William Browder of Hermitage Capital Management, the victim of a considerable state theft by the Russian government, is upping the ante in his fight to bring attention to the flagrant corruption and abuses of office currently taking place in the K...
While my editor was busily working away yesterday, Ariel Cohen had an opinion piece run in the New York Times. Upon seeing the headline and lede, I was worried that we were going to see yet another one of those “there’s a rift be...
TODAY: Upbeat feeling ahead of Clinton visit; dates confirmed; nuclear on the agenda. Flights of US supplies to Afghanistan commence; bilateral ties with China to be strengthened by flurry of deals. Stalin’s grandson’s Novaya Gaz...
TODAY: Politkovskaya tributes – persistence and pessimism; sectioned rights activist to take case to Strasbourg court; United Russia demands Kremlin human rights council apology on Nashi. Lavrov positive on new missile defense plan; Vi...
I recently found myself at a rather uneventful conference near the border of the world’s newest nation – at least in the eyes of the Kremlin as well as two other Latin American statesmen with high degrees of interest and knowledge of t...
It’s hard to know what to think of the latest cabinet shuffle in Dmitry Medvedev’s Kremlin – it certainly falls short of the kind of blockbuster moves like Putin used to pull which would keep us talking for weeks (everybody remem...
K. Anthony Appiah of Princeton University and PEN American has an op/ed on the Politkovskaya anniversary published in the Washington Post today: Russia no longer needs gulags to silence the opposition. The punishment for drawing attention to the s...
Reporters without Borders, an international press freedom watchdog group, has been suddenly and unexpectedly stripped of their travel visas to attend an event to honor Anna Politkovskaya and screen a new documentary. I first caught this news...
Memorial, fresh on the heels of an insulting lawsuit from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadryrov, holds a rally to commemorate slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya today: Hundreds of people are rallying in Moscow on the third anniversary of the killing of ...
TODAY: Third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya; Kadyrov wins his lawsuit against Memorial, launches another. Gay marriage bid rejected; critical posters displayed around Moscow. Medvedev gets his new speech writer; no in...
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