Irina Fet and Irina Shipitko are a lesbian couple looking to change public perceptions in Russia by succeeding in getting the country’s first legal gay marriage … however the latest court decision has swiftly dismissed their request.&n...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Vadim Klyuvgant, the lead trial lawyer in the Khodorkovsky case, points out that as long as there are cases of abuse like those of Antonio Valdez-Garcia and Vasily Aleksanyan, the plea bargain changes to Russia’s...
TODAY: Iran uranium plan waiting to be concluded; Russia backs Serbia on Kosovo; Lavrov exit denied; Ingushetian cabinet out. Ex-US Yukos unit to launch mammoth lawsuit; picketed journalist gets unlikely defender; UN says Russia should impro...
From that ever-fascinating world of academic studies on Russia-Chinese relations comes a new report of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Author Geir Flikke spent the summer of 2009 with a research grant from Norway’s Mi...
I’ve already written on this blog that I think it’s great that Mikhail Prokhorov is going to buy the New Jersey Nets NBA team, and invest himself in the success of Brooklyn. Writing in the Daily News, Alexander Nazaryan raises so...
This comes from a book review published in the Financial Times of Humphrey Hawksley’s latest, Democracy Kills: What’s So Good About Having the Vote? Funny how we always see Russia as the case study most often cited as why develop...
TODAY: Lavrov keeps eagle eye on Georgia; Netanyahu’s fears about Russian rogue scientists; Chubais takes the fall for hydropower plant disaster. Litvinenko widow despairs over apparent British moves towards rapprochement. Luzhko...
Recently at the House of Journalists in Moscow a book launch event was held by Igor Sutyagin – who is well known not only as a fellow of the USA and Canada Institute, but also as one of Russia’s most famous political prisoners, after g...
Paul Goble has a good report summarizing an argument from Vadim Dubnov published in Gazeta.ru about Russia’s business of politics – how having so many officials with multi-million dollar business interests creates, well, conflicts of i...
Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post has a new column which digs up a number of quotes from American officials over the years which illustrate how often they have been willing to assume a certain level of rational thinking going on inside the Kremlin...
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