Finrosforum has translated and posted the opinion article/open letter by the dissident journalist Alexander Podrabinek, which eventually prompted death threats and harassment by the Nashi, driving him into hiding. One does not need to blame the ow...
The most dramatic account I’ve ever seen about the shooting of Paul Joyal (he did survive, and often shows up at Washington DC-area events on Russia), who was a producer on NBC Dateline’s story to report on the murder of Alexander Litv...
TODAY: Russia keeps its voting rights in Council of Europe; Lavrov says Russia wants unbiased discussions about human rights; French Foreign Minister argues Russia flouting ceasefire; Israeli diplomat makes swift exit; UK Foreign Secretary visit t...
The BBC interviews Sergei Kuznetsov, who originally organized the arts contest arranged around the second Khodorkovsky trial. Click here and here to see some of the works produced so far.
RFE/RL interviews Pavel Khodorkovsky, the 24-year-old son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as he participated in against Russia’s holding of political prisoners on Times Square in New York City: “I think that at the time my father was rather i...
I think it says quite a lot about the freedom of press situation in Russia when a reporter is just as likely to face violence and threats for reporting about the past as they are for muckraking some contemporary politician for corruption, or anoth...
If you can find 20 minutes to spare, Parag Khanna’s presentation at this year’s TED conference has some thought provoking moments. Among them: 2:45 – 6:00 – a discussion of the China-Mongolia-Russia space and how the de fac...
Sorry for the light posting yesterday – I wanted to give everybody time to heft their way through the Taglivini report. Let’s see if we can make up for yesterday today. Here is a subtitled interview of Andrei Illarionov out...
TODAY: EU Russia-Georgia report out! Tilted towards blame on Georgia; Russia claims vindication on who started it issue; denies report’s accusations of Moscow violating international laws; PR machines crank up on both sides. PACE to vo...
Unless you have been living under a rock, everybody knows all about the very big deal being made out of this very big European Union report headed up by Swiss diplomat Heidi Taglivini (she must have drawn a very short straw for this job) looking i...
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