Shaun Walker of the Independent is not impressed by President Dmitry Medvedev’s statements about rule of law and the murder of Natalia Estemirova. From Russia Profile: Indeed, all that has changed, it would seem, since Medvedev has com...
TODAY: Biden reassures Ukraine that Russia-US reset a benefit for all; Minsk and Moscow sparring again over meat and diesel. UN human rights activists seek entry to Russia. Medvedev backs ethics/religious education in schools; post to be ope...
With no real functioning courts in Russia, apart for the celebrated practice of the show trial, the legal systems of London and Strasbourg find themselves choked with business disputes and human rights cases. The Financial Times has a new pi...
I am interested and confused by this article in the Moscow Times by the Kremlin polittechnologist Yevgeny Bashanov. Obama spoke to Russian leaders as equals in a manner befitting the leaders of sovereign states. The U.S. president could not behave...
From Der Spiegel: In response to the outrage the Estemirova murder triggered abroad, Kadyrov, seemingly with utter conviction, announced that the “terrible crime” would be swiftly investigated and said he would personally see to it tha...
This is quite an interesting observation from PoliGazette: At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed president...
TODAY: Georgia hoping for US backing on monitoring against ‘enemy’ Russia, promises reforms in advance of Biden’s arrival. Medvedev asserts arms talks to continue with US; CIS summit sign of waning influence? Medvedev...
Catherine Belton has just published an article in the Financial Times which features a first-time interview with the former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov revealing “a closed-door conversation he claims he had with Vladimir Putin in which t...
What does the closing of a large Moscow flea market have in common with a fake tax evasion case-slash-state takeover scheme of an oil company? Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is at the center of both them, revealing, what some sources in m...
As some of you have probably read in the news, this week my fellow citizens and I woke up to a new Russia, under even greater control by the inheritants of the KGB. As initially reported by Newsru.com, “beginning on the 21st of July, l...
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