This just came over the wire from RIA Novosti, and was also reported earlier on Robert Amsterdam’s Twitter feed: Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky accused Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday of listening in on his...
One of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook is the subtle theft of the people’s sovereignty, grafting the rights of citizens onto a regime of personal power. Cuba’s Fidel Castro was and is the grandmaster of this tactic R...
KGB methods are back in action Grigory Pasko, journalist Echo Moskvy and Kasparov.Ru are both reporting a story about an attempt by an FSB officer to “recruit” a student and opposition activist at Moscow State University, threatening t...
Fraser Cameron, the director of the EU-Russia Centre, has a good opinion column in the Moscow Times today taking a look at the various “carrots” available to Europe to improve relations in Russia, as they meet for their Summit today wa...
Irina Filatova has a new comment piece over on the Guardian about Dmitry Medvedev’s formation of a new commission to fight back against the “falsification” of history. She points out that despite some seemingly noble endeav...
I’d like to highlight the following extract from commenter Ashepe: What is it like to be a Russian in Ukraine? How many of them see anything other than what Russian TV tells them? Are the seeds of future civil wars being sown? Wouldn’t...
CNN’s Eye on Russia series keeps churning out the good stuff… Richard Quest did not hesitate to question Alexander Medvedev directly on the use of Gazprom as a political weapon. See the latest evasive maneuvers below. Embed...
SCO summit against a background of torture Grigory Pasko, journalist I recently visited Yekaterinburg. The city is literally flooded with police in reflective vests. The word «security» is heard time and again on the streets. On the television, al...
More than a few conspiracy-minded observers like to talk about a big evil plan in the Kremlin to recreate the Soviet Union and annex its neighbors. The goal, they say, is to swallow up more territory and power while toppling any independent ...
CNN is currently doing an “Eye on Russia” series, with lots of interesting short videos posted online. Below is an interview with billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, conducted with a full team of helmeted industrial technicians at com...
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