Several news outlets are reporting that a Russian court today has granted parole to the former Yukos lawyer, political prisoner, and mother of three Svetlana Bakhmina. Here is an excerpt from the Moscow Times: The Preobrazhensky District Cou...
The news is already being reported by AFP, the AP, and the BBC. Below is his full statement to the court, as well as some of the slides he presented which show that the charges brought by the prosecutors fail to demonstrate any criminal act....
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Petersen Institute for International Economics, to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Russia affairs. In this exclusive interview segment, Åslund d...
This one comes from Lex over at FT.com … also see recent commentary on Russia’s debt problems from Yulia Latynina. Russian banks do not have the same US subprime-related toxic assets that laid low US and west European counterparts and ...
The Associated Press has a story running today about the release of a new human rights report by Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, which focuses on the 28,000 complaints filed for alleged misconduct by the police. On the one hand, it is very interes...
There is an interesting op/ed in today’s Moscow Times by Michael Bohm, which disputes some that the goals of Strategy 2020 require no readjustment given the damage caused by the economic crisis. Naturally, our eyes our drawn to Bohm...
I just took a short globalization quiz over on Foreign Policy, and I saw the following question: #4. After China and the United States, which country emits the most carbon dioxide?a) Brazilb) Indiac) Russia I don’t mean to spoil the fun, but...
George Will seems to be testing some new comedic material in one of his latest columns, bruising the Obama administration over making a priority of getting a nukes treaty with Russia. He calls Dmitry Medvedev a “human potemkin village&...
This New York Times piece has been making the rounds this weekend, pointing out, for those who didn’t already know, that Mikheil Saakashvili and Vladimir Putin don’t get along all that well. But the highly emotional angle between...
I just caught this post over at Heritage about the back-and-forth over NATO exercises in Georgia. It seems that the opposition protests which have seized the capital have provided a nice cover for the Russians to begin making some movements....
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