Some thoughts on the trial Grigory Pasko, journalist At the trial in the case of the theft of all the oil in Russia, they are reading the text of the bill of indictment – 14 volumes of 300 pages apiece. I’m familiar with this: both wit...
Russia is well known to go back-and-forth in its relations with Iran, both in terms of delivering the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system as well as assisting on nuclear energy. One day it’s all green light, and the next, it’s put...
Remember Natalia Morari (Morar)? She was once one of Russia’s most intrepid young investigative journalists, working for the news magazine the New Times. She uncovered a few blockbuster stories about connections between an Austri...
This letter to the editor of the Financial Times points out Moldova’s strong linguistic connection to Romania – and the hangover of a Stalinist myth that the country belonged in the Soviet sphere of influence at least from a cultural p...
A friend at a major news outlet has forwarded me a news brief from Solidarnost and United Civic Front leader Garry Kasparov on the rapidly rising number of violent attacks against opposition members in recent weeks. In just ten days, three m...
From a Washington Post editorial: IT’S BEEN nearly a year since Dmitry Medvedev took office as Russia’s president following a much-publicized vow to attack what he called the “legal nihilism” of his country. His record so f...
Paul Goble of Window on Eurasia, a former State Department official and scholar (see a bio on his newly syndicated column on the Moscow Times), discusses how the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky should be viewed from a rule of law perspective....
Having foreign investors can be a bit of an annoyance. If you send the secret police to their offices to demand all the personal details of their clients, there is a possibility they will refuse, and cite international law and privacy rights...
The surprising outbreak of student protests, destruction, and violence in the streets of Chisinau against the recent election victory of the ruling Communists under Vladimir Voronin is not anything close to resembling anything like the other ̶...
An editorial in The New York Times focuses on President Dmitry Medvedev’s increasingly visible silence on human rights issues such as the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Nor has he reacted to the farcical new charges against Mikhail Kh...
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