Video: The Return of Propaganda Films
CNN’s Matthew Chance has a segment about up the propaganda documentary blaming the Olympic war on Georgia.Embedded video from CNN Video
Russia
Extorting the Victims of Beslan
Another one of those feel good stories from the LiveJournal of Vladimir Varfolomeyev, our exclusive translation to English. The State is demanding money from former hostages in Beslan ВВ’s ЖЖ – The “Live journal” of Vladimi...
Gazprom is California Dreaming
We’ve been carefully following Gazprom’s efforts to break into the U.S. market for several years now, but they don’t seem to be getting anywhere closer. Despite opening a trading office in Houston and holding vague talks wi...
Eni’s Undermining of Human Rights with Gazprom Neft Sale
Robert Amsterdam is quoted by the American Lawyer blog about the controversy behind the sale of Gazprom Neft assets, which were allegedly illegally seized from Yukos and then sold in a rigged auction to the Italian energy group Eni, only to be pas...
Moscow’s Failures in Moldova
An interesting take on the events in Chisinau from the Moscow Times, looking at why the Moldovans haven’t been looking East for help during this political crisis: But what should worry the Kremlin is not the threat of a similar uprising at h...
Fujimori’s Conviction Sends Message to Autocrats
Thousands of miles away from Russia, where the judicial farce otherwise known as the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is playing out, there is another case which gives one much greater optimism for the advance of international legal precedent:...
Remember Who is in Charge
Today we are seeing some more token signs from President Dmitry Medvedev that he is independent of Vladimir Putin – this time with a stern warning to the United Russia party about the appointment of regional governors. It is more diffi...
The Tip of a Nasty Iceberg
Dmitry Sidorov, the Washington DC-based bureau chief of Kommersant, has an opinion article today in Forbes about the frequent harrassment, threats, and violence against independent journalists in Russia, especially those working for Novaya Gazeta ...
The Depopulation Bomb
What scares the Kremlin the most? Missile shields? NATO encroachment? Development of Iranian gas or the unstoppable growth of China? Or perhaps the renewed popularity of an American president, which makes the all the spoili...
Robert Amsterdam Interview in El País
The following interview with Robert Amsterdam on the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was published on Monday on page six of El País, Spain’s largest national daily newspaper. Interview: Robert Amsterdam, international legal counsel to Mikhail ...
