[Long time readers may recall several long series of investigative reports from our correspondent Grigory Pasko about the controversial Nord Stream gas pipeline project over the past two years. As we have *reported earlier*, Grigory has also shot ...
The former dissident, author, and famous democracy activist Natan Sharansky has published a short article after visiting Russia this week, in which he calls upon the Kremlin to “free Khodorkovsky now.” Sharansky talks with human ...
The following by-lined article by Robert Amsterdam was published in the latest edition of The Diplomat magazine, pages 23-24. Download a PDF here. A Trial that Should Not Be Happening International lawyer Robert Amsterdam on his defence of M...
We had reported the news a while back about a Russian ice cream company using a potentially offensive portrayal of U.S. President Barack Obama in its advertisements, but this is the first video of the ad I have come across.
Got a financial crisis on your hands? Why not whip up a moral panic by accusing the United States of spying on state television to distract every one? Seems to be going pretty well for Hugo Chavez, so why not Russia? From the Associate...
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Germany, ALDE), rapporteur on behalf of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, has made the following statement during a fact-finding trip to Moscow to o...
It has been a while since we have blogged about ye ‘ole energy struggle between the Austrian company OMV and the Hungarian company MOL, which last year seemed to be on the cusp of blowing up into a major dispute over minority shareholder rig...
This one comes from the Economist: BIG changes in Russian political life are often ushered in by trials. The first show trial of the Shakhty engineers in 1928 paved the way for Stalin’s consolidation of power in 1929. The 1935-36 trials of K...
Here is a weird one from a NYTimes blog: In Russia last week, two mothers were ordered by the courts to exchange the two-year-old boys whom they had each raised from birth but who did not belong to them. A nurse — the only one on duty in the...
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