From Michael Weiss’s very interesting review of Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge (1890-1947) published in Democratiya: At his worst, Serge was too dismissive during the Civil War of the misfit intellectuals who ‘wept for their dream o...
As some of us feared, the judge presiding over the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has rejected the first four motions brought by defense lawyers without explanation on the first day of the proceedings. The most important of these motio...
During his inauguration speech, U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear that his government would take a clean slate approach to international relations, with the goal of opening up dialogue with countries with whom relations had soured under th...
New Khodorkovsky Trial Presents Test for Medvedev (Bloomberg) “In this trial we’re dealing with a president who has attacked the very legal nihilism that we identified in the first trial,” Robert Amsterdam said in London today in...
The building of a “new economic architecture” and a counterweight to NATO doesn’t happen overnight, and despite the doldrums and credit crisis, the Kremlin is still hobbling towards its goals in the East. Have both Washinto...
The Jamestown Foundation looks into Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov’s recent trip to Moldova, the first such visit by any Russian official since 2001, when Vladimir Voronin was elected president. Voronin has long been a tho...
If you haven’t already heard, an anonymous source has leaked details of a ‘secret letter‘ Obama sent to President Medvedev last month, in which he offered to stop development of a controversial missile shield in Eastern Eur...
TODAY: Obama offers to drop missile defense plans in exchange for Russia’s help on Iran; Khodorkovsky hearing begins today; regional elections ‘a small, uninteresting show’; more power struggle speculation; youths protest Georgia...
As the first preliminary hearing of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is being held on Tuesday in Moscow, I have been fielding a number of calls from reporters seeking to understand the context and perspective of the defense. For thos...
He tripped and fell on my knife. Eight times… Grigory Pasko, journalist A few weeks ago… The editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Solnechnogorsky forum”, 72-year-old Yuri Grachev, about whom it had recently been reported...
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