The following is an extract from the Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov White Paper, as translated over on La Russophobe: The closed, authoritarian and corrupt mode of government created by Putin has turned out to be impotent when it comes to dealin...
From VOA: The head of Russia’s For Human Rights organization, Lev Ponomarev, told VOA that Khodorkovsky’s imprisonment had a chilling effect on criticism by businesses of the Kremlin. Ponomarev says Russia’s entire business commu...
What better way to symbolize Russia’s global reach than through Rosneft, which has been named a top tier sponsor for the 2014 Olympic Games. “We are very happy to win the right to be a Sochi 2014 partner,” Rosneft president Segre...
In light of the AFP story today, we are re-posting Grigory Pasko’s interview of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s former cellmate, Denis Yurinsky, from April 27, 2007. Good to see the mainstream media finally getting around to talking with ...
Today AFP is running a story on an interview given by a former Mikhail Khodorkovsky prison work supervisor to Kommersant-Vlast magazine, in which he declares the attempt to frame the former head of Yukos for sexual assault was “complete nons...
The importance of Central Asia in Russian geopolitics has been clear for some time, but perhaps it took the Manas debacle to bring America up to speed. Next in line for Russia’s, ahem, beneficence may be Tajikistan, a resource-rich strategic...
TODAY: Communists gather 2,000 supporters; the precariousness of the armed forces; could base closure spell trouble for Russia? Eyes watching for any militarization of the Arctic. Belarus and the EU; World Chechnya Day.The Communist Party reported...
Despite Vladimir Putin’s acknowledged position as one of the world’s more right-wing leaning leaders in the world, many individuals on the opposite side of the political spectrum often seem eager to manufacture excuses, apologies, and ...
Strobe Talbott, who hasn’t been writing as much about Russia since fending off allegations made in spy’s memoir, has a new piece in the Financial Times which makes a Kissinger-esque argument for the growing area mutual interests and po...
We’ve seen quite a lot of grist thrown into the rumor mill that Crimea, Ukraine, is next on the Kremlin’s annexation list following the relatively easy seizure of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. However this piece by Joshua Kucera ov...
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