In a particularly gruesome and shocking act, pranksters allegedly from the Young Guard (the Nashi-like youth group linked to United Russia) sent a strong message this weekend by dumping 20 or so dead and dying sheep wearing Solidarity t-shirts rig...
TODAY: Duma to extend definition of treason; grassroots protests succeed on car duty; analyst predicts 2009 will see Putin return to the Kremlin; ultra-nationalists, military reforms, Iran.The State Duma is in the process of widening the definitio...
Below we’ve got another exclusive translation from RBK Daily, which our regular readers understand is almost amusingly pro-government news source from Russia which at times can help glean insights into Kremlin thinking. According to th...
Recently, my German acquaintance phoned and asked how people in Russia are weathering the crisis. I replied: they tell each other jokes. He, apparently, did not understand. I will explain in this article. Inasmuch as there aren’t so many own...
File this one under “caught red handed.” The Kremlin might take note that they shouldn’t have their spies posing as “independent South Ossetian activists” hiring elite public relations firms. From the Asso...
Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting on Siemens $528.3 million bribery settlement with German authorities, while the claim with U.S. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is now underway. Anyone still curious where the majority of th...
There’s been a lot coverage recently of these outbreaks of violence from Russian nationalists directed toward migrants and foreigners – a trend that some say is passively tolerated by the state. Though the loss of jobs caused by ...
Back in the days when I was studying the lost science of Sovietology, every year the Soviet newspapers would boast of record harvests that had overfulfilled the plan, while the reality was much grimmer. Even if the numbers weren’t doctored, ...
In commemoration (or perhaps, in mourning) of this weekend’s anniversary of the Russian constitution, we offer an exclusive translation from human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov from RuleofLaw.ru. Don’t Read this Book By Stanislav Ma...
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