May

31

Other Russia’s Sugar Daddy

May 31, 2007 | 6 Comments

Russophile brought my attention to the following news from the Financial Times. Arch Putin enemy oligarch Boris Berezovsky admitted in an interview with FT reporter Jimmy Burns that he is indeed funding Other Russia. Don’t believe it? Listen to the audio file yourself. Russophile is right, Borya just doesn’t get it. […]

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May

31

Russia Ranked 117th in Global Peace Index

May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

How peaceful is your country? Now thanks to the Global Peace Index you can find out. An organization called the Vision of Humanity, which believes that “unless we can achieve a world which is basically peaceful, then the major challenges facing humanity will not be solved,” has released its index of 121 […]

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May

31

Gorbachev on Putin (and More)

May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments

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May

31

It was MI6 in the Library with the Candlestick

May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

Andrei Lugovoi promised a “sensation for public opinion in Britain” and delivered. Lugovoi said in a Moscow news conference, “Today I would like to make an announcement, which should shed some light on this dark political story, where the main roles were played by the British secret service and their agents Berezovsky and the […]

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May

29

Russia’s Bases Abroad

May 29, 2007 | 88 Comments

A Google News search for the phrase “resurgent Russia” brings up some rather interesting results. The phrase is used in numerous articles, many of which have titles like “Putin Thumbs Nose at West,” “US ready to ‘push back’ against Russia: official,” and “Why Tensions With Russia Endure”. Not to mention the number of […]

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May

28

More OMONarama

May 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

The eXile’s Alexander Zaitchik gives his account of OMON’s May 10th showcase to the media. Here’s a taste:

If you saw any of the next-day press accounts of the OMON event, you know it was no normal press conference. It was a well-choreographed martial arts and machine gun extravaganza that left ears ringing […]

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May

26

Russian Journalists Building Solidarity

May 26, 2007 | 175 Comments

The bleakness of Russian media is often citied as one of the clearest examples of Putin’s creeping authoritarianism. State control of television, its concentration under fewer and fewer corporations, the harassment and murder of journalists, police raids of media NGOs, newspaper and journal offices, evicting the Union of Russian Journalists from their offices, instituting […]

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May

24

Resolutions, Prophecies, and Videotape

May 24, 2007 | 6 Comments

The comedy that is the Alexandr Litvinenko murder case took yet another turn to the absurd yesterday when the US House of Representatives began looking a resolution that calls on Russia to fully cooperate with Britain. Apparently, the mighty Empire feels that Russia should extradite Andrei Lugovoi even though the Russian Constitution forbids extradition. […]

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May

24

State of the "State of the World’s Human Rights"

May 24, 2007 | 39 Comments

Amnesty International has released its annual “State of the World’s Human Rights.” The report documents and evaluates the status of human rights around the world, providing regional and individual country reports. The report is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

In the report’s forward, Irene Khan, Amnesty’s Secretary General, […]

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May

23

Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case

May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It didn’t take long for someone to benefit from charging Andrei Lugovoi for Litvinenko’s murder. The documentary Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case is slated to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. According to the film’s director, Andrei Nekrasov, who is also a friend of Litvinenko, the documentary will “give audiences an insight […]

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