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Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation reports that “from April 29 through May 3, Russia sent additional troops to Georgia’s Abkhazia region on the pretense of ‘peacekeeping’ and ostensibly on behalf of the Commonwealth of...
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Meet Russian lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina and her two young children. Arrested on December 8, 2004, she was sentenced to six years in prison for being associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. His crime? He dared to consider challenging Vladimir Putin for...
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In a devastating report, the Times of London exposes the horrifying excesses of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which begins to look just like Tsarist Russia of the last century in terms of the massive chasm between rich and poor, which led to the...
My latest essay on the Pajamas Media blog exposes the many ways in which Russian preparation to host the 2014 Winter Olympics has resulted in total failure that could end in Russia’s divestment from the games. Given the proximity of the site to...
Freedom House has released it’s 2008 report on worldwide press freedom. The United States ranks #21 on the list (classified as “free”) , while Russia ranks an appalling #170, tied with Kazakhstan, Sudan and Yemen and more repressive...
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Meet Boris Nemtsov.
From March 1997 to August 1998, he was former Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s deputy prime minister for energy. Nemtsov made a name for himself when he led a protest action in Soviet Russia in 1986, at the age of 27, to...
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Once again, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has refused to allow homosexuals to conduct an annual “gay pride” parade in his city, yet another sign of Russia’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and the rise of dictatorship there.
Two months ago, Human Rights Watch published a 75-page white paper reviewing the effect of a 2006 Russian enactment known as the “Law on Extremism.” Just as civil rights activists warned at that time, the law has been used, as HRW...
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It’s nearly three decades now since Russian soldiers were massing on the boarder of Afghanistan and then invading. Now, Russia is threatening to invade Georgia in order to annex its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Georgia...
Russia is not required to give freedoms to other religions because Russia is not the United States. People here differ from Americans. I’m not talking about right of a person to have freedom of belief. I mean, instead, the right of an organization...
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