Politics
While in Russia the state has become the managing and directing force in economy quite long ago, the rest of developing and developed countries have been dealing with such a metamorphosis for just a few weeks. Financial and other kinds of...
On Friday 4th November Dmitry Medvedev introduced a package of bills intended to struggle with corruption: the basic one titled “On Opposing The Corruption”, some amendments to the Act On Government of Russia, and 25 amendments to federal...
In relation to the financial crisis affecting the country’s economy, the Russian authorities are sending amazingly contradicting messages to the society. Some officials say confidently that this is the crisis beyond the sea that is to be...
On Tuesday the leader of LDPR came to a meeting with the top person in the country, being an ordinary leader of a Duma’s faction, and left the presidential office in a capacity of the main expert for corruption. It has been many to receive...
Investigations
Igor was killed 8 years ago. The killers, the members of Tagiryanovskaya gang, who executed this paid murder, were sentenced, while the organizer and mediator were not. The editorial board of Novaya Gazeta has the names of people involved...
Society
On 5 October, on his own birthday, the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov signed the decree about re-naming the Victory Avenue after V.V.Putin. “The role by Vladimir Putin cannot be overestimated within the story of relations of Chechen and...
On 2nd anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder a silent commemoration manifestation was held near the Russian Embassy on Tehtaankatu Street. The organizers of the action were the Finnish Branch of Amnesty International, Finnish Pen...
Despite pouring rain, those remembering Anna Politkovskaya were present at Novopushkinsky square. “We expected no more than 20 people to come with such weather, and it’s 300 hundred to have come” expressed their surprise the OMON officers...
On Memory day commemorating Anna Politkovskaya, St Petersburg’s dwellers get together traditionally on Troizkaya Square, in the city’s heart, near the Solovetsky Stone, laid in commemoration of victims of political repressions. The...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “He’s just afraid of competition”
When Putin says that he “never does his friends in,” this is because he is afraid to get on the wrong side of the siloviki who are close to him. From the correspondence between the editors and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inmate of Correctional Facility 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, the city of Segezha
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