March 28 2011, №32

Politics

The main international confrontation of the XXI century is between hydrocarbon despotisms and pipeline democracies.

The Kremlin’s natural gas policy has undergone a massive change since the time of the economic crisis. Instead of threatening to unleash its “energy weapon”, the Kremlin has started selling gas assets, and instead of striving to conquer...

Yulia Latynina, Columnist

Putin and Mongol

Court hearings in the case of the murder of wild sheep were again postponed in the Altai Region on 23 March. The animals, which are on the endangered species list, were being hunted by a group in a helicopter, which then crashed, killing...

Alexei Tarasov

Diplomatic Panic

The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York has engaged us in a discussion, bypassing the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow, which is very unusual. It is...

Pavel Felgengauer, Observer

“I’ve been sentenced to life in prison. I am being forced to write denunciations in connection with other high-profile crimes and to give false testimony against innocent people. I want to tell you how murders and terrorist attacks are really solved.”

Hello, I’ve been sentenced to life in prison. I pleaded not guilty during the preliminary investigation and in court, for which I got an internal brain injury, an eye wound that made me blind in my left eye and the right eye has 10%...

How is the Belarusian opposition getting along?

Minsk in January and Minsk in March are two completely different cities. Back then, Minsk was surviving on hope. Now Minsk has been inundated with despair and consternation. Court proceedings are underway, while searches, interrogations...

Elena Kostyuchenko