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

The President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev sits down with Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov

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Who sacked you? The Kremlin Personnel Department? Nobody ever sacked me. There is not even an entry in my work record to the effect. I have not been dismissed from my post as General Secretary of the CC CPSU. I just stopped working. I made...

NG: Mr Lebedev and Mr Khodorkovsky, thank you for finding some spare time. Lebedev (laughs): Well, it’s certainly something we have a lot of. NG: Then let’s get to it. An article published before Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was dismissed...

In an interview with the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the President of Russia talked about well-being and freedom, the elections in Sochi, the Yukos case, independent voters, censorship on the Internet and the “rehabilitation of democracy”....