“Putin is a crook! Putin is a crook!” the protesters chanted half heartedly. Journalists caught up to Viktor Biryukov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department in Moscow for Interaction with Civil Society, by the base of the Karl Marx monument. Biryukov was busy trying to deflect a flood of criticism from civil society...

About a million people are languishing in jails and prison camps in Russia. In this new series, however, we will turn the spotlight not on those on the inside, but on those on the outside waiting for them. What happens to the wives in the...

Thursday, 4 October, at 3 p.m. local time the mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni opened the piazza after Anna Politkovskaya in the largest and nicest park of the city named Villa Pamfili. While being official, the ceremony was warm and humane....