Archive for R J
$33.8 Billion Required to Save Monotowns
Russia’s Ministry for Regional Development is estimating that about $33.8 billion would be required to modernize one hundred of the country’s struggling single-industry towns.
Mar 10, 2010 | Continued
Moscow Traffic Cops Create Unwitting Human Shield
The Moscow highway patrol has allegedly used civilian vehicles, including one carrying a pregnant woman, as human shields in an attempt to catch armed criminals.
Mar 9, 2010 | Continued
Dymovsky Released from Detention Center
Russia’s whistleblowing ‘YouTube Cop,’ Aleksei Dymovsky, has been released from a Krasnodar detention center, although not before prison guards took what the former officer called “some small measure of revenge.”
Mar 8, 2010 | Continued
Activists Call for Police Rights Together With Reform
Activists at a rally in Moscow called both for Russia’s law enforcement to undergo drastic reform and for police officers to be given higher salaries and better rights.
Mar 7, 2010 | Continued
Train Bombing Perpetrator Identified, Killed in Raid
The Russian Federal Security Service is saying that it has identified the perpetrator of a train bombing late last year that killed 26 people traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
Mar 6, 2010 | Continued
Kaliningrad Rally Organizers Form New Coalition
Leaders from a variety of opposition groups that took part in a recent massive rally in Kaliningrad have formed a new coalition intent on ending the political monopoly held by United Russia.
Mar 4, 2010 | Continued
Ekho Moskvy Bans Song Critical of Lukoil VP
Ekho Moskvy, considered to be one of Russia’s only uncensored news sources, has clamped down on a host’s attempt to play a song criticizing a high-level oil executive suspected of killing two women in a car crash last month.
Mar 3, 2010 | Continued
Luzhkov Promises Moscow Will See More of Stalin
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov says that as an admirer of objective history, he plans from now on to use pictures of Josef Stalin in various celebrations put on by the city.
Mar 3, 2010 | Continued
Murderer of Ingush Oppositionist Gets 2 Years House Arrest
In a new court decision handed down Tuesday, the murderer of Ingush oppositionst Magomed Yevloyev will now only have to spend two years under house arrest, as opposed time in a penal colony.
Mar 2, 2010 | Continued
Irkutsk Ecologists Harassed by Center “E” for Protesting
An organization of Russian ecologists protesting the reopening of a toxic paper mill say that they are being harassed by police from the notoriously brutal Center for Extremism Prevention.
Mar 1, 2010 | Continued