Media
Russian Deputies Try to Ban LOLspeak
Russian lawmakers are working on new measures to combat the spread of internet-slang into daily life.
May 2, 2009 | Continued
Online News Agency May Be Closed Over Forum Comments
The Ura.ru information portal is in danger of being closed after investigators found extremism in comments left on its online forum.
Apr 24, 2009 | Continued
Russian Authorities Try to Close Kirov Newspaper Over One Word
Authorities in Kirov are pressing to close a local independent publication, the Vyatskaya Osobaya Gazeta, after the paper published an article mentioning the banned National Bolshevik Party.
Apr 24, 2009 | Continued
Russian Film Director Recants After Anti-Government Comment
Russian film director Fyodor Bondarchuk got the Russian internet buzzing by asserting that Russia was descending into totalitarianism. Two days later, he was denying everything.
Apr 17, 2009 | Continued
Medvedev Gives First Interview to Opposition Paper
In a move that surprised some Russia-watchers, President Dmitri Medvedev gave his first newspaper interview to Novaya Gazeta, famous for its investigative journalism and open criticism of authorities.
Apr 15, 2009 | Continued
Russian Journalist in Grave Condition After Attack
Vadim Rogozhin, the managing director of a media holding company in the south-Russian city of Saratov, is in critical condition after being attacked on the evening of March 5th.
Mar 7, 2009 | Continued
Russia Reviving Stalin, Downplaying Past -Scholar
A renowned Russia scholar has accused the Kremlin of trying to reshape Stalin’s image, and pressing his publisher not to release a book about daily life under the Soviet dictator.
Mar 5, 2009 | Continued
Russian Journalists Step Out to Support Shuttered Newspaper
Local journalists in several Russian regions have taken to the streets to support the Tambovsky Meridian newspaper. The Russian postal service refused to deliver and sell the paper after it ran an article questioning regional authorities.
Feb 10, 2009 | Continued
Putin Keeping Good Company
It may come a few years too late, but the mainstream western media is finally acknowledging what their elected leaders still prefer to ignore: Vladimir Putin is no more a democratically elected leader than Robert Mugabe or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Jan 30, 2009 | Continued
Vladivostok Opposition Newspaper’s Offices Destroyed by Fire
One person has died as result of a fire at the offices of the Arsenevskie Vesti opposition newspaper in Vladivostok.
Jan 4, 2009 | Continued