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Report Critical of Putin Reaches Wide Audience
A new survey indicates that a Putin-critical report by opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov has already been read by as many as two million Russian citizens.
Jul 29, 2010 | Continued
Pro-Kremlin Youth Equate Rights Leaders with Nazis
An outdoor installation set up by a pro-Kremlin youth group depicting Russian civil rights leaders as Nazis has drawn derision and outrage from within Russian civil society.
Jul 28, 2010 | Continued
Esquire Magazine: Sochi’s Olympic Road as Caviar
Russian Esquire calculates how much caviar could be bought for the $8 billion being spent on single road for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi – and what a road paved with that much caviar would look like.
Jul 13, 2010 | Continued
No Extremism Found in ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’
An anti-Putin report has been officially declared to be free of extremism, and opposition leaders distributing the report have been given authorization to get back 100,000 confiscated copies of the document.
Jul 2, 2010 | Continued
26-Year-Old Journalist Found Dead in Moscow Apartment (updated)
The body of Russian journalist Dmitri Okkert was found with more than thirty knife wounds in his Moscow apartment on Friday morning. An investigation is currently underway.
Jun 25, 2010 | Continued
Russian Gov’t ‘Not Interested’ in Addressing Torture
A group of experts say that the use of torture is so widespread throughout Russia’s penitentiary and and law enforcement agencies that it has become a norm that the government is not interested in addressing.
Jun 23, 2010 | Continued
Anti-Putin Report Will Be Distributed ‘All Over Country’
Opposition leaders succeeded in handing out 2000 samizdat copies of ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’ in St. Petersburg despite the fact that police had already confiscated 200 thousand copies of the controversial report.
Jun 21, 2010 | Continued
Sochi Gov’t Reaches Deal with Hunger Strikers
Residents facing eviction in Sochi have ended a 24-day hunger strike after local authorities agreed to address their concerns.
Jun 18, 2010 | Continued
Medics Charged in Vera Trifonova’s Death
Federal investigators are charging medical workers with negligent homicide in the death of Moscow businesswoman Vera Trifonova, after a medical investigation established that a forgotten catheter caused her death.
Jun 14, 2010 | Continued
Russian Police Launch Manhunt for ‘Primorskie Partisans’
Police have launched a massive search for the so-called “Primorskie Partisans,” a group that has spoken out against police corruption and in late May began a series of physical attacks on police officers.
Jun 10, 2010 | Continued