Last Thursday, Pavel Stroilov presented a piece that alleged I had been paid to publish articles in the Independent, and that I published on the instructions of its owner. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes Mary Dejevsky.
Mary Dejevsky was surprised when her enthusiastic profile of St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko in Britain’s The Independent newspaper elicited strong criticism from Russia’s blogosphere. Dmitri Travin’s response on openDemocracy Russia questioned her knowledge of the Russian political s
Russia's democracy activists are surely an unimpeachable cause, deserving all the moral and financial support they can get. They face all manner of obstacles.
Mary Dejevsky is a
A chill can be felt in Moscow, and it is not just the early arrival of autumn. After months of convincing themselves that it is not going to happen, Russians
The demographic crisis has become one of the clichés in discussion about post-Soviet Russia. And it is true that the population is shrinking, wracked by a pernicious combination of alcohol,
It is 10am or thereabouts on a Sunday morning at Heathrow airport, west London, terminal 3.
Whole clans are on the move: fraught families, overladen trolleys, enormous piles of luggage,
The Kremlin is at it again: exploiting its near-monopoly on power to curb the hard-won freedoms of its citizens. First, President Vladimir Putin shuts down all independent television stations; then
An election is held. The turnout is more than respectable and the result is almost a draw, but not quite. The major challenging party wins more seats in the national
The worlds press has been filled in the past week with news about a tulip or daffodil revolution in plucky little Kyrgyzstan and the universal and inevitable appeal of
Vladimir Putin is fast joining the long list of Russian leaders who have failed to meet the wests inflated expectations. Across the United States and Europe, the establishment media
