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The recent catastrophic fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm grabbed national headlines. Local authorities all...
So far the Russian government has resisted the temptation of controlling the Russian internet, but this may be about...
Today, as Memorial receives the 2009 Sakharov Prize, Lyubov Borusyak talks to Ludmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow...
The independence, or lack of it, of the Russian judiciary has been much discussed, but Emmanuil Gushansky makes an...
Presidential elections are looming in the Abkhazia, the breakaway republic which Russia recognised as an independent...
The region is gripped by swine flu panic, much of it orchestrated, in the opinion of Elena Strelnikova. But every...
Landmark victories in defiance of the Russian government have made the European Court of Human Rights the most...
At the OSCE summit 10 years ago this week, Russia and NATO agreed a deal on troop and armament withdrawals from...
Control of St.Petersburg’s television station, once free-thinking and vibrant, has been handed to producers from...
Russia’s blogosphere reacts to the crash of the Moscow-St Petersburg train that killed 26 people on 27 November....
The souring of Iran's key relationship with Russia is a crucial factor behind its decision to build ten nuclear...
Through the Orange Revolution in 2004 Ukraine turned its back on authoritarian politics and started on the bumpy...
In the second of two articles on Russia’s Muslim strategy, Walter Laqueur observes that hostility to the United...
Life in Oryol has changed little since Ivan Turgenev wrote about it 160 years ago, though the villages he described...
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The Kremlin holds that Muslim countries are Russia’s natural allies against the West. Yet this policy is riven with...
On the fifth anniversary of the Orange Revolution, with presidential elections in Ukraine imminent, Andreas Umland...
Ukraine faces considerable economic challenges, but democracy is becoming stronger. The upcoming presidential...
The myth of Russia’s beautiful past has gripped the popular imagination, thanks to state propaganda, the poet...
Russia's President Medvedev has warned that continued dependence on raw materials exports has a negative impact on...