On 24 July, the Moscow City Court sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the left wing of the Russian opposition, to four-and-a-half years in prison.
До крушения малайзийского «боинга» Сергей Шойгу был одним из самых влиятельных политиков в России. Уже нет in English
Until the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was one of the most influential politicians in Russia. Not any more. на русском языке
Cossacks have always been loyal to the Kremlin. The crisis in Ukraine has only confirmed that loyalty.
There has so far been little sign of the cooperation which could lead to some form of closure for the MH17 bereaved. But that could be changing…
My friend and colleague Alexander Sodiqov is being held in Tajikistan without charge, under suspicion of espionage and treason.
Есть в Донецке смелые журналисты, рассказывающие обо всем происходящем. Но не без последствий для себя…In English
President Poroshenko has asked for increased presidential powers, which are the opposite of what the Euromaidan protests were about.
The BRICS nations are going to have their own bank. They say it’s going to be nothing like the World Bank. But don’t bank on it.
Human rights defenders in Russia have released data on the numbers of Russians arrested at protests; and what they were protesting about.
Belarus is now officially the world’s heaviest drinking nation; and the socio-economic consequences are enormous.
The Russian political establishment thinks that Ukrainians are 'traitors to Orthodox civilisation and Russian unity.’ But it is not only Putin’s Russia that is behind the challenge to democracy in Ukraine.
