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Press overview
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CAUCASIAN KNOT
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Robert Amsterdam blog
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The Other Russia
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Sean's Russia Blog. Russia Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
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Radio Free Liberty
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Novayagazeta.ru
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The Jamestown Foundation
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Johnson's Russia List
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The Moscow Times
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Gazeta Wyborcza
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krakowpost.com
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kyivpost.com
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Prague Watchdog
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IWPR
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russiaotherpointsofview.com
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charter97.org
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HRW
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Reach all Women in War
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New York Times
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Bookmarks
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President Obama has his hands full dealing with Russia. However, high on his agenda should be the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow's most famous prisoner. Success there would demonstrate the administration's ability to promote freedom in Russia and around the world. It even might encourage the freeing of other political prisoners and a new wave of reforms that would make Russia...
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For Walter Litvinenko, it was a difficult but necessary step. After his son Alexander was murdered in London in 2006 in the most scandalous political killing since the cold war, Walter fled Russia for sanctuary in western Europe. He chose Italy. It offered a new, anonymous, KGB-free life.
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The Russian Federal Security Service is saying that it has identified the perpetrator of a train bombing late last year that killed 26 people traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.
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Former Police Major Aleksei Dymovsky, famous for his efforts to expose corruption in Russia’s law enforcement agencies, has been released from a detention center under an oath not to leave the country.
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Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB spy, is the new owner of The Independent, industry sources told The Times. The purchase of the loss-making title and The Independent on Sunday comes after the Russian billionaire’s surprise takeover of the London Evening Standard for £1 last January.
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Ibragim D. Yevloyev, a police officer convicted of fatally shooting an opposition journalist in August 2008, began serving a two-year sentence of house arrest on Wednesday after Ingushetia’s Supreme Court ruled that the original penalty, two years in a penal colony, was too harsh. The decision infuriated friends of the victim, Magomed Y. Yevloyev, and prompted a protest from the Committee to...
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The Ukrainian parliament ousted the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, dealing a final blow to the leadership of the pro-Western Orange Revolution and leaving her to lead the opposition in parliament.
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The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of authoritarian regimes. But it doesn’t—in fact, the web is a boon for bullies
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When Georgia and Russia were trading partners, Chmi grew fat off traffic, and its families were in endless cheerful transit back and forth over the mountains. When the countries became enemies, the road closed, and Chmi starved. Weddings and funerals came and went a half-hour’s drive away, and relatives wept to each other over the phone, as if separated by an ocean.
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Calling his cause “just and holy,” Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, began to testify in his own defense against charges of war crimes and genocide as his trial resumed in The Hague on Monday after a four-month delay. .
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President Dmitry Medvedev's police reforms will turn into a sham if the public is excluded from the process and other law enforcement agencies are left untouched, opposition politicians and human rights activists said Thursday. “It is impossible to reform the Interior Ministry without reforming the prosecutor's office and the justice system,” Yabloko party leader Sergei Mitrokhin said...
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A lead investigator in the murder of Natalya Estemirova, a human rights worker who was abducted and shot to death in Chechnya last July, said on Thursday that the authorities know who shot her but that they have been unable to arrest the suspect.
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A recent week in Moscow left one clear impression: The Putin model of crony state capitalism is dead. For years, the structure that Vladimir Putin crafted looked invincible, with its steady, high growth rates and effective, mild repression. But the system only distributed ample oil rents to the elites and the ordinary people, creating neither moral nor economic value.
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Georgia's new plans to reintegrate Abkhazia and South Ossetia ignore a fundamental problem: their people aren't interested
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MOSCOW—Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Russian tycoons of underinvesting in the country's aging power system and threatened to impose fines or limit their companies' access to the power market.
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MOSCOW — Four of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen were criticized by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday, accused of failing to properly invest in the country’s energy sector. Presiding over a meeting on the electricity industry, Mr. Putin said in a televised speech that the executives, known as oligarchs, had undertaken to invest in power plants some years back but were now trying to...
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The Russian Internal Ministry is accusing the country’s media of launching a widespread campaign to discredit the ministry’s OMON security forces, Kasparov.ru reports. In a press released posted Tuesday on the agency’s official website, Lieutenant General Vladimir Gorshukov said that an article published Monday in the New Times magazine accusing an elite subdivision of the OMON of using slave...
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A growing number of Russians don't want to serve in the military because of fears of hazing, according to a survey released Tuesday on Defender of the Fatherland Day. A total 75 percent of respondents said they would not like to serve because of hazing, according to state-run VTsIOM.
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Stifling free media, arresting journalists, bullying its neighbours – Moscow is stamping on freedoms and the EU turns a blind eye
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A Russian magazine is being sued by an elite police subdivision in response to an article accusing them of forcing migrant workers to work without pay, reports Ekho Moskvy radio.