Le persone autentiche sono unite non da principi politici, ma morali. (Nikolai Berdyaev)
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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. .