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Putin Toys With Obama as Syria Burns and Snowden Runs Free
From the Daily Beast: From Snowden to Syria, Russian President Putin does whatever he likes and… Read More
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An Election for Political Prisoners
After abruptly resigning from his appointed post earlier this month, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called for early… Read More
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“We Live Without Feeling the Country Beneath Us”
The Russian economic community was struck last week with the news that New School of… Read More
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Boris Berezovsky’s Dubious Legacy Lives On in the Kremlin
Writing for the Daily Beast, Garry Kasparov reminds us that while Boris Berezovsky’s death may… Read More
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The Higher-Ups Write Them Out
Last week, top Putin aide Vladislav Surkov answered questions at the London School of Economics about innovation… Read More
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The Still-Clenched Fist in Moscow
Congress’s Magnitsky Act sanctions Kremlin officials, but enforcement is up to the Obama State Department…. Read More
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Kasparov Declared Innocent in Unprecedented Case (incl. statement)
In a verdict that is virtually unprecedented for the Russian opposition, Garry Kasparov has been acquitted… Read More
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The Implacable Logic of the Vortex of History
Taking a historical perspective, opposition leader Garry Kasparov explains why the Kremlin’s insistence that Russia’s… Read More
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Forced Americanization: Made in NTV
Last March, Russian state-controlled television channel NTV aired an anti-oppositionist hack program called “Anatomy of a… Read More
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A Lesson for Obscurantists
Garry Kasparov speaks out against critics of the punk band Pussy Riot who claim that… Read More
