The Russian government is facing a conflict in interest in their consideration of NSA leaker Edward Snowden. On one hand, Russia is reaping the benefits of the leak, as the NSA’s systems for gathering intelligence have been exposed. More broadly, the NSA’s practices have embarrassed the United States both at home and abroad, and has […]
We’ve been following growing tensions in the North Caucasus town of Pugachev after anti-Chechen protests erupted in the wake of a murder of a half-Tatar and half-Russian former paratrooper at the hands of a Chechen youth. At the end of last week, the police arrested at least 13 people in a sweep related to the […]
The Russian State-Media outlet RIA Novosti has published an alarming headline on the state of corruption inside the Russian military: The financial cost of corruption uncovered in the Russian Armed Forces this year has soared 450 percent from last year to over 4.4 billion rubles ($130 million), the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Thursday. “The […]
UPDATES: We are tracking the developing story of Edward Snowden’s meeting with Human Rights Groups. Our original article is below: 1830 GMT: Snowden has given a speech that appears to be a reading of his statement that was posted on Wikileaks earlier (read the whole statement here). There is a growing consensus from those who […]
Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the April bombing at the Boston Marathon, has not been seen on video since his arrest following a city-wide manhunt. Tsarnaev has been in a prison hospital since he was detained, as he was reported suffering from gunshot wounds that at one point would not allow him to speak. Yesterday, […]
UPDATED: Please see bottom of post for newest information: Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower and American fugitive, may be on a flight right now to Havana, Cuba. If so, from there, he is likely traveling to Venezuela. As the flight pattern above (supplied by Storyful’s Markham Nolan) demonstrates, the plane reportedly took a strange deviation […]
The tweet containing the picture above says it all: Oh,Russia.Where you can prosecute a ghost.MT @YuliaSkyNews Cameras film empty Magnitsky cage. Defendant long dead pic.twitter.com/45xBlr9TVa — Amie Ferris-Rotman (@Amie_FR) July 11, 2013 Today, Russian courts found deceased investment fund lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, guilty of tax evasion, along with his former client, William Browder (tried in absentia). […]
The Russian Interior Ministry has broken up a money-laundering scheme worth more than $1.1 billion, and has arrested seven individuals in relation to the plot. Over 400 people were involved in the scheme, according to the statement obtained by The Moscow Times. $1.1 billion is a large amount of money, and this news should represent an […]
On Tuesday, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said that he had presented an 80-page report to UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon that conclusively proved that Syrian rebels used sarin gas on March 19th, 2013. According to Churkin, the rebels fired a “Bashar 3 missile” that was armed with sarin gas at the […]
Since December, Americans have been banned from adopting Russian children. The ban is widely seen as revenge for the Magnitsky Act, a bill that banned Russian human rights offenders from entering or doing business with the United States. While many articles have been published about Russia’s stranded orphans or the American families that cannot adopt […]
