Chechens who volunteered to fight on the side of the Russian-backed separatists are returning home to Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said in an interview with RIA Novosti today. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The previous […]
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Aleksandr Sokolov, a journalist at RBC.ru (RosBiznesKonsulting), a critical online news service, and member of the “People’s Will Army” has been arrested on charges of “founding a banned organization” and “advocating holding a referendum,” along with two other activists. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, […]
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The Novosibirsk Region Elections Commission has rejected the opposition party Parnas from taking part in local elections by questioning hundreds of its signatures to get on the ballot. Activists have responded by staging a hunger strike. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian […]
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Staunton, July 26 – A group of Duma deputies want to make “anti-Russian” statements and actions a crime analogous to “anti-Soviet” ones in the time of the USSR, lawyer Genri Reznik says, and while they haven’t worked out the terminology completely, they have decided on a penalty – up to ten years in prison, the […]
Aleksei Beltyukov, vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation created to promote tech entrepreneurship in Russia, has been arrested in absentia in a long-standing fraud case, Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The previous issue is here. Special […]
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