[Enhanced laws punishing individuals for offenses to religious feeling are being employed against artist Artyom Loskutov, who has been brought up on similar charges several times before for the content of his art. Kommersant reports on his latest offense.–Ed.] Artyom Loskutov, an artist from Novosibirsk known for organizing “Monstration” street art shows, is involved in […]
[The following article describes the latest developments in the investigation into the embezzlement of funds from the GLONASS satellite programme. Investigators have revealed that the management of a company affiliated by the programme are suspected of taking part in the theft, and the CEO of NPP Metromark Infosystems has been arrested—Ed.] There have been new […]
RPR-PARNAS co-chairman Boris Nemtsov said the Coordinating Council of the Opposition /KSO/should name a single candidate in case Moscow has an early mayoral election.
A commando raid to detain the man who ran Russia’s most violent big city is one of the boldest gambles in years by President Vladimir Putin to assert control over Dagestan, a region spiraling into organized crime and Islamist insurgency.
[According to the Central Election Commission data for 2012, the ruling United Russia party is the Russia’s wealthiest political party: its earnings amounted to 3.9 billion roubles ($122 million), most of which were received from the state budget. The emptiest coffers were those of RPR-PARNAS, that will have to finance its election campaign not from […]
Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, announced Tuesday he is stepping down two years early to stand for a new term in office.
President Vladimir Putin voiced support on Tuesday for a planned ban on adoptions by foreign same-sex couples and dismissed Western criticism of Russia’s treatment of gay people.
[In his blog on The New Times, opposition leader Ilya Yashin reports on the court appearance of Vadim Korovin, an activist from the Federation of Car Owners, who allegedly ran into a Traffic and Road Safety Inspector after refusing to yield right of way to an official motorcade. His treatment has attracted the attention of civic […]
A court in the Moscow Region decided against sanctioning the arrest of Vadim Korovin, an oppositionist and an activist with the Russian Federation of Car Owners, accused of hitting a policeman with his car.
The bizarre events surrounding the prosecution of Alexander Lebedev inRussia have reached a farcical level.
