On April 17, the first session of the Kirovles trial opened at Lenin District Court [in Kirov], in which the chief defendant is opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, founder of RosPil [the anticorruption group]. The New Times spoke with Ludmila Navalnaya, Navalny’s mother, about how the trial will unfold and how the family is preparing for […]
There’s everything here. From “banal, ouch, that is, I’m sorry, Navalny”, to “his handlers from the Yale University have mistaken Russia for a Third World Country.” And, of course, the most beautiful and candid revelation: “he shouldn’t have annoyed the authorities.” In the meantime, Major-General Markin, even in the context of a special interview dedicated […]
The Daily Journal is publishing a sensational document that without any doubt will shed light on the events on Bolotnaya Square last May. We have managed to obtain a document entitled “Report on Maintaining Public Order and Security in the City of Moscow on May 6, 2012”, signed by Colonel Deynichenko, the Deputy Chief of […]
Obviously the government never learned any lessons from Khodorkovsky’s case, and it’s stubbornly looking for more adventures. Act Three, Scene One: Timber Logging Russia is getting drawn into the third landmark political trial of the decade. Khodorkovsky, Magnitsky, and now Navalny. What is common among the three trials is some historical logic, and as a […]
Russia will get on a course that it won’t be able to depart from until it reaches its final destination – the station called “Revolution Square”. The point at which we got on this track leading to a dead end was on September 24, 2011. Back then, I quoted an article from The New York […]
What is really striking is all the fuss that’s been made over the trial, which starts on April 17 in Kirov, in which I’m one of the defendants accused of putting together a criminal organization that conspired to steal lumber and sawdust from the company Kirovles, and actually stole that stuff worth about 16 million […]
Sergei Parkhomenko has posted a detailed excerpt of the Ph.D. thesis of child ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, titled “Legal Conflicts and Contemporary Forms of Their Resolution.” As Parkhomenko claims, Astakhov’s dissertation was practically completely falsified. Kommersant: How was this dissertation verified? SP: It was verified in the same way that an enormous numbers of dissertations are […]
Mikhail Starshinov, a deputy of the State Duma from United Russia and a representative of the All-Russian Popular Front, is proposing to confiscate funds from non-profit organizations (NPOs) that do not wish to register as “foreign agents.” The “front man” is certain that this is not “theft”, as it is only a “prophylactic measure.” Mr. […]
Yesterday Moscow Presnensky District Court, acting upon a petition by the Main Investigative Department for the City of Moscow, issued an arrest warrant for Boris Kuznetsov, an attorney. According to the investigators, back in 2007 acting as a defense attorney for one of his clients, Kuznetsov revealed information considered a state secret, by disclosing the […]
“Kadyrov’s bodyguards” have been released once again. The generals promised: those who have kidnapped and tortured people in Moscow will be punished, will go to jail and will face trial. But they’re already free. We demand an answer from the Russian Federation Investigative Committee, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the […]
