Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for Russia’s FBI-like Investigative Committee, here criticizes Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov for a talk Surkov gave at the London School of Economics last week in which he criticizes the Committee’s heavy-handedness in investigating allegations of corruption in the Skolkovo project, designed to create a tech sector capital outside of Moscow. […]
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), accused Ponomarev of libel and unlawful commercial activity. According to Ponomarev, he now figures only in the investigation of the activity of Aleksei Beltyukov, vice president of Skolkovo. According to the investigation’s story, Mr. Beltyukov unlawfully gave Ilya Ponomarev, deputy of the State Duma, […]
Dear Friends! I asked my colleagues to give the opportunity to speak, and for the first time in my life — I’ve never read from a paper — I wrote down my speech, because I want to say some things that are extremely important for our movement. First, I want to say the flower of […]
Russian dissident and author Alex Goldfarb, who knew the late Boris Berezovsky, writes about the oligarch’s now-infamous British court case against Roman Abramovich, his Kremlin intrigues, his Chechen peace-making abilities, his patronage of Vladimir Putin, and his love of women. –Ed. What women loved him for, and why Putin didn’t love him; he could reach […]
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the anti-Putin Bolotnaya Square protests, which have led to numerous arrests and indictments of Russian opposition figure. The theme of this year’s demonstration was solidarity with these political prisoners. Below is a speech delivered by the Russian novelist Boris Akunin. –Ed. Greetings. If the court trials that have […]
What we are witnessing is the date of “May 6” making history. The trial of the “May 6 prisoners”, and the “Navalny Case” mark another historical turn of events. To understand the meaning of this, let’s try to look ahead from the past. I remember all too well how the “sources in the presidential administration” […]
A protest rally took place in Moscow on Bolotnaya Square with permission from authorities, timed to the anniversary of the “March of Millions” last year where clashes with police occurred. The action began with a minute of silence for a worker who died Monday as he was erecting the stage for the demonstration. According to […]
People usually expect me to say something new or I will to shout a new slogan. I haven’t thought up a new slogan, but on the other hand, I’ve come on stage with my wife, Julia. And maybe that is the new slogan — protest with your wife or together with your husband, as it […]
In my early youth, a friend of the family who had consecutively passed through the hell of German and Stalin’s concentration camps gave me A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [by Alexander Solzhenitsyn] to read. Ever since, for many years, I have hungrily read everything I could about Stalin, about the hard years […]
“Motherland, You’ve Gone Nuts,” writes Maya Sonina, director of the Oxygen charitable fund in her blog And what else can you write? The Motherland really has gone nuts — or well, alright, if not the Motherland itself, at least its Istra City Prosecutor’s Office, which has issued the organization Help for Cystic Fibrosis Patients a […]
