A plaza in honor of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was unveiled in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Nemtsov’s colleagues in Moscow struggle to keep his memory visible.
US-based Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova recalls Aleksandr Shchetinin, the Russian-Ukrainian journalist behind the site Novy Region-2 who died in mysterious circumstances the day before Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed, and others who have died in the intervening period in what appear to be somewhat mysterious circumstances.
Goncharenko is a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s party.
Supporters of opposition leader Alexey Navalny have debated the Constitutional interpretation of Russian law that might allow him to run for president despite his recent criminal conviction. But federal law is not on his side.
LIVE UPDATES: The Moscow Military District Court has failed to put together a jury in the trial for the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. 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. Recent […]
The Russian Ministry of Finance is proposing to slash support of small and medium business nearly in half.
Disarray and lack of unity among Russian opposition groups has caused some to invoke the memory of their leader Boris Nemtsov, assassinated in February 2015, asking what he would have done.
The Russian Investigative Committee has completed its investigation of suspects in the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
When a minivan with eight Russian and European journalists and human rights activists was attacked on March 9 by a band of professional thugs near the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya last week, the story was covered briefly in some world news outlets but didn’t attract much attention. Putin’s war in Syria has distracted from […]
A Double Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 23 2016-03-08 02:14:25 Staunton, VA, February 19, 2016 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way […]
