Sofi Oksanen & Bill Browder in Toronto: The UpNorth March 27 LiveStream
byWatch the UpNorth livestream of the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights with Bill Browder and Sofi Oksanen. This live stream was developed…
Russia
Former Putin Advisor Says Russia Should Declare War on Baltics and Poland
byFormer adviser to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, Alexander Nekrassov said on Tuesday that Russia should declare war on the Baltic States and Poland…
Russian Leaders Doing Interesting Things
byFrom Vladimir Putin’s participation in a NASHI Youth pan crushing competition to Leonid Brezhnev’s naked late night phone calls to Finnish President, Urho Kekkonen:…
Kremlin Threatens to Target Danish Warships With Nukes: Danish Media Report
byThe Copenhagen Post reports that Russian ambassador to Denmark, Mikhal Vanin, said that Danish warships will “end up as targets for Russian nuclear missiles…
Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete denied access to Russia for Nemtsov Funeral
byVice-Chairwoman of the EPP Group, Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete was denied admission into Russia Monday. Kalniete was travelling to Moscow to attend the funeral…
Nemtsov: The adoption of the EU Magnitsky Law would be a blow to the criminal regime
byInterview conducted in April 2013 Boris Nemtsov: In principle, the Magnitsky Law would be unnecessary if a truly independent judiciary and law enforcement agencies…
Another Defeat for Putin’s ‘Russian World’ – Very Few Russians in Estonia Want to Leave
byStaunton – Over the last two year period for which statistics are available, only 37 ethnic Russians moved from Estonia to the Russian Federation…
A New Sect Emerges in Russia – ‘Putin’s Witnesses’
byStaunton – Russians are ironically calling “the Network,” as the Kremlin’s new youth movement is officially known, “Putin’s Witnesses” because its members are so…
Russian environmental group continues battle to clear its name under ‘foreign agent’ law
byST. PETERSBURG – Ecodefense, the first Russian environmental group designated a “foreign agent” by the Justice Ministry, continued its court battle to appeal the…
President Putin Says He Is Clueless about Economic Policy
byA financial meltdown has ravaged Russia in the last two weeks in a fashion reminiscent of 2008 and 1998. The value of the ruble…