Russia

Более недели иностранные студенты Воронежа не выходили на занятия, требуя от городской администрации принятия мер по защите людей с иным цветом кожи. Такое решение было принято на массовом митинге, прошедшем во вторник, 24 февраля, перед […]

Западные наблюдатели конечно уже заметили «некоторые» нарушения. Но их интересуют лишь теоретическая социология и инвестиции, они не могут и не хотят увидеть всю историю. Избирательная борьба шла не между кандидатами, но за повышение явки; за […]

Sham presidential elections will increase presidential authoritarianism

Unlike the last US Presidential elections, there were no recounts or dodgy chads to create nail biting tension in the recent Russian Duma elections. The contest for places in Russia’s Duma (the parliament) went almost […]

Mikhail Khodorkovskii, one of Russia’s richest men and head of the giant company Yukos Oil, was taken from his private jet, on 25 October, by armed state security personnel. Khordokovskii’s arrest and the charges laid […]

Anti-war movement in Russia

President Putin’s ’war against terror’ has brought the very terror to Moscow itself. Last week, a group of 50 heavily armed Chechens drove through Moscow in two minibuses and seized a theatre in the middle […]

Earlier this week, we reported on the case of Sergei Kozlovskii, a socialist and gay rights activist facing political repression and huge legal fine.