There Is No Such Thing as a Former “Eminence Grise”: On the Return of Vladislav Surkov

» There Is No Such Thing as a Former “Eminence Grise”: On the Return of Vladislav Surkov
21/10/13 15:31 from Home
In late September, former deputy Kremlin chief-of-staff Vladislav Surkov returned to the Kremlin as an assistant to President Vladimir Putin. Political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya discusses why the Russian leader needed to rehabilitate th...

» Rights Court Assails Russia Over Inquiry of 1940 Massacre
21/10/13 12:55 from NYT > Europe
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia had failed to adequately investigate the mass killing of 22,000 Polish officers, known as the Katyn massacre, during World War II. 

» US Buys Alaska for Two Cents an Acre - Indian Country Today Media Network
20/10/13 12:53 from Russia - Google News
US Buys Alaska for Two Cents an AcreIndian Country Today Media NetworkThe Russian-America Company had been fur trading in Alaska for some 83 years before Hayward Hutchinson, a Civil War business promoter, travelled to Sitka in 1867 to bi...

» Diplomats Hope to Ease Dutch Tensions
20/10/13 13:24 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
The Foreign Ministry said Friday that a house managed by the Russian embassy in The Hague was burglarized by unknown assailants, the latest in a series of incidents involving Dutch and Russian diplomats that have ratcheted up tensions be...

» Estonia Says Russia Tries to Sway Local Vote Via Interpol - Bloomberg
20/10/13 13:36 from Russia - Google News
Estonia Says Russia Tries to Sway Local Vote Via InterpolBloombergMembers of Estonia's government accused neighboring Russia of interfering in local politics after a candidate for mayor of the capital, Tallinn, was placed on Interpol...

» Sevastopol
20/10/13 15:11 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
A train cutting into a scenic city harbor with moored ships may be your first impression of Sevastopol, a Black Sea port in Ukraine. Even if you are at the end a long journey that covered all sorts of landscapes, this new view through th...

» Scott Lively, Anti-Gay Crusader, Returns To Russia To Stir-Up Some Hate
20/10/13 17:07 from The InterpreterThe Interpreter
Scott Lively, the American missionary behind Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, has returned to Russia.

» Police to Raid Migrants' Apartments Every Friday
20/10/13 17:21 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
In the latest step by authorities to fight unlawful immigration following an anti-migrant riot earlier this month, the city's police chief said that Moscow police will raid apartments reportedly occupied by illegal migrants every Friday ...

» Caribbean Nations to Seek Reparations, Putting Price on Damage of Slavery
20/10/13 18:31 from NYT > Europe
Fourteen countries plan to compile an inventory of the harm caused by the slave trade and then demand an apology and reparations from the former colonial powers Britain, France and the Netherlands. 

» Fighting Asteroids a New Task for Russia's Space Industry
20/10/13 20:00 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
The Federal Space Agency has a new mission on its plate: fighting asteroids, the organization's head said Sunday.

» Rosneft Cedes Fields to China
20/10/13 20:00 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Rosneft will cede a share of its oil riches to China under a memorandum signed Friday to jointly develop East Siberia deposits, in the first such deal between China's largest oil company and Russia.

» Defense Minister Shoigu Rebukes Officials for Leaking to Media
20/10/13 20:00 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave officials a dressing-down for using the media to anonymously express concern about conditions in the army, suggesting they played into the hands of sensationalist journalists.

» Kremlin Helps Media Moguls Expand
20/10/13 20:00 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
The skinny man in a baggy, wrinkled shirt carting groceries back to his car could have been any Silicon Valley programmer, were it not for the Russian license plate on the car behind him.

» Pussy Riot's Tolokonnikova Transferred to New Prison
20/10/13 20:00 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is to be transferred to a new penitentiary for her "personal safety," prison authorities said Friday, after Tolokonnikova announced that she was resuming a hunger strike over poor conditions at th...

» Nobel Peace Prize Winners Urge Putin to Free Greenpeace Activists
20/10/13 20:00 from The St. Petersburg Times
International pressure on Russia over the arrest of Greenpeace activists mounted Thursday as 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners urged President Vladimir Putin to drop the piracy charges against them.

» Tycoon takes Angolan general back to court
20/10/13 21:55 from World news: Russia | guardian.co.uk
Arkady Gaydamak faces General Kopelipa again over allegations of intimidation before 2011 diamond dealArkady Gaydamak, the Russian-Israeli tycoon best known in the UK as the father of the former Portsmouth FC owner Sacha, is suing one of...

» Virulent New Strain of HIV Discovered in Russia - Advocate.com
20/10/13 21:22 from Russia - Google News
Advocate.comVirulent New Strain of HIV Discovered in RussiaAdvocate.comJust as Russia is making headlines for their opressive treatment of LGBT folks comes more disturbing news: researchers have discovered a new strain of HIV that is is ...

» 'More Than 20 Detained' in St. Petersburg After Nationalist Rally
21/10/13 04:57 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Police in St. Petersburg have detained at least 24 people after a sanctioned demonstration against "crime involving foreign migrants" in a downtown area sparked violence on the city's main street and a market area, local media reported.

» FSB 'Seeks Further Access' to Personal Data on Internet
21/10/13 06:57 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
The Communications and Press Ministry has drafted an order that would require Russia's Internet and telecommunications providers to install monitoring equipment by next summer to give the Federal Security Service (FSB) access to all traf...

» FSB Seeking to Expand Online Surveillance
21/10/13 06:57 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
A draft government order may allow the Federal Security Service, or FSB, to access all Internet communications without court permission, a policy that some observers say would violate the Constitution and could spur attempts to gather in...

» Russian Draft Bill Banning Gay Parenting Withdrawn
21/10/13 09:28 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
A draft bill that would have stripped gay parents of their children has been withdrawn from the agenda of the Russian parliament.

» Sobyanin and Putin 'Talked Over' Navalny Election Participation
21/10/13 09:33 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said that he conferred with President Vladimir Putin about the decision to allow opposition leader Alexei Navalny to participate in the mayoral election on Sept. 8, confirming widespread speculations at the time.

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» Nationalists' Russian March Planned for Nov. 4
21/10/13 10:03 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Russian nationalists filed a petition Monday for a rally in Moscow's southeastern Lyublino district on Nov. 4, when the country marks National Unity Day.

» In Russia, Even Good News Is Bad - New York Times (blog)
21/10/13 10:10 from Russia - Google News
In Russia, Even Good News Is BadNew York Times (blog)MOSCOW — I was about to turn off my computer late Friday night when a letter arrived saying that the bill that would take parental rights away from Russia's gay, lesbian, bisexual ...

» Europe court criticises Russia over Katyn massacre inquiry - BBC News
21/10/13 11:18 from Russia - Google News
BBC NewsEurope court criticises Russia over Katyn massacre inquiryBBC NewsThe European Court of Human Rights says Russia has failed to explain why it kept key files secret when it investigated the 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 ...

» Russia Tycoon Lebedev to Do Community Service Outside Moscow
21/10/13 11:31 from The InterpreterThe Interpreter
Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev is to carry out community service for brawling with a fellow tycoon on a television show in 2011 in a village 250 kilometers outside Moscow.

» Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale – review - The Guardian
21/10/13 12:09 from Russia - Google News
The GuardianRed Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale – reviewThe GuardianMoscow's Kremlin – the word means "fortress", and Moscow was far from the only Russian city to have one – began l...

» European Court Condemns Moscow Over Katyn Decision
21/10/13 12:15 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Russia for failing to share the findings of an investigation into the 1940 massacre of 20,000 Polish war prisoners by Soviet secret police in Russia's Katyn forest.

» EU Tells Russia to Let Nations Seek Closer EU Ties - ABC News
21/10/13 12:55 from Russia - Google News
Montreal GazetteEU Tells Russia to Let Nations Seek Closer EU TiesABC NewsEuropean Union foreign ministers told Russia on Monday to stop using trade agreements to punish East European nations seeking closer relations or special agreement...

» Jailed Pussy Riot Member Transferred To Another Penitentiary
21/10/13 13:40 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been transferred to another penal colony.

» Russia's Heroin Habit
21/10/13 14:00 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
With at least 1.5 million addicts, Russia is hooked on heroin, much of it coming in from Afghanistan. But while the Kremlin fears the withdrawal of NATO troops next year will increase trafficking of the drug, officials have done little t...

» Dutch Government Asks Court To Free Greenpeace Activists
21/10/13 15:51 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The Netherlands says it has asked an international tribunal to order Russia to release an environmental protest ship and the activists who were on board.

» Dutch Want Tribunal to Make Russia Free Protesters - ABC News
21/10/13 15:58 from Russia - Google News
Aljazeera.comDutch Want Tribunal to Make Russia Free ProtestersABC NewsThe Netherlands asked an international tribunal Monday to order Russia to release a Greenpeace protest ship and the activists who were on board. Dutch Foreign Ministe...

» Medvedev Talks Straight With Foreign CEOs
21/10/13 16:25 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Russia's economy has hit a plateau and will grow 2 percent at best in 2012, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the heads of 48 global companies during an annual meeting of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council at his residence outside...

» Belarus Demands Compensation From Uralkali CEO Before Extradition
21/10/13 16:30 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Belarus is ready to hand over to Russia the CEO of fertilizer giant Uralkali if he compensates for damage done, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday, the same day that Russia issued an arrest warrant for the businessman.

» Dutch government takes Russia to court - Aljazeera.com
21/10/13 17:16 from Russia - Google News
Aljazeera.comDutch government takes Russia to courtAljazeera.comThe Dutch government has asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order Russia to release 30 people detained last month during an environmental protest in ...

» Iran gives Russia copy of US ScanEagle drone as proof of mass production
21/10/13 17:53 from World news: Russia | guardian.co.uk
US spy drone given to prove Iran's forces have mass produced the drone they claim to have captured a year agoIran has given Russia a copy of a US ScanEagle drone as proof that its elite forces have reverse-engineered and mass produced th...

» Poland Calls Ruling on Katyn Massacre 'Disappointing' - New York Times
21/10/13 17:51 from Russia - Google News
BBC NewsPoland Calls Ruling on Katyn Massacre 'Disappointing'New York TimesLONDON — In the long-simmering and emotional debate over a notorious mass killing during World War II, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Monday tha...

» Poland Calls Ruling on Katyn Massacre ‘Disappointing’
21/10/13 17:35 from NYT > Europe
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia had failed to adequately investigate the killing of more than 20,000 Polish officers during World War II.