F ORMALLY, THE successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, was Vladimir Putin. In every other sense—ideologically, morally, temperamentally—Yeltsin’s successor was a liberal ...
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EADaily, . The current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in the late 90s, holding the position of director ...
Friday marks 11 years since the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent Russian opposition figure and former deputy prime minister who criticized President Vladimir Putin’s policy toward Ukraine and was ...
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On a bridge next to the Kremlin on a drizzly Friday morning, a lone Russian police officer stood looking at the half-dozen bunches of flowers laying in memory of slain opposition figure Boris ...
On December 17, Daria Egereva, a Selkup activist fighting for the rights of Siberia's indigenous peoples, was arrested in ...
In light of a recent dispute between President Alar Karis and the foreign minister, ERR takes a look back at the solos of ...
In this exclusive interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Georgian Service, British-Swedish geostrategist, advisor, ...
From the first taste of the preshow environment for “Mother Russia” — a flood of red lights, sparkly tinsel garlands and ...