Novaya Gazeta has started to collect signatures for dissolution of the State Duma.

Оригинал взят у igorlev в #давайраспускайся
На сайт "Новой Газеты" не попасть - висит, но проголосовать за роспуск этой.... (много нецензурных слов) российской думы можно тут (тот же сайт "Новой"): http://webmasta.org/anonymizer/browse.php?u= ( Read more... )

Svetlana Kuritsina, better known as "Sveta from Ivanоvo", is a young activist of the pro-Kremlin Stal ("Steel") movement, who came to Moscow at the end of 2011 from her native city of Ivanovo with a group of other Stal members. While in Moscow, she was interviewed by a journalist of the Moscow News, who uploaded the video on YouTube. Sveta's naive ( Read more... )

The editors office of Novaya Gazeta has sent twelve questions from its staff and readers of the newspaper to Putin's call-in show, but never received his replies. The questions were about corruption, inadequate medical and school services, disregard for the opinion of environmentalists, growth of crime and ultra-right sentiments, stagnation of ( Read more... )

Medvedev, Putin, Nurgaliyev. Turn up instigators and performers of the attack on Oleg Kashin! Or resign immediately!

Изначально опубликовал victor_korb в Выдайте заказчиков или уйдите в отставку!

Медведев, Путин, Нургалиев,
выдайте заказчиков и исполнителей
нападения на Олега Кашина!
Или немедленно
УЙДИТЕ В ОТСТАВКУ!

Boris Nemtsov: Politics in Russia is done only in the streets

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Seven years have passed since the tragic death of an outstanding journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, who was apparently poisoned. In the last years of his life he investigated corruption of top government officials and bombings of the apartment houses. Over these years the Russian state has been unwilling to examine this murder.


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Dmitry Lomonosov lomonosov, who is a disabled WW2 soldier, a former POW and now a popular blogger, has written about the contrast between Russia on television and in the Internet. Оставшись на две недели без интернета, понял, какую информацию доводят до обывателей наши достославные СМИ ( Read more... )

Today the prominent politologist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky turns 70. In this interview, given a few days ago, he picks up the theme of Russia as a catching-up nation in connection with Medvedev's "excursion" to the USA. Piontkovsky says that over centuries, despite several attempts of modernisation, Russia has been lagging behind the West. ( Read more... )

Russian nesting dolls as seen by the Amnesty International in France. The title of the video: "Do not let the charm of Russia make us forget her atrocities". Last night French AI members projected this video on facades of houses in Paris. They have called their action "Let's spoil Putin's sleep!" Currently Vladimir Putin is in Paris on a state ( Read more... )