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Russia Update: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr. Gives First Interview Since Hospitalization

August 19, 2015

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., coordinator for Open Russia, has given his first press interview today to Moskovsky Komsomolets. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The previous issue is here. Special features: – ‘I Was on Active Duty’: Interview […]

Putin Faces New Kind of Parade of Sovereignties in Degraded Russian Regions

May 31, 2015

Staunton, May 27 – Russian governors, “even the most loyal” to the Kremlin, as a result of the intensification of the economic crisis, find themselves between a rock and a hard place and are beginning to complain about Moscow’s failure to articulate an anti-crisis strategy which takes the interests of their regions into account, according […]