In Choosing Kiselyov, Media Critics Say Putin Opts For Personal Propagandist
Copyright show: Hide copyrights A popular clip circulating on the Internet shows just how much a journalist can change in Vladimir Putin's Russia. In 1999, as Putin was coming to power, Dmitry...
View ArticleUzbek Dissident Claims Gulnara's Geneva Home Holds National Treasures
Copyright show: Hide copyrights Uzbek first daughter Gulnara Karimova has never hidden her appreciation of art. What she may have been hiding, however, is the art itself.An Uzbek dissident currently...
View ArticleFour 'Black Sheep' Presidencies To Watch In 2014
Copyright show: Hide copyrights January 1 marked more than the start of a new year. It was also the day that many institutions handed over their rotating presidencies from one country to another....
View ArticleEight Things You Didn't Know About The Ukrainian Election
Copyright show: No It's all but certain that "chocolate king" Petro Poroshenko is going to win more votes than "gas princess" Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine's May 25 first-round elections. But there are...
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Copyright show: No Like many people with access to the Internet and a holster full of gadgets, Vladimir Nesterenko is living a double existence.In real life, the 49-year-old Kyiv native is a published...
View ArticleTogether A Lifetime, Azeri Activists Now Apart And In Jail
Copyright show: Hide copyrights Leyla and Arif Yunus met as young history students in the late 1970s, at a party hosted by one of their professors at Baku State University.As the evening drew to a...
View ArticleFive Important Things That Memorial's Done (and Is Still Doing) for Russia
Copyright show: No Russia's Justice Ministry has asked the country's Supreme Court to liquidate Memorial, the country's oldest and best-known human rights organization, which groups together more than...
View ArticleWhat's the EEU and What Are Its Chances?
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View ArticleOrthodox Priest Gives Russians One More Thing to Worry About
Copyright show: No The Russian literary world barely batted an eye when a little-known writer, Aron Shemaiyer, published a dystopic e-novella, "Machaut and the Bears," last year. But interest is now...
View ArticleEmbattled Baku Weighs Benefits, Risks Of Setting Ismayilova Free
Copyright show: No If you believe in good omens, a rare season of amnesty augurs well for Khadija Ismayilova's appeal for prison release. read more
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