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Key evidence emerges in Markelov, Baburova killings

January 21, 2011 Alexander Chernykh, Kommersant
Audio tapes emerge in the investigation into the murders of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova

Pay per bribe

January 18, 2011 Anastasia Kornya, Natalya Kostenko, Vedomosti
New proposed criminal statutes will increase the punishment for giving or accepting bribes

Will Russia’s Madoff strike again?

January 18, 2011 Hugo Natowicz
Sergei Mavrodi is at it again, setting up a new Internet-based investment scheme.

A blogger shows shareholders how to fight for their rights

January 3, 2011 Veronica Dorman
Alexei Navalny is a man on a mission: He wants to fight Russia’s egregious culture of corruption with hard facts and the law.

Khodorkovsky sentenced to six more years

December 30, 2010 Russia Today TV Channel
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head and key shareholder of the Yukos oil company has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in a penal colony for massive theft and money laundering

Guilty verdict for Khodorkovsky

December 27, 2010 Russia Today TV Channel
A Moscow court has found former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former colleague ex-Menatep head Platon Lebedev guilty in a second criminal case against the two men.

Russian President sums up Year’s events in TV interview

December 27, 2010 Russia Today TV Channel
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has spoken of the results of the year 2010 and given major guidelines for future development in his interview with three major Russian television channels.

New mayor steps in to free Moscow’s clogged arteries

December 22, 2010 Mikhail Volkov, special to Russia Now
The capital’s roads are effectively at a standstill while the Metro is close to bursting point

Officials find quotas a way to balance demands of politics and labor

December 17, 2010 Caress Schenk
Russia’s policy of issuing work permits to immigrant workers has given politicians a useful tool to moderate anti-immigrant forces while supplying a ready source of cheap labor.

Vladimir Putin: We are all children of one fatherland

December 16, 2010 Russia Today TV Channel
In his ninth televised question-and-answer session, the prime minister took questions from the public on topics ranging from ethnic violence to government corruption.

The tandem plays musical chairs

December 9, 2010 Anna Arutunyan, The Moscow News
Dmitry Medvedev addresses domestic policy, while Vladimir Putin quiets critics with Larry King

WikiLeaks reopens debate over Russia-Georgia war

December 6, 2010 Sergei Markedonov
Cables released by WikiLeaks from Tbilisi during August 2008 show that the conflict over South Ossetia deserves a reinvigorated analysis.

Vladimir Putin talks to Larry King: The real transcript

December 3, 2010 premier.gov.ru
Many complaints have been made about the quality of the translation in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's conversation with Larry King. Read the real, complete transcript here!

In Russia, modernization is for the children

December 1, 2010 Viktor Khamraev, Kommersant (translated by RT)
In his third Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev focused on the country's children.

Duma blames Stalin for Katyn massacre

November 29, 2010 Nikolaus von Twickel, the Moscow Times
The State Duma on Friday issued a declaration condemning the Katyn massacre and for the first time directly blamed Soviet leader Josef Stalin for the 1940 execution of more than 20,000 Polish officers

Much ado about taxes

November 25, 2010 Vadim Visloguzov, Kommersant
Alexei Kudrin and Arkady Dvorkovich scour far and wide for a scapegoat for Russia’s rising taxes

U.S. gets its hands on the “Lord of War” at last

November 23, 2010 Nikolai Surkov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Viktor Bout arrives in the U.S. after years of wrangling with Thai authorities.

Moscow's future – a wish list

November 19, 2010 Tim Gosling, bne
Sergei Sobyanin has said he will reevaluate Moscow's long-term development plan. How should it look?

Russia watchdog

November 18, 2010 Alexander Gasyuk, special to Russia Now
David Kramer: “I don’t consider the 90s as a period of great democratic development in Russia.”

“They will be found – crimes like this give up their secrets”

November 8, 2010 Natalya Kostenko, Vedomosti
President Dmitry Medvedev commented on the Oleg Kashin tragedy at a meeting with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta editorial staff (devoted to the publication’s 20th anniversary) in Gorki on Monday
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