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A night at The Human Library

May 22, 2012 Patrick Sewell
In the wake of a legislative attack on the LGBT community in a number of Russian cities, “The Human Library,” an innovative project designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding, opened its doors in Moscow

Opposition and Nashi unite over forest

May 14, 2012 Tatyana Kasimova, Russky Reporter
The standoff over the Tsagovsky Forest brings together protestors from across the political spectrum

Muscovites walked for control

May 14, 2012 Russky Repoter
Thousands of people responded to a call by popular Russian writer Boris Akunin to march through the boulevards of central Moscow

Political uncertainties amid rising discontent

May 2, 2012 Felix Goryunov
The protest movement in Russia may not be finished, but it also may not bring about the creation of democratic capitalism

Television for the elite

April 26, 2012 Alexander Vostrov
Is there any hope for Medvedev’s plan to create public television?

The voting intelligentsia

March 5, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
RBTH spoke to about a dozen cultural figures as they reflected on election day 2012

Bullying the bureaucrat

December 21, 2011 Valery Vyzhutovich
Ordinary Russians understand why civil servants do not want to disclose tax declarations

Moscow faces vote protests

December 10, 2011 Ben Aris, Business New Europe
Masses gathered to oppose the results of the Dec. 4 Duma elections, but the protests remained peaceful

Flash mobs: Spontaneous art, social agitation, or zombification?

December 5, 2011 Daria Gonzales
The first flash mobs were a spontaneous gathering to do something fun. But now flash mobs are becoming a tool of furthering political goals

So, do theater and politics mix in Russia?

August 12, 2011 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Jailed businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsy and writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya came together to discuss the state of the State of Russia – on a theatre stage

Angry Young Roger

July 26, 2011 Alexander Vostrov
The Russian Pirate Party wants to fight illegal downloading, but the authorities aren’t making it easy

“I write now with more of an edge“

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A rare interview with Oleg Kashin

For Russia’s journalists, often in peril, small ripples of change

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Freedom of the press in Russia: Is the situation improving?

Rumblings of political activism among Russia's bikers

July 11, 2011 Alex Chachkevitch, the Moscow Times
Bikers, who say they get the short end of the stick on the road, raised their voices when one of their own was seriously injured in a traffic accident

Inside Russia, new light shines on Magnitsky case

July 11, 2011 Vladimir Ruvinsky
Investigators, prison doctors, prosecutors and judges are responsible for the death of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer, the presidential council on human rights stated

"We hugged the trees to stop the bulldozers"

June 15, 2011 Tatiana Shabaeva
Despite Dmitry Medvedev's pronouncement, the fight over Khimki Forest continues

“Who knows where I will be soon”

May 20, 2011 Vladimir Ruvinsky, Galina Masterova
Presidential commission concludes that security service officers fabricated Magnitsky charges

Looking for trouble

May 13, 2011 Anastasia Gorokhova
The work of the art group Voina (War), which includes a 213-foot phallus and overturned police cars, makes it clear the group has something to say

No more minister chairman

April 28, 2011 Aleh Tsyvinski, Sergei Guriev, the Moscow Times
Russia is shaking up the governance of state-owned companies

Moscow allows first ever gay parade

April 27, 2011 RIA Novosti
The Moscow city authorities gave official permission on Tuesday to hold the first ever gay pride march in the capital
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