Election day is here. And, according to all the signals, it will be as interesting as anticipated. The first exit polls coming from the far Eastern regions of Russia are quite shocking: preferences for Putin’s United Russia are below 50 per cent,...
More than 30,000 people encircled Moscow in a human chain along Sadovoe Kolco, a 10-mile long road surrounding the city yesterday. Protesters were calling for fair elections and for the ousting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Arguably, the...
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk collective from Moscow. They hide their faces under coloured balaclavas, use nicknames to remain anonymous and perform unsanctioned concerts in peculiar places. Since their emergence last autumn Pussy Riot...
Authorities in the Siberian city of Barnaul have refused to sanction a dolls' protest rally, claiming toys are not equal to people and so cannot participate. Rights activists had planned to place 100 Kinder surprise toys, 100 Lego figures, 20...
Ekho Moskvy is Russia’s most popular talk radio station, with 900,000 listeners daily. Since its creation in 1990 it has delivered information as an independent media which, unlike Russian TV, isn't subject to censorship. This remained the case...
Human rights advocate and Presidential council for Human Rights expert Vladimir Osechkin has reported freedom of expression violations in penal colony №7 in Tver. Inmates and their relatives appealed to Oscechkin saying they had been seriously...
On Saturday February 4 protesters calling for fair elections in Russia hit the streets worldwide. The protests took place exactly one month before the presidential election, which is likely to return prime minister Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin’s...
One month ahead of presidential polls, tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of Moscow today to protest Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin for a third presidential term. The stop-Putin movement staged...
The Russian Central Election Committee has refused to register Grigory Yavlinsky --- founder of the Yabloko opposition party --- as a presidential candidate. Yabloko did not reach the seven per cent minimum in the State Duma elections, but...
Popular Russian blogger Oleg Kozyrev has been threatened with a defamation lawsuit by Moscow Region Election Committee for filing a complaint on alleged election law violations. "Clearly this is an example of pressure against bloggers who succeeded...