RFE/RL RUSSIA REPORT
12/27/2011 9:20:43 PM
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about domestic and foreign-policy developments in Russia.For more stories on Russia, please visit and bookmark our Russia page . |
 Two Chechens Jailed For Recruiting Suicide Bombers A Chechen man and his sister have been imprisoned after being found guilty in a Moscow court of recruiting would-be suicide bombers to carry out a terrorist attack in the Russian capital in 2009. More  Medvedev: Karabakh Peace 'Still Possible' Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has involved himself extensively in talks on the conflict over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh, says the problem can still be resolved in the near future despite an impasse in Armenian-Azerbaijani talks. More  Russians Outside Russia Join Election Protests While all eyes were on the massive December 24 protests in Moscow, Russian diaspora communities around the world expressed their solidarity by staging their own rallies. More  Russians Rally For Fair Elections Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Moscow and other Russian cities in the largest protest to date against alleged fraud in the December 4 parliamentary elections. More  Russian Envoy: 'Friendly' Tajik Relations Russia's ambassador to Tajikistan says Russian-Tajik relations are friendly and unaffected by a dispute over the prosecution of two pilots working for a Russian company More  The Kremlin's Divide And Conquer Strategy Praise the protesters. Deride the opposition. Offer concessions on the margins. Divide and rule. This appears to be the Kremlin's strategy for dealing with the new political milieu. More  Activist Wants Student Games Boycott On that day hundreds of youth activists in Kazan protested alleged irregularities during parliamentary elections held in Russia on December 4. Kazan police later detained around 100 participants of the rallies, mostly students. More  Hip Internet TV Channel Challenges Kremlin The Kremlin's monopoly on television news is being shattered by a hip new Internet station called Dozhd TV. The plucky start-up is less than two years old but has already attracted hundreds of thousands of regular viewers seeking an alternative to the scripted monochrome, programming offered by state-controlled channels. More  Kremlin Leaves Havel Tributes To Others Leaders from all corners of the world have paid tribute to Vaclav Havel -- dissident, revolutionary, playwright, and the first president of the Czech Republic -- who died on December 18. But from the Kremlin there has been only silence. More  Defiant Blogger Freed Ahead Of New Duma A prominent Russian blogger and anticorruption gadfly jailed over postelection protests is released from jail hours before the new State Duma opens its first session. More |
