Recently in Russia Category

Russian blogger and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has been arrested after participating in post-election protests in Moscow against the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  The BBC has a good profile of Navalny which explains how his Livejournal blog gained traction for exposing corruption: "The popularity of......more

In this New York Times article we learn of the fate of Mikhail Beketov who dared to investigate corruption in Moscow. Beketov, a former army officer, had reported from both Afghanistan and Chechnya but Russia proved to be more dangerous. As......more

Посмотреть на Яндекс.Фотках (Link to Tatiana Krasnova's album) Two female suicide bombers were believed to be responsible for the deaths of 38 commuters in Moscow at rush hour this morning. Russian officials say that 60 people were also injured in......more

A Georgian TV channel caused panic at the weekend after a mock up news report suggested Russian troops had invaded the country and President Saakashvili had been killed. Many viewers had missed a warning that went out before the broadcast.......more

Today, I've been multi-tasking: spending some time spying (with permission, I should add) on the BBC's news operation, keeping one eye on the tennis, and reading a very interesting paper on the media and the Russian invasion of Georgia.I can't......more

I've been taking a break from blogging recently but I'm hoping to get going again now September is here and those not-so-balmy August days are behind us. If you've been following the conflict and ongoing confrontation between Russia and Georgia,......more

Joshua Foust argues that blogs have not lived up to expectations in covering the Russo-Georgia War. He homes in on what he describes as 'large blogs'- the Small War Journal, Instapundit, the Washington Monthly etc. He's disappointed that they seem......more

"In its war with Georgia, the first truly global user-generated conflict, Russia's digital guerillas have been drafted into a state-waged propaganda war" The opening paragraph of an excellent article by Evgeny Morozov on Open Democracy. He argues that the Web's......more

The BBC's standard plea for information on this article about the crisis in Georgia is bothering me. On the BBC website, we learn that 'violence has flared [in Gori]', 'there are reports of cars being taken from residents at gunpoint',......more

I've just got back from an all too brief holiday and this morning I've been collecting some stuff on the conflict between Russian and Georgian forces in South Ossetia and beyond. 1. While most of the attention has rightly been......more