Locked doors and stunts: trials of Kremlin critics
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For Russian opposition campaigner and  former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, even something as  simple as holding a meeting can be an obstacle course.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Shut out of elections and barred from television screens, Russia's tiny band of die-hard Kremlin opponents now believe street protests are the only way to make their voice heard.
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For Russians, the Kremlin&#39;s initial response to last Tuesday&#39;s nearly simultaneous plane crashes seemed all too familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya.
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Freedom of speech is one of Russia's major accomplishments in recent 15 years. Now Russian journalists do not have to look back at the Kremlin to have an opportunity to set forth their own views on both home ...
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Humans have a tendency to believe what they want to believe. So it was little wonder that when the &quot;Orange Revolution&quot; broke out in the ex-Soviet republic of Ukraine in late November, many Americans
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The Kremlin's strategy is beginning to take shape.
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The Kremlin is tired of Western criticisms Â that Russia is becoming more authoritarian, human rights are violated, journalists are at risk and elections are rigged.
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Putin aveva criticato lo scudo spaziale e ricordato il 1962
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MOSCOW -- Maxim Kantor is a big man who thinks big thoughts. For almost 30 years, his apocalyptic paintings, grim despite their primary colors, have depicted Russia as a yawning void, devouring its citizens. Discovered as an underground artist during the period of openness in the 1980s known as glasnost, Kantor experienced quick and heady success in Western Europe....
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James Rodgers in Moscow examines the ups and downs of Russian-style capitalism.
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MOSCOW -- The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early yesterday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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Scotland Yard traced the final steps of a former KGB spy turned Kremlin critic after officials determined he was poisoned by a rare radioactive substance
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A billionaireÂs attempt to block an article in the Russian language edition of Forbes magazine has raised questions about intimidation of the press in Russia.
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Critics see Moscow's hand in the poisoning, while Putin supporters point to an anti-Russia conspiracy.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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MOSCOW -- When a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia erupted in explosions last month, viewers who rushed to turn on state-run Channel 1 were treated to a film, ''Lady with a Parrot.&quot; They wouldn't have fared much better on Channel 2, which stuck to a travelogue.
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When the Kremlin came for billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company, he fought back and found himself in a Siberian prison. When it came for billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev's oil company, he agreed to sell and went into hiding to avoid arrest.