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"The economic crisis ended in people’s minds a month ago", told me a high-ranking Russian official. Those words puzzled me rather than…
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The case of police Major Denis Yevsyukov shooting at people in a supermarket draws attention to the level of state violence in…
Many Russians do not trust the police as they consider servicemen a part of the criminal world, rather than enforcers of the…
When looking round the Russian city of Izhevsk a participant in the last week Ural Social Forum said: "Now I came to…
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The Russian government has developed a new anti-crisis plan. Although nobody has seen it yet, we can be 100 percent certain that…
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