“The Killer” by Mikhail Bulgakov

Doctor Yashvin snorted and asked with a strangely twisted smile: May I tear a page off the calendar? It`s exactly … More

Muslims on Faked Charges

By Yelena RYABININA and Svetlana GANNUSHKINA, The Civic Assistance Committee (2005) In many Russian regions there is currently a concerted … More

By Alexei SIMONOV (2005) After a decade of freedom, the government has taken the national media firmly back under its … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON (2003) One year after Russia’s new Criminal Procedure Code came into force on 1 July 2002, the … More

INVESTORS from Japan and the USA are eyeing the oil and gas fields off Sakhalin’s east coast and squaring up … More

MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10 December nearly sixty years ago, and the European Human Rights … More

“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More

Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More

A short story (2003) When Shodo came in from the cumquat grove his wife said there had been a strange … More

An interview with Anna POLITKOVSKAYA (2005) Index on Censorship took advantage of the presence of Russian — and other one-time … More

The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in … More

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More

No heart is more merciful than the tsar’s, the old saying goes. Russian President Vladimir Putin stood that proverb on … More

Relatives of media workers killed in the NATO attack on Radio Television Serbia in 1999, along with one survivor, bring … More