Russian Opposition

Russian Opposition Leaders Freed

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

MOSCOW -- Two prominent Russian opposition leaders were released from detention Thursday after spending 15 days in a Moscow jail for disobeying police...

Russian Opposition Crackdown

AP | Posted 05.10.2012

MOSCOW -- Two of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders were sentenced Wednesday to 15 days in jail, while several dozen opposition activists who ...

Katyagate: Russia's Hooker Trap Snags Another Kremlin Critic, and This Time it Hurts

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

Simon Shuster

It was funny at first, but now a Kremlin critic with some actual moral standing has gotten caught up in the latest Russian honey trap, which has been baiting one opposition figure after another.

Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All.

Matvey Ganapolskiy | Posted 05.25.2011

Matvey Ganapolskiy

The opposition has legitimate grounds for suspicion: If Putin is so indifferent to worldly possessions, why is practically every key economic post filled by one of his pals?

NYET: Putin Opponents Vanish From Russian TV

New York Times | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 05.25.2011

On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail G. Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir V. Putin. When the program was la...