Latest posts by Veronica Khokhlova from February, 2011
Russia: Artyom Charukhin's Truth-Telling Case
The Power Vertical reports on the case of a Moscow police officer who admitted in a courtroom that he had forged a police report on the arrest of opposition activist Ilya Yashin.
Russia: Guardian's Luke Harding Expelled From Russia
Julia Ioffe, Sean Guillory and Anatoly Karlin write about the expulsion of Guardian's Moscow correspondent Luke Harding from Russia.
Russia: Doku Umarov's Belated Statement on Domodedovo
In Moscow's Shadows analyzes Doku Umarov's belated statement, in which he claimed responsibility for the Jan. 24 Domodedovo Airport suicide attack.
Egypt: “The West Faces Another Bosnia Moment”
Greater Surbiton writes that “in the Egyptian crisis today, Western leaders face another Bosnia moment.”
Russia: The Law on the Police
A detailed analysis of Russia's Law on the Police – at A Good Treaty: “The law’s opponents sometimes downplay it as nothing more than a change of two letters (from militsiia to politsiia) […].” LJ user tapirr‘s take on the renaming (RUS): “A man named Vasya lived in a small...
Belarus, Ukraine: Photographer Blogs About Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Documentary photographer Michael Forster Rothbart is guest-blogging about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone at Chernobyl Children International.