Full Coverage: Russian Federation

14.10.2009 Some fascinating documentaries feature in the Russian Film Festival, including a profile of the Dalai Lama and six films capturing the surreal side of the Russian provinces and providing a window into contemporary life beyond Moscow.

12.08.2009 Chechnya is becoming "a death zone for human rights workers", says a US-based monitoring body.

03.08.2009 Conflicts in Afghanistan, China, Chechnya and Nigeria deteriorated in July 2009 and the situation in Guinea-Bissau improved, according to the International Crisis Group.

02.08.2009 Suppression of human rights groups, which became fashionable in Putin's Russia, is catching on elsewhere as countries introduce laws which make life difficult for civil society. Guardian

20.04.2009 BP and Exxon continue to ignore requests to join consultations with an international scientific panel to work to protect the world’s most endangered whales, threatened by oil and gas development around Sakhalin Island in Far East Russia, say campaigners.

25.02.2009 Protected forest in Russia, including a “maternity hospital” for the Amur tiger and unique Korean pine stands, have been sold for logging in controversial circumstances and in the face of protests by the local population and an environmental group.

18.02.2009 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed outlawing fishing with drift nets, otherwise known as “walls of death”, following a lengthy campaign by fishermen, politicians in Kamchatka and NGOs.

12.02.2009 A petition signed by more than 8,000 people has been handed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin against the construction of a hydroelectric power station in Siberia that critics say would threaten the indigenous population as well as the local ecosystem.

17.11.2008 The public has been admitted to the trial of four men in connection with the murder of outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, though no mastermind or hit-man is among the defendants.

28.04.2008 "After eight years of Putin, the country has a rubber-stamp parliament dominated by a single party, whose only stated policy is loyalty to the Kremlin," writes Fred Weir in Moscow.

27.04.2008 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son's documentary about his dad. But what a dad!

06.03.2008 Although he owes his advancement to Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia, says Andreas Umland.
From Prospect

29.02.2008 Energy is the key to Europe's new relationship with Russia - and supposedly Moscow's weapon of choice in its plan for European domination. Yet this new Cold War is not inevitable, says Misha Glenny.
From: New Statesman

21.02.2008 Key members of a smuggling ring trading tiger skins and bear parts into China will face trial in March after a six-month operation in the Russian far east.

01.02.2008 Russia's application for a caviar export quota makes nonsense of a commercial caviar harvesting ban intended to help the recovery of the decimated sturgeon populations of the Caspian Sea basin, WWF Russia has claimed.

28.01.2008 Ten journalists and two human rights defenders were arrested this Saturday during a violent protest against government repression and corruption in Ingushetia, an autonomous Russian republic bordering Chechnya.
From: Human Rights Watch

08.01.2008 Global retail giant Wal-Mart is selling products made from illegally logged timber – in turn threatening the habitat of the highly endangered Siberian tiger, according to new evidence from an environmental activism group.

04.01.2008 One of many projects launched as part of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation is a wastewater treatment project that reduces the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Russian Volga River basin.

03.01.2008 David Young outlines the diplomatic wranglings the U.S. and E.U. will have to engage in during the next three months before they "give Kosovo the green light to unilaterally declare its independence."

06.12.2007 In past years, the HIV epidemic has ravaged the populations of many former Soviet nations, the majority of victims claimed by needle sharing and drug use. Thanks to new programs such as needle exchange and harm reduction, these countries are taking big steps in the fight against HIV/AIDS.