Kidnappings – Johnson's Russia List

JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia Safe? U.S. Adds to New Kidnapping Threat List Along With Iran, Venezuela and These Other Countries” – Newsweek/ Tom O’Connor

April 12, 2019 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Terrorism, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

“The United States has named Russia in a list of nearly three dozen countries where it warned its citizens risk being kidnapped …. State Department’s travel advisories for 35 nations featured a ‘K’ that signifies ‘the risks of kidnapping and hostage taking by criminal and terrorist actors …’ The department said that the use of a new indicator … was […]

The Year Of The Troll

December 11, 2015 JRL Russia List Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Military, Turkey, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War

File Photo of Kremlin Tower, St. Basil's, Red Square at Night

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Brian Whitmore – December 10, 2015) For much of the year, Russian bombers, warships, and submarines played chicken with NATO with provocative incursions into member states’ sea and airspace. And as the year drew to a close, Moscow finally got burned when Turkey’s air force shot down a Su-24 warplane. The incident, which has led to […]

Fear and loathing in Dagestan

December 11, 2012 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Health, Epidemics, Substance Abuse, Human Rights

(Moscow News – themoscownews.com – Anna Arutunyan – Dec. 10, 2012) Doctor Marat Gunashev didn’t even have time to change his slippers when masked law enforcement officials led him out of the surgery room on the morning of Nov. 28 and placed a bag over his head. The patient he was administering anesthesia to was left lying on the table. […]

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Leave a comment Dagestan, Human Rights, Kidnappings, Torture

NEWSLINK: The Putin Crackdown: First he went after the punk rockers. Then the activists.

November 2, 2012 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Oil, Gas, Energy, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Spies, Spy Allegations, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(“The Putin Crackdown: First he went after the punk rockers. Then the activists.” – Wall Street Journal Editorial – November 1, 2012 – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578087152147315198.html) A Wall Street Journal editorial calls for Congresss to pass the Magnitsky Act: Congress should get over its gridlock and pass the Magnitsky Act that bars Russian human-rights offenders from traveling to or banking in the […]

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Leave a comment G-8, Kidnappings, Magnitsky, Oil, Politics, Prosecutions, Putin, Torture, U.S.-Russian Relations, YUKOS, YUKOS, Khodorkovsky

Inquiry Begins Into Razvozzhayev’s Abduction – Human Rights Activists

November 1, 2012 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War

Leonid Razvozzhayev file photo with hand to ear, as if holding cellphone

MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) – An inquiry into the abduction of Russian opposition figure Leonid Razvozzhayev in Ukraine has begun, Moscow Public Oversight Commission head and Moscow Helsinki Group member Valery Borshchev said. Commission members again visited Razvozzhayev at the Lefortovo detention facility on Wednesday. “A detective has been assigned to investigate the abduction. Razvozzhayev has met with him,” Borshchev […]

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Leave a comment Kidnappings, Opposition, Politics, Prosecutions, Protests, Putin, Razvozzhayev, Repression, Torture, Ukraine

NEWSLINK: Prospect of show trial stirs some Russians’ memories of Stalinism; Some Russian activists are drawing parallels between a potential ‘mega-trial’ for leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov and Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s. But the comparison remains controversial.

November 1, 2012 JRL Russia List Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, History, Soviet Union, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Religion, Spies, Spy Allegations, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War

(Prospect of show trial stirs some Russians’ memories of Stalinism; Some Russian activists are drawing parallels between a potential ‘mega-trial’ for leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov and Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s. But the comparison remains controversial. – Christian Science Monitor – By Fred Weir – October 30, 2012 – http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/1030/Prospect-of-show-trial-stirs-some-Russians-memories-of-Stalinism) The Christian Science Monitor reports on concerns by some onlookers […]