Why Navalny Will Most Likely Be Convicted

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The odds are stacked against Navalny no matter whether the case is politically motivated. The fact is only 0.01 percent of defendants are acquitted.

The Council of Europe, the continent's oldest human rights organization, has announced an agreement to upgrade its Russian office, a sign that Russia takes the 47-member group seriously, a spokesman said, at a time when the Kremlin routinely rejects outside criticism of its rights record.

French actor Gerard Depardieu, visiting Grozny to film a new movie, said the ethnic Chechen brothers accused of the Boston bombing had been raised American and that residents of Chechnya were not to blame.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Wednesday that the Defense Ministry would bear responsibility for the pricing of military equipment, despite Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's earlier plans to get rid of the function.

Igor Kim snapped up cast-off assets from foreign banks pulling out of Russia, and now the banker says he wants to expand into Europe.

Despite his best efforts, McDonald's Russia founder George Cohon did not manage to have his golden arches planted on Russian soil in time for the 1980s Olympic Games in Moscow, but his company will get a triumphant welcome in Sochi as the event's official restaurant.

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Calendar Listings: May 23 - May 29, 2013

An aspiring executive competing in Theater of Nations' "The Gronholm Method." Their psychological evaluations happen in bizarre situations.

The Universe of Sound: Francisco Liberona in a concert of guitar music. Conservatory Rachmaninov Hall. Saturday, May the 25th, 7 p.m.

Eugene Onegin: a simple and dazzling staging of Tchaikovsky's opera by Sergei Artsibashev with sets by Sergei Barkhin. Novaya Opera. Wednesday, May 29th at 7 p.m.

Pyotr Mamonov: rock musician, songwriter and actor. Gogol Club. Friday, May the 24th at 8 p.m.

Opinion

By Vasily Kashin

The Fogle case shows the CIA's newfound readiness to pay big money to obtain secrets from foreign intelligence agents.

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Since early March, 94 Russian NGOs in 28 regions have been inspected in a state campaign of harassment and intimidation.

Some government officials, particularly younger ones, and businessmen have a tendency to copy President Vladimir Putin's intonation and straightforward rhetoric.

An unofficial delegation of U.S. history buffs and Native Americans have marked the 200th anniversary of the founding of Fort Ross, once Russia's southernmost North American colony, with a friendship tour of Russia that included a search for artifacts and long-lost relatives.

President Vladimir Putin has revised the state's repatriation program, simplifying the process for former compatriots to move back to Russia and bring relatives along with them. But analysts doubt that the changes will significantly alter migration flows.

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By John Freedman

Of the lesser-known great figures of Russian letters Pyotr Chaadayev surely is one of the finest and most interesting.

Beyond Moscow

"The damned city of Kishinev" is how Alexander Pushkin described this small town in the territory formerly known as Bessarabia. The poet's outburst is understandable, because he was forced to spend three years in exile in a place, which was, in his opinion, comparable with Sodom.

A traveler to Kolomna shouldn't rush to put a checkmark next to this city's name on his list of places visited, since this ancient town has so much charm he'll want to return.

It's not often that something positive is born out of the destruction of war, but Lipetsk is one such example. In the beginning of the 18th century, after Peter the Great started the Great Northern War with Sweden, his main supplier of iron, he needed to find domestic sources to compensate.

When Anton Chekhov decided to visit this remote island in Russia's Far East in 1890, his close friend, journalist Alexei Suvorin, argued, "There is nothing interesting on Sakhalin!"

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