The liberal opposition Yabloko party and the Moscow Helsinki Group are creating a public organization to finance the training of monitors for the March 4 presidential vote and other elections. The liberal opposition Yabloko party and the Moscow Helsinki Group are creating...

... with pocket computers. It said the information had been transmitted for storage in the rock by two Russian nationals, who were both in custody. One of the accused British diplomats, Marc Doe, authorized grants for 12 Russian NGOs, including the Moscow Helsinki Group and the New Eurasia Foundation, as the second secretary of the embassy's political section. Powell hinted at a link between the FSB exposing British agents and Putin's crackdown on NGOs. "Clearly they'd known about it for some time...

... to warn against foreign funding for Russian nongovernmental organizations because one of the four British diplomats implicated in the case, Marc Doe, was responsible for signing off on British government grants to Russian NGOs, including the Moscow Helsinki Group. Sorokin conceded that no human rights activists had been involved in the spying activities conducted by the British diplomats. But he accused British intelligence of "discrediting" Russian human rights activists by appointing...

... Theater Raikina has finally reopened after years of closure. And Grigory Kozlov — one of our most famous directors — got the Buff’s old building for his new troupe. So in the end, we’re up one theater. — Roland Oliphant Helsinki Bar (31 Kadetskaya Linia; +7 812-995-1995 ; helsinkibar.ru ) is a Finnish retro-themed place peddling "tasty food and northern romance." Popular with visitors from nearby Helsinki, the reasonably priced menu includes reindeer venison...

HELSINKI — Finnish automobile dealer Delta Motor Group decided to stop importing automobiles made by AvtoVAZ because of low demand, Interfax reported Tuesday. Delta, which had been importing Lada autos since 1971, will continue to service the Russian-made...

... echelons of government, including Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina, ranked fifth, and Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova, ranked sixth. Socialite and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak was seventh on the list, and Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alekseyeva was 10th. The rankings were assigned by a so-called expert council composed of 24 journalists and other figures chosen by Ekho Moskvy. The council included 22 men and two women. The experts ranked the women according...

... be moved into March, council head Mikhail Fedotov told Interfax on Monday. "The president has more important things to do than to protect the rights of his citizens," veteran human rights defender Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who heads the Moscow Helsinki Group, told The Moscow Times. The presidential vote is set for March 4. Medvedev is not seeking re-election and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win. The council's last meeting with the president took place on July 5 with...