Anti-Putin Protests

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The occasion for the assault on McConnell was a naked and cynical political setup.There was a time when the Left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it beca…

There was a time when the Left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnells loyalty to his country.  The Senate majority leaders offense is blocking Democratic-sponsored election-sec…

There was a time when the left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnells loyalty to his country. The Senate majority leaders offense is blocking Democratic-sponsored election-secu…

Vladimir Putin fears democracy so much, he wont even give the opposition a shot at winning Moscow City Council races. In a violent crackdown in the Russian capital, police this past weekend rounded up more than 1,000 demonstrators among the 8,000 whod taken …

Editor's Note: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny returned to prison today, July 29, after being hospitalized for what his lawyer called "poisoning by an unknown chemical substance." Navalny had been serving a 30-day sentence for calling an unauthorized…

As Russian President Vladimir Putin climbed into a miniature submarine and descended to the seabed in the Gulf of Finland on Saturday, Russian authorities proceeded with a violent and coordinated crackdown on unsanctioned protests in Moscow ahead of the Septe…

Moscow - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, was released Monday from a Moscow hospital after a mystery illness that his doctors say may have been the result of a poisoning. Navalny, who was arrested o…

Russian doctors say they believe that jailed Russian opposition member Alexei Navalny was poisoned. Navalny was hospitalized Sunday morning. Russian officials blamed his health issues on a "severe allergic reaction," but two Russian doctors disagreed. Who i…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- July 27 saw a new post-Soviet era record set in Moscow: 1,373 people were taken into custody following a day of protests. Meanwhile, jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny suffered a strange allergic reaction after calling for the demo…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- July 27 saw a new post-Soviet era record set in Moscow: 1,373 people were taken into custody following a day of protests. Meanwhile, jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny suffered a strange allergic reaction after calling for the demo…