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A Crucial Alliance

Details: 18 April 2012; Alexander Yanov

The toxic combination of a stagnant economy and Putin's counter-reforms could make Russia a danger to Europe in the near future. According to historian Alexander Yanov, the country's greatest hope for neutralizing this threat and effecting real change is an alliance between its opposition movement and Europe.

Details: Economics

INSOR’s Unfulfilled Dreams

Details: 14 April 2012; Caterina Innocente

IMR's Caterina Innocente relates the history of INSOR, a pro-Medvedev think tank. With Putin's return to the presidency, INSOR's unsuccessful political maneuvering may leave the organization without a future.

Details: Nation

HIV/AIDS and TB: IMR Against Social Indifference

A Tribute to Vasily Aleksanyan

Details: 30 July 2012

As part of IMR's AIDS and tuberculosis advocacy project, we present a tribute page for lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan, formerly the head of the Yukos legal department and briefly the company's executive vice president. Aleksanyan died from AIDS-related tuberculosis and lymphoma in 2011. Our tribute page includes the harrowing video of Aleksanyan's last interview with leading Russian newspaper "Kommersant" and the English transcript of his few but impactful words. On July 23rd, at the XIX International AIDS Conference of 2012 in Washington, DC, IMR presented Misha Friedman's photography exhibition and conducted a panel discussion on HIV / AIDS and TB in Russia, in order to continue raising international awareness of the worsening epidemic. On Wednesday, August 1st we will publish a summary account of our exhibition and panel discussion by IMR Director, Lidiya Dukhovich.

Details: Politics

Stanislav Belkovsky: The System Must Be Destroyed, Not Reformed. An Entirely New One Must Be Created

Details: 10 April 2012; Olga Khvostunova

Russian political analyst and Director of the Institute of National Strategy Stanislav Belkovsky spoke with IMR's Olga Khvostunova on the need for a pivotal change of the state paradigm for the rebirth of Russia.

Details: Law

On A Draft of the New Russian Constitution

Details: 09 April 2012; Ekaterina Mishina

Ekaterina Mishina reports on a new draft of the Russian Constitution, which was prepared by students and two instructors from the Higher School of Economics Law School in Moscow. The central mission of the new document is transforming the status of the Russian President from a political actor to a guardian of the constitution.

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