Author's notes Pavel Ivlev

Lawyer, chairman of the Russian Economic Freedom Committee


Iron Curtain 2.0

Russian citizens may have different attitudes towards the annexation of Crimea, support for the separatists of Donbass, or the participation of Russian aerospace forces in the campaign against Islamists in the Middle East, but some of the consequences of the Kremlin's "extremely tough" foreign policy and the cooling of relations with the West, Russians, accustomed from ...


Truckers against the family business Rotenberg

Massive protests of truck drivers who disagreed with the introduction of tolls swept across the regions of Russia: from November 15, for each kilometer of mileage on federal highways, vehicles weighing over 12 tons will be charged 1.5 rubles (from March 2016 this amount will increase ...


Not oil, so an atom

Cheap oil, international sanctions, Crimea, military campaigns in Donbass and Syria - this is not a complete list of reasons for the crisis in the Russian economy. Bankers and oil workers line up at the state feeding trough, but even there, only the "fat" accumulated over the past years is saving. Even…

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