Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's rhetoric may portend a break with the policies of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, but to prove he means what he says, Medvedev should begin redressing some of the most conspicuous miscarriages of justice that marked the Putin regime.

The twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the Russian revolution is a fitting occasion to assess the true scale and the impact of the national spiritual liberation known as glasnost.

The glorious revolution that swept through Russia 20 years ago ushered in a new political system, changing the country's economic foundation while creating a new state: post-imperial Russia. Where did it all go? What happened to the noble fervor, the moral clarity, the thirst for truth, the heroism?

Ronald Reagan understood the dynamics of a cold war Russia, and by sticking to his morals became a popular foreign figure to them and guided them into reform.

This book examines the Soviet Union and the gradual process of liberalization in its press and government.

Please join us for a conversation with Serguei Grigoriants about the future of Russia. Serguei has long been one of the bravest journalists in Moscow, and his groundbreaking reporting in Glasnost magazine and for the Glasnost Press Service has so antagonized successive leaders, from Gorbachev to Putin, that he...

Far from enhancing the Putin regime's legitimacy, the election will diminish it further in the eyes of a significant part of the Russian population.

Glasnostwas an astounding act of the spiritual self-liberation of a great nation.