The late Anna Politkovskaya was killed because she touched nerves and exposed injustice where it was needed.

Russian media Monday accused the security services of placing a "mole" among radical Chechen rebels who seized a Moscow theatre last October in a siege that ended with 129 deaths.

Our so-called ally in the War on Terror is led by a president who doesn't tolerate domestic criticism.

If there is anything that characterizes the new generation of Russian dissidents, it is their deep differences.

The Russian president has repudiated key tenets of Putinism, but Putin is ignoring him.

In the ten days that have passed since Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, died of radiation poisoning in London, we have learned a lot about his death--haven't we?

Images of the treatment of Vladimir Putin's political enemies are chillingly familiar.

As horrible as it was to watch the video footage from the Moscow streets around the theater where some 700 hostages were held until government forces stormed the building early this morning, it is as bitter to realize that this tragedy could have been predicted -- and in fact, was bound to happen.