"The grip of corruption continues unabated. It holds the whole economy by the throat." This bleak diagnosis did not come from a hardened opposition...

This year the European Court of Human Rights is expected to decide on the Yukos case. Now, after Natalya Vasilyeva and Igor Kravchenko have spoken...

The Soviet Union was a highly paternalistic state, providing its citizens with free education and health services and comparatively high state pensions...

There is something perplexing in Russian legal history. We can almost never say with confidence whether the law stands up for what is right or whether...

If Medvedev really wants to transform the justice system, he should care less about new laws but more about how the existing laws are being followed. In...

In a country where about a third of the population live below the poverty level, the system of juvenile justice — a seemingly good and timely idea —...

Russians’ attitude toward self-government seems a bit like St. Augustine’s stand on chastity: Give it to us, Lord, but not now.
In theory, shifting...

In 1892, Aron Salomon, a boot maker from East London, set up a company called Salomon & Co., Ltd. The case that resulted, Salomon vs. Salomon, is a cornerstone...

In April 1992, just before the British parliamentary elections, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, an organization consisting of about...

In 2006, Pavel Durov, then a 21-year-old student at St. Petersburg State University, founded VKontakte, now one of the most popular web sites in Russia...

Sweden is best known in Russia for two things: IKEA, a furniture giant that has opened a dozen mega-stores and owns several sawmills here, and Karlsson...

Few things can ignite Russian society as much as a noisy case of criminal prosecution for computer piracy. When the case involves huge, powerful Microsoft...