BBC Monitoring
A roundup of today's Russian-language newspapers
Opposition leaders and human rights groups on Wednesday lambasted the apparent kidnapping and torture of Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhayev as a return to Stalinist political repression and an unprecedented escalation in the crackdown against dissenters.
Russians view the ruling elite as aggressive and predatory and believe that revolution is one of the only realistic ways to change the government, according to a report released Wednesday by an influential think tank.
The Moscow Times
Senior lawmakers on Wednesday criticized a resolution by the European Parliament to establish a list of banned Russians similar to one under discussion in the U.S. Congress.
You will probably never be the mayor of Moscow and may not even become the city's chief architect.
When consumer electronics company M.Video was transforming itself into a nationwide chain, it had to make a choice: set up the information-technology systems for far-flung stores on its own or hire external specialists to do the job.
The Moscow Times
The Foreign Ministry denied Wednesday that a Russian ship seized by Nigerian authorities had been smuggling weapons.
The Moscow Times
A drunk driver who killed five orphaned teens, their guardian and her husband at a Moscow bus stop last month has been sued for $2.67 million in damages, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Wednesday.
The Moscow Times
Pussy Riot punk rocker Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will serve out the prison sentence she received for a profanity-laced performance in a Moscow cathedral in the company of an accomplice in a high-profile murder case, her lawyer said Wednesday.