We've got the stenographic records about corruption in Sochi. Read the documents from Investigation Committee and General Public Prosecutor's Office about Anatoly Pahomov - the Mayor of the Sochi city.

PART I

American diplomats have lifted the lid on new, democratic Russia under Putin and Medvedev, painting an unvarnished picture of colossal corruption and brutal lawlessness, The Daily Mail wrote.

The material in diplomatic cables disclosed this week by WikiLeaks is worthy of the most fearless investigative journalist, journalist Edward Lucas suggests.

A brilliant editorial from Vedemosti, translated by the Moscow Times:

The phrase “the wild ’90s” was coined by then-President Vladimir Putin in 2007, on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections. At the time, the Kremlin’s political strategists were trying to distance the administration from the turbulent period under former President Boris Yeltsin. But will the 2000s also be remembered as wild? And if so, who will be distancing themselves from whom?

Images of thousands of young people masked in balaclavas, setting off flares and chanting “Russia for the Russians” saturated the Russian media over the weekend. More than 5000 football fans and radical nationalists gathered outside the Kremlin on Saturday to call for an investigation of the murder of Moscow football fan Yegor Sviridov, allegedly killed by migrants from the North Caucasus last Monday. The protest turned violent when a group of dark-skinned youths, presumably from the North Caucasus, were spotted by the crowd and violently attacked. The riots soon spread onto the subway, with videos showing police unable to control the unprovoked assaults.