Putin may have won the election, but there is no excuse for the manner in which it was handled. On the one hand, those who say that the rallies have not achieved any of its goals are right. On the other hand, they did achieve many goals that were...
On New Year’s Eve 1999, President Boris Yeltsin shocked the Russian public with a sudden resignation speech, introducing into power for the first time his then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who up until the moment had been virtually unknown...
Hot on the heels of the election, Russian gas prices have already begun to rise: Vladimir Putin’s 2011 moratorium on increases has been lifted. The Iraqi Oil Ministry has approved Norway’s Statoil selling its minority stake in the West Qurna oil ...
Hot on the heels of the election, Russian gas prices have already begun to rise: Vladimir Putin’s 2011 moratorium on increases has been lifted. The Iraqi Oil Ministry has approved Norway’s Statoil selling its minority stake in the West Qurna oil ...
Monday’s opposition protest led to Russian stocks taking a nosedive yesterday, wiping out election gains. Sberbank’s January and February profits show a 17% increase on the same period last year, but the bank is also dealing with its biggest shar...
Monday’s opposition protest led to Russian stocks taking a nosedive yesterday, wiping out election gains. Sberbank’s January and February profits show a 17% increase on the same period last year, but the bank is also dealing with its biggest shar...
TODAY: Opposition fears further crackdowns as arrests divide opinion; Putin dismisses protest link with election fraud, Gorbachev calls for the possibility of new vote; Irina Prokhorova interview; Pussy Riot members on hunger strike in custody; Sy...
Julia Ioffe’s scenes from last night’s protests rejecting the outcomes of Vladimir Putin’s massaged victory margin offer a harrowing look into the next six years (broken arms, trampled journalists, and a breakdown in chain of aut...
A great bit of investigative journalism from Newsnight’s Tim Whewell today, who reported for the BBC on various hidden aspects of the voting process: Tim and his crew followed an alleged ‘carousel’ bus of health-worker voters and confronted ...
Stephen Holmes writes in today’s Guardian about the predicament facing protesters in Russia, who came out in their thousands last night to share their views on the re-election of Vladimir Putin to the presidency. The absence of any plausible...
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