A few weeks ago my blog offered a Kremlin insider’s account of the spy wars and the campaign against Sergei Storchak and Alexei Kudrin. Our contributor, who must remain anonymous for clear reasons, has again sent in the following excellent d...
Opposition leaders like Garry Kasparov drew a big cross on their ballot papers during the State Duma elections on December 2nd, 2007- their verdict on what they call a rigged election. (AFP/BBC) It has been recorded that United Russia has received...
An op/ed in the Times of London argues that Putin is in danger of believing his own publicity: If he is sincere in ruling out the constitutional amendment that would allow him a third term, he has two options: to install a puppet such as his curre...
From a great article in WSJ today: As liberty recedes in Russia, Mr. Gorbachev’s stance raises a question: Is the former Soviet president a savvy politician who sees democratic instincts in Mr. Putin that his critics have missed? Or has he b...
When I was growing up in the Bronx, when somebody cheated during one of our many street games, they were in no way declared a legitimate winner. This apparently is not the case in the majority of the English-language media’s coverage of the ...
Vote and dance – thinking is optional The elections in the Russian backwoods, part I Grigory Pasko, journalist Kirzhach is a small town in Vladimir Oblast, 130 kilometers southeast of Moscow. Historians note that Kirzhach arose as a sloboda [settl...
From today’s Observer comment section: And yet Mr Putin has his defenders in the West, including business people in Britain who want to invest in Russia. Mr Putin, they argue, has at least brought stability after the kleptocratic chaos of th...
Robert Coalson at RFE/RL writes about the five myths of Russia’s elections: 1) President Vladimir Putin is popular, 2) Parties matter, 3) Issues matter, 4) Election rules matter, and 5) Election results will reflect the public will. Coalson ...
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