One of the many threads to emerge from the dramatic events of last week is the ascendant role of social media. It was widely publicized last week that, prior to the protest rally in Moscow on Saturday, a Facebook group attracted 20,000 names who p...
Today’s news is packed with all sorts of opinion articles speculating on what sort of brave new world we are looking at after the December 10th protests. Naturally, much of this stargazing is wildly premature, but still irresistible nonethe...
There’s an interesting and revealing quote tucked away at the bottom of Ellen Barry’s piece in the New York Times today: There seemed little concern about that in the huge, swirling crowd, where university students chanted alongside el...
There’s an interesting and revealing quote tucked away at the bottom of Ellen Barry’s piece in the New York Times today: There seemed little concern about that in the huge, swirling crowd, where university students chanted alongside el...
Taken by surprise, the December 10th protests across Russia mark a turning point in Russian history, as Putin's social contract breaks down and citizens look to exercise more influence on the political process.
One tends not to think of Vladimir Putin as a sensitive soul, but with the level of negative energy surging towards him this week, many have taken time to consider what political coping mechanisms he may employ to deal with his new-found unpopular...
One tends not to think of Vladimir Putin as a sensitive soul, but with the level of negative energy surging towards him this week, many have taken time to consider what political coping mechanisms he may employ to deal with his new-found unpopular...
‘Politically passive’, is how David Hearst from the Guardian describes the Russian protest movement, in an article in which he debunks comparisons between the Arab Spring and the Moscow demonstrations of the past two days. Hearst disc...
Soldiers have been sent into the streets of Moscow to deal with a second night of protesters attempting to rally in Triumfalnaya Square against the weekend’s election results in which United Russia, despite a litany of abuses of the electora...
Soldiers have been sent into the streets of Moscow to deal with a second night of protesters attempting to rally in Triumfalnaya Square against the weekend’s election results in which United Russia, despite a litany of abuses of the electora...
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