THE LAND OF TRIUMPHANT BUREAUCRACY ON THE EVE OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
"Who is Mr. Putin?" That question, asked at Davos four years ago, no longer seems to be of interest to either Russia or the...
The results of the president’s first five years: Vladimir Putin is going out of...
March 14 marked a year since Vladimir Putin was re-elected for a second term. The press and the pollsters have been looking at the...
Limonov is being isolated from the media
Late last week, several parties called for a boycott of the Gazeta newspaper, which published an interview with Eduard Limonov, writer and National Bolshevik...
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S MAY INTERNATIONAL MARATHON: WEST IS WEST, EAST IS EAST
As expected, assessments of the Russia-US, Russia-NATO and Russia-EU summits in May have been very diverse. Each publication, in accordance with its own carefully-constructed...
Successor 2008 – who will be worse than Putin?
"They need a classic enemy whom they will heroically fight before the eyes of the nation and the rest of the world" - this,...
The Moscow city election: a dress rehearsal
With the Moscow city legislature election only days away, the press has looked back to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzkhov's promise, made in early autumn,...
TEN YEARS OF DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA: THE TRIUMPH OF ORDER
Exactly ten years ago - on June 12, 1991 - the first president of Russia was elected. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper notes, this...
"NOT ONE STEP BACK!" – ALL SIDES POSITION THEMSELVES FOR CAMPAIGN BATTLES
"A moratorium on reforms." "Reforming the reforms." "The end of the military reforms." "Tryshkin's taxes." These are just some of the headlines from the...
AN AUGUST COUP TODAY: CONTINUITY AND PROSPECTS
August tends to be a fateful month for Russia. It's been that way since 1914 - as Vladimir Ryzhkov, Duma deputy and historian, noted...
The Kremlin’s new course: "The enemy is at the gates"
A noteworthy interview with Vladislav Surkov about the Kremlin's "new course," published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, has set off a debate in the press, with...