Left, right…
A new alliance of parties has emerged in Russia. The People's Party, the Patriots of Russia, the Russia's Renaissance Party, the Social Justice Party...
Running out of St. Petersburg people
On Wednesday, July 23, President Dmitri Medvedev attended a human resources policy meeting held at Gorky, outside Moscow. He said: "Senior appointment decisions are...
Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Moscow and A brilliant future for Russia
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Moscow has provided further evidence for the old formula: the number of publications equals - no, not...
Plots and characters of the week: Dorenko, Berezovsky, Putin
On Monday, the Echo of Moscow radio company suggested a question to its listeners: whether Konstantin Ernst was independent in deciding to cancel Sergei...
Just Russia: aboard the same ship
The Just Russia party (Spravedlivaya Rossiya) is holding its third congress on April 25 at the State Kremlin Palace. Just Russia plans to completely...
The YUKOS affair a year later: the method of "dry sublimation"
Monday, October 25 marked exactly a year since Mikhail Khodorkovsky - then president of YUKOS, the largest oil company in Russia - was arrested...
Russia’s pro-democracy movement: splitting before uniting
Opposition conferences took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow on April 5 and 6.
Activists gathered for the "New Agenda for the Pro-Democracy Movement" conference...
THE DEATH OF PAUL KHLEBNIKOV, ENEMY OF THE OLIGARCHS
"Killed twice": that is how the Russian press is describing Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, who was murdered...
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST A BACKDROP OF USING FORCE; OR, HOW MUCH IS A...
It has long been said that politicians are becoming nonentities; that almost all political parties taking part in elections have indistinguishable policy programs; that...
RUSSIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A DECADE OF REFORMS, AND 150 YEARS SINCE THE...
There is hardly a publication in Russia that missed a chance to declare its standpoint on the results of the first decade of reforms...





