CAMPAIGN PASSIONS ON THE POLITICAL STAGE: THE RUSSIAN VOTER AS SLEEPING BEAUTY
Vladimir Putin's presence at the pre-campaign congress of the United Russia party has drawn the entire spectrum of responses from various politicians and publications:...
The Year 2007 Problem: United Russia’s plan has been changed
The solution to the Year 2007 Problem - that is, the Duma election - is becoming quite clear six months before its culmination, according...
The hopes and prospects of Russia’s liberals
"The Candy Congress" - that is how Nezavisimaya Gazeta described the Union of Right Forces (URF) congress held this week at the Izmailovo Complex...
READING THE PAPERS LIKE TEA LEAVES
The decisive actions of the new authorities, whose inevitability the national press has been writing about for so long, have started, after all. As...
The November holiday which is always with us
Reportedly, the Day of Reconciliation and Consensus has been celebrated for the last time on November 7 in 2004. Within the next few days...
President Putin to the rescue: hands (and pipelines) off Lake Baikal
"President Putin has listened to the voice of the public. There is some hope that we'll have a full-fledge civil society after all." Alexei...
The party’s election position: "If Putin steps down…"
Oleg Kulikov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, recently said in Literaturnaya Gazeta that the lull between elections is over. It...
Russian politics after the elections: new variations on old themes
In the wake of Vladimir Putin's "overwhelming victory" at the presidential election (as described by Moskovskie Novosti chief editor Yevgeny Kiselev), articles devoted to...
Vladimir Putin has a new potential successor
Could Ramzan Kadyrov become the president of Russia? That question is being asked with increasing frequency in the Russian media. It was first mentioned...
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE RIGHT: A NEW LIFE, OR A WAKE FOR...
"The first-wave democrats have disbanded," Izvestia reported on Monday. Last Saturday Russia lost two of its political parties. The final congress of Russia's Democratic...
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