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...
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...
Mars attacks
The latest "attack of the aliens" happened in St. Petersburg on January 14.
Ivan Yelin, an anti-fascist activist, was on his way home that evening...
POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE MEDIA IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN: SEPTEMBER 7 IS D-DAY
Sometime this week - presumably on September 7 - the president is expected to issue the decree launching the parliamentary election campaign.
According to the...
The party M&A market: the new right
At a meeting last week, the Union of Right Forces (SPS) political council voted to disband the party. The former SPS and its political...
PARTIES AND RATINGS: HOW TO COMBINE THE PEOPLE’S LOVE AND THE KREMLIN’S LIKING?
The recent fall of the United Russia party's popularity rating was rather scandalous. However, the Sunday edition of "Vesti" solemnly declared that there was...
UPCOMING ELECTIONS AND RUSSIA’S PROSPECTS: FROM VLADIMIR PUTIN TO IVAN THE TERRIBLE
The dismissal of Gazprom-Media chief executive Boris Jordan clearly demonstrates that despite what all the analysts are saying about the next elections being just...
CAMPAIGN OVERTURE: PARTY GAMES AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF TWO CREEPING COUPS
"There is no such thing as a friend during an election campaign." That was the slogan Boris Nemtsov used as an ornament for his...
THE PARTIES AND THE ELECTORATE: IS IT POSSIBLE FOR RUSSIA TO HAVE AN INTERMEDIARY...
Novoe Vremya magazine has done some research into the mood of the Russian electorate, less than three months before voting day. It cites a...
When Medvedev becomes president: network government, youth politics, and relations with the West
The media are predicting that Russia will soon see some state administration reforms, changes to youth politics, and milder dialogue with the West. These...