STATE CURIOSITY
SECURITY STRUCTURES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ASPIRE TO NEW POWERS
State officials and security structures aspire to additional powers.
Security structures and law enforcement agencies clamor...
DOUBLE DEFICIT
PARAMETERS OF THE THREE-YEAR BUDGET ARE TO BE ADOPTED
Try as it might, the government cannot reduce the budget deficit as fast as it would...
WRONG INNOVATIONS
THE PRESIDENT AND THE RUSSIANS DISAGREE ON WHAT MODERNIZATION SHOULD BEGIN WITH
Unlike the powers-that-be bent on economic matters alone, the population believes that modernization...
CHOICE
114 FEDERAL LAWMAKERS WILL BE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE RULING PARTY COME AUTUMN, NOT ALL OF THEM UNITED RUSSIA MEMBERS
United Russia has a good deal...
VERDICT
THE ICJ RECOGNIZED SOVEREIGNTY OF KOSOVO. ITS ARGUMENTS MIGHT BE APPLIED TO POST-SOVIET CONFLICTS AS WELL
The International Court of Justice in the Hague recognized...
SHORT-CIRCUIT
TERRORIST ACT AT THE BAKSANSKY HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT: KABARDINO-BALKARIA IS TURNING INTO ANOTHER FLASH POINT ON THE EVE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Terrorists attacked a...
ACID-BASIC EQUILIBRIUM
EXPANDING THE POWERS OF THE FSB, PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV RECOMPENSED IT FOR HIS PREVIOUS LIBERAL INITIATIVES
News powers invested in the FSB are a recompense for...
IMPRISONMENT FOR COUNSEL
PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV SUGGESTED PROSECUTION OF TERRORIST ACCOMPLICES. THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY FEARS INDISCRIMINATE APPLICATION OF THE LAW
Dmitry Medvedev: Any aid to terrorists is...
TO BE EMPOWERED
NEW POWERS OF THE FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE: WARNINGS TO INDIVIDUALS
Warning and administrative detention for insubordination: FSB's new universal instrument.
Last Friday, the Duma amended the...
WINNING TEAM
IF DMITRY MEDVEDEV IS TO WIN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2012, HE NEEDS UNITED RUSSIA MEMBERSHIP BEFORE LONG
Re-election for another term of office in 2012...