Mary Dejevsky is a columnist and chief editorial writer for the Independent.

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The west's embrace can stifle. Russian democrats should turn back, look inwards and think forward, says Mary Dejevsky.

The departure of a president who put Russia back on the world map will be a crucial test of the country's constitutional and democratic processes, says Mary Dejevsky.

A Soviet-era perspective suggests to Mary Dejevsky that Russia’s current population trends offer grounds for optimism.

What have airport queues to do with democracy and citizenship? Everything, says Mary Dejevsky.

The fury of western human-rights groups over Russia’s law regulating NGOs is hypocritical, says Mary Dejevsky.