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Russia's rising global profile offers its new president both test and opportunity
Polit.ru and openDemocracy launch an ambitious collaboration on Russia and the world
Russia both fears and seeks to emulate Europe. Today they are apart. But not forever...
The China threat looms large in the Russian imagination, but is not justified by the facts, suggests Bobo Lo.
The West judges ‘communist’ China more harshly than ‘democratic’ Russia, but Christoph Neidhart sees this as biased.
The uncertainty opened up by Russia’s new ‘duo-cracy’ opens up possibilities for democracy, Henry Hale reflects
What does the new Russian president want, and can he make the job his own?
A mix of constraints and choices will define Dmitry Medvedev's performance
The next Russian president's record shows that in office he will be far from Vladimir Putin's puppet
The troubled relationship between the European Union and Russia involves a fundamental clash of visions
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