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Published in: oDRThe free city of Moscow: reflections on Russia’s protest movementIt is easy to write off the events of the last few months as a predictable prelude to bureaucratic revanchism. But...
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Published in: oDRHow Putin can become a moderniserA majority of Russians – and not all of them opponents of Putin – demand modernisation. Yet the predominance of the...
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Published in: oDRThe tandem: hope against hope dashed!The presidential election is still 6 months away, but speculation about who would stand i.e become president had...
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Published in: oDRThe Great Terror’s long shadowDuring the perestroika years there was much talk in Russia of the need for an act of repentance to assist people to...
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Published in: oDRRussia: an opinion-poll democracyOn the eve of Presidential elections, Dmitry Medvedev has sprung to life and inserted political distance between...
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Published in: oDRRussian elections: who needs them?In the course of twelve months, Russians will go to the polls twice – first, the parliamentary elections and then...
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Published in: oDRWhen enemies are better than friendsRather than emphasising friends and allies, today's Russian leaders prefer to single out their enemies, writes...
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Published in: oDRAfter the plane crash: Russian attitudes to Katyn
The NKVD’s mass execution in 1940 of Polish officers in Katyn Forest has complicated the often tense relations...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s people: what is a just war?
Russia’s people do not bow to government opinion on the subject of war, a revealing survey of public attitudes by...
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Published in: oDRUses and abuses of Stalin’s image
The Levada Center has been monitoring Russian attitudes to Stalin for years. Alexei Levinson, reviewing changing...
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Published in: oDRSo what do Russia’s people think?
In the first of his regular monthly reports for odRussia, Alexei Levinson of Russia’s prestigious Levada Centre...
