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Published in: oDRKazan’s white revolution
One of least believable returns in Russia’s disputed elections was a figure that put United Russia’s vote in...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s virtual: the new reality?
Russia's blogosphere has until recently been largely written off as a politically blunt parallel space. The Facebook...
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Published in: oDRPutin’s children: flying the nest
For years, a pact of loyalty in exchange for roubles fostered the growth of a largely apolitical middle class in...
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Published in: oDRAfter the Duma election: where is Russia heading?
Last Wednesday oDR and the Russia Foundation held a roundtable event reflecting on the country's disputed...
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Published in: oDRThe darkness is clearing: Navalny's message to protestors
Anti-corruption blogger and activist was arrested and jailed for 15 days on Dec. 5, during the first day of protests...
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Published in: oDRThe fear is over: a demonstrator’s diary
Apparent fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections has unleashed an unprecedented display of anger against Vladimir...
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Published in: oDRRussian protests: this time it’s different...
The protests against widely perceived fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections were broadcast throughout the world...
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Published in: oDRPhotostory: Russian civil society re-emerges
On Saturday, almost a week after the Duma elections, Moscow and other Russian cities and regions witnessed the...
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Published in: oDRThe beginning of the end for Putin?
Sunday’s heavily disputed election results were a disaster for the Kremlin, who seem to have underestimated the...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s history wars: access to the truth restricted – again
The trial of Mikhail Suprun has become the latest cause célèbre in Russia’s continuing history wars. A trumped up...
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Published in: oDRA defeat in all but name
United Russia may have obtained a technical victory in Sunday’s disputed parliamentary elections, but their failure...
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Published in: oDRShrugging for Putin: Russia's flawed elections
Russia holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, but with most of the important questions already well answered,...
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Published in: oDRWhy Putin still has a lot to learn from Machiavelli
The catcalls that greeted Vladimir Putin when he appeared at a sports event in Moscow show that for many Russians,...
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Published in: oDRRussia's silent election campaign
Russia goes to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections, yet Grigorii Golosov has failed to notice much of a...
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Published in: oDRRussia beyond 2012: the challenges of the network state
In a Russia that is neither a traditional authoritarian regime run by hereditary dynasty, nor a true democracy with...
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Published in: oDRPostcard from the edge: an election view from Sakhalin
The island of Sakhalin, once described by Chekhov as ‘hell’, lies six time-zones removed from Moscow in the Russian...
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Published in: HomeFixing Russian elections: manipulation (voters) and massage (results)
Russia will hold a general election in December. ‘United Russia’, the party in power, has to win and will do all it...
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Published in: oDRRussia's Communists: the paper tigers of the opposition
Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Communist Party is enjoying a mini-revival as a channel...
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Published in: oDRDark blue thread: resisting a sewn-up election
As Putin once more readies himself for the presidency, Elena Godlevskaya surveys the level of opposition in Oryol...
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Published in: oDRThe legend of servant Medvedev
Occupying power while showing no intent to take possession of it, faithful servant Dmitry Medvedev could not have...