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Published in: oDRKudrin’s warningRussia's ruling tandem have hung their economic policy high up on a mast: oil prices will hold, they say … and,...
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Published in: oDRWhere have all Russia's citizens gone?Russian political observers have been titillated by Medvedev’s announcement that he will not be running for...
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Published in: oDRRise of the lumpen elite: is this really what we fought for?The great battles waged on behalf of democracy in the 20th century have ended in crisis, proposes the painter and...
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Published in: oDRSecret mice and liberal hallucinations (or why the fatherland and freedom are strategically incompatible)The liberals' reaction to President Medvedev’s voluntary political suicide might well be described as ‘gloating...
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Published in: oDRRussian elections: the abandoned script
Internal and external pressures seem to have triggered a radical readjustment in the Kremlin’s pre-election...
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Published in: oDRSame Putin, different RussiaPutin could theoretically remain in power until 2024. But his plans could be undermined by the change in...
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Published in: oDRRussian regional elections: Oryol's two-horse raceIn Western Russia's Red Belt effectively only the Communist Party and 'United Russia' are fielding candidates, often...
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Published in: oDRPutin/Medvedev: be careful what you wish for…Putin’s announcement that he and Medvedev had decided long ago who would be president in 2012 has caused a furore in...
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Published in: oDRReflections on Mikhail Prokhorov and the Right CauseRussian electoral politics are a minefield and nothing demonstrates it more clearly than the recent debacle 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: oDRA Putative president for Russia, in for life...Putin’s recent announcement that he would be “standing for” president caught people off guard, as it was intended...
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Published in: oDREpilogue: a minister fallsThe resignation of Russia's finance minister Aleksey Kudrin is a much more significant event than the Putin-Medvedev...
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Published in: oDRPrologue: an oligarch fallsThe Russian election campaign is hotting up. In the middle of September Mikhail Prokhorov was dismissed as leader of...
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Published in: oDRThe return of the street fighterRussia’s strongman Vladimir Putin has decided that the time has come for him to return to Kremlin. oD Russia author...
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Published in: oDRPravoye delo: why the Kremlin puppeteers broke Prokhorov’s stringBillionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s appointment as leader of the pro-market liberal party ‘Right Cause’ was greeted with...
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Published in: oDRRussian opposition: inside or outside the system?The parliamentary election has been called for 4 December and the jockeying for position among the opposition...
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Published in: oDRThe golden ticket: voting for MatviyenkoWhen St Petersburg journalist Alexandra Garmazhapova attended a closed meeting in the local district administration,...
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Published in: oDRPutin's Russia — "United", but not realThe elections are drawing nearer and Putin’s United Russia party has stepped up its claims to represent the real...
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Published in: oDRMikhail Prokhorov: gilt-edged whipping boy for the Russian elections?The recent appointment of Mikhail Prokhorov as leader of the liberal party Right Cause is puzzling. He’s the third...
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Published in: HomeMatviyenko: the governor nobody wanted
The ever-shifting political landscape in Russia has been gripped by the latest turn of events. Valentina Matviyenko,...
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