Many observers see this weekend’s Russian elections as the latest stage in a regression from flawed democracy to fully fledged authoritarian state, says a new report from the European Parliament…. Read more »
Sergei Kovalev, a leading Russian dissident and human rights activist who fought for the victims of oppression in Soviet times and opposed Moscow’s war against Chechen separatists in the 1990s,… Read more »
Democracies have been bent out of shape by rising populism but autocrats are more likely to crack under pressure, as the brittle façade of Vladimir Putin’s Russia demonstrates, analyst Philip… Read more »
What is the danger to an autocratic regime if it loses control over civil society? In the latest confirmation of the Russian authorities’ disregard for a vibrant and independent civil… Read more »
Alexei Navalny grows more powerful every time Putin talks about him, one observer suggests. Police took several allies of the jailed Kremlin critic into custody early on Thursday, ahead of planned… Read more »
Experts say the weekend protests in Russia, mainly in support of arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny but also attracting members of the public angry at corruption and injustices in Russia,… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied the government’s involvement in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, saying Russian authorities would have “finished the job” had they been involved. Earlier this… Read more »
Russia has become a kleptocracy under President Vladimir Putin. As a consequence, Russia’s foreign policy has become more aggressive, argues analyst Anders Aslund. Putin has outsourced much of foreign policy… Read more »
Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Moscow will respond in kind to the European Union’s sanctions over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, The Post reports: Last week,… Read more »
Repression and fraud are unlikely to be a long-term solution for Vladimir Putin’s ‘power vertical,’ new survey evidence suggests. Police carried out searches on Wednesday at the Moscow office of… Read more »