Elections in Russia

Capital Punishment

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is still the second largest party in the Parliament, which in the eyes of some makes it “the only opposition.” With just 12 percent of seats in the State Duma, roughly...

Newsweek Editor: Putin Imitated Bush's Dictatorial Ways

Who knew America had stopped being a democracy? Newsweek rounded up its own international editors to assess just how world-historical the election of Obama is. Mikhail Fishman, the editor of Newsweek Russia (or Russkiy...

US Ambassador to Prague Richard Graber: Our policy on the radar won’t change

Nov 10, 2008

In this edition of One on One, we talk to the US ambassador to the Czech Republic Richard Graber about current issues in Czech-American relations including the positioning of a planned US radar base on Czech territory,...

Moscow flexes muscle in Ukraine

Armed with petrodollars and success in restoring control over two enclaves in the Caucasus, Russia is increasing political pressure on Ukraine and trying to dampen its aspirations for NATO membership and...

What the world expects from Obama

What does the rest of the world expect from the next US president? Correspondents for Radio Netherlands Worldwide* write about the wishes and fears of people in Africa, Central Europe, China, Latin America and the Middle East....

Medvedev's State of the Nation: Letter to Barack or Putin?

By Dr. Paul Goode paulgoode@ou.edu Dept. of Political Science University of Oklahoma The day after the US presidential election, Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev gave his annual address ­ the rough equivalent of the “state of...

Oleg Kozlovsky: First Amendment, Russian Edition

I'm pleased to have another contribution here from Oleg Kozlovsky, whom I had the opportunity of meeting with last month. - Robert Amsterdam] First Amendment, Russian Edition Oleg Kozlovsky, Coordinator of Oborona youth...

Outside View: Obama bad news for Russia

Paris (UPI) Nov 6, 2008 - According to a widely held view, the election of Barack Obama is good news for Russia. The new U.S. president, the argument runs, will abandon the confrontational style of George W. Bush and adopt a...

Thousands of opposition supporters rally against Saakashvili

Moscow/Tbilisi - Nearly 10,000 Georgian opposition supporters demonstrated against President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday, the first major rallies since Georgia's war with Russia in August. The march marked the first...

Duma Deputy Calls U.S. Election Unfair

07 November 2008A senior lawmaker has criticized the U.S. presidential election as unfair and accused European election observers of failing to take Washington to task for "quite a lot of violations." Leonid Slutsky, the first...