"Ни один сколько-нибудь серьезный наблюдатель... " "No serious observer... "

Good to see that even the deceased can expect active representation...

Brrrrr!!!!!

Consular problems in the Czar's Russia.

Georgia’s politicians are hypersensitive to charges of collusion with Russia, the old imperial power. President Saakashvili denounces opposition figures for being tools of the Kremlin. But the record suggests that he might himself be vulnerable to the same charge

How Moscow lost Chisinau - a liberal Russian perspective.

Vlad wins by 1,482 to 1, of 1,389 registered voters.

I quite like the idea of skills tests for presidential candidates. (Though in this case, of course, it is a proxy for acceptability to the Russians.)

"I do not need to prove anything to anyone!"

Statistical analysis of Duma election results shows how artificial United Russia's success was.

Is the end nearing for Smirnov?

Russian President hits out at hackers who mounted DDoS attack on Livejournal.

"Conspiracy theories are often used to justify political actions. This is especially true in Russia where the 1990s are regularly portrayed as the decade when the West set out deliberately to 'weaken and humiliate' Russia... But when it comes to western motives and policy, there is one problem with the Putin and Karaganov line of ar…

Genuine tweet message from President Medvedev to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A Russian videoblog of visiting Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia and Angola. (Actually he is President Medvedev.)