As another “colour revolution” is overthrown in Kyrgyzstan, Boris Dolgin reflects that it changed nothing. Will the country be able to sort out a more nuanced relationship with the USA, Russia and China?
Russia celebrated Victory Day on 9 May by coming up with a new way of exploiting the Victory politically. It's all very well reminding ourselves that we didn&
Extending the constitutional terms
At the heart of the recent message from the President of Russia to the Federal Assembly was the peripheral, but unsuccessful, initiative to alter the constitutional
The results of the US presidential elections always draw worldwide attention. This time it was positive. There was none of the usual resentment of the fact that the president of
Each fresh war in which the army of the new Russia takes part provokes an increasingly mixed public reaction inside the country.
Most socially active citizens did not support the
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This week polit.ru will largely be focusing on the war in the South Caucasus, which has already spread outside South Ossetia. Even events which are not directly connected with
