Far from enhancing the Putin regime's legitimacy, the election will diminish it further in the eyes of a significant part of the Russian population.

Thousands gathered in Moscow over the weekend to protest Russia’s falsified parliamentary election. The demonstrators gave the Kremlin a two-week ultimatum to schedule a new election, allow liberal political parties to appear on the ballot, and release opposition members detained during protests earlier in the week.

After years of undeniable—if uneven—progress in Russia, a rising chorus of critics is warning that President Vladimir Putin has taken the country in a dangerous and destabilizing new direction. From the pursuit of a heavy-handed foreign policy to the recentralization of power in the Kremlin and the assault on the...

After years of undeniable if uneven progress in Russia, a rising chorus of critics is warning that President Vladimir Putin has taken the country in a dangerous and destabilizing new direction. From the pursuit of a heavy-handed foreign policy to the recentralization of power in the Kremlin and the assault...

The death of Yuri Levada, the dean of Russian sociologists and pollsters, signifies the end of a remarkable era for Russia's intelligentsia.

The Moscow City Duma election of December 2005 yields clues to national trends in voter attitudes and how the parties should strategize in advance of the 2007 national elections.

Russia's population will find its access to food diminished by deep depreciation of the ruble, unemployment, and inflation.

Russia is facing a systemic crisis, and the only way out of it lies in dismantling the defining political, economic, and social features of Putinism.