The Russian president has repudiated key tenets of Putinism, but Putin is ignoring him.

Russia's economic ambitions are at odds with its population trend.

Vladimir Putin will likely run for president of Russia in 2012; Dmitri Medvedev faces a stark dilemma: be a Khrushchev or a Gorbachev?

Former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar and Russia observers discuss the future of Russian capitalism.

With few born and far too many dying, Russia is caught in a demographic straitjacket.

Alarming demographic and healthtrends make it difficult for Russia to propel much-needed economic growth and development.

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.

Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's rhetoric may portend a break with the policies of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, but to prove he means what he says, Medvedev should begin redressing some of the most conspicuous miscarriages of justice that marked the Putin regime.