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.

On December 7, 2003, Russians go to the ballot box to elect representatives to the Duma, the lower house of their national parliament. Although such elections have become an established part of Russian political life, they take place this year in a climate of growing fear about President Vladimir Putin’s...

Russia must implement radical reforms.

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.

Khodorkovsky's fate is almost certainly being decided not in Judge Danilkin's chambers, but in the Kremlin by two people: Vladimir Putin and his protégé, the haltingly liberal president, Dmitri Medvedev.

Conversations with the new wave of Russia’s civil society opposition.

The December 19 Russian parliamentary election has produced a remarkable shift to the Center-Right.

Protests that have swept the country in the past few months point to a growing dissatisfaction with the Kremlin's policies; as the only viable political challenge to the Putin-Medvedev Kremlin, they bear careful watching.