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Mayoral race results in hunger strike

April 12, 2012 Alexander Kilyakov
The opposition in Russia continues its crusade for free and fair elections. Its latest high-profile action is a hunger strike in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan

No arab spring in Russian winter

April 2, 2012 Dmitry Babich
The headlines from the Western media outlets such as “Putin’s pyrrhic victory” and “The end of Putinism?” were rampant, but was there ever any real chance of the so-called “snow revolution” toppling Putin?

Authorities cracked down the opposition

March 5, 2012 RIA Novosti
Police detained several opposition activists including vocal anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny and leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov during the rally in Pushkin Square in central Moscow

Putin wins again

March 5, 2012 Vladimir Babkin
It was no surprise that Vladimir Putin won a third term as Russia's president, and the reason cannot be explained simply by calling the elections "fraudulent"

Another step to support fair elections

February 26, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
Sunday's rally in support for fair elections has opposition still hoping to establish the dialogue with the authorities a week ahead of the presidential vote

Most Russians won’t support nationalists

February 21, 2012 Leokadia Drobizheva, Ogoniok magazine
Leokadia Drobizheva, the director of the Center for Study of Interethnic Relations of the Sociology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke to the Ogoniok magazine about nationalism in modern Russia

Political fraud fuels civil action

February 16, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
Young people looking for a way to get involved in creating a fair electoral system in Russia are finding their way thanks to online activism

Monitor that!

February 2, 2012 Yulia Ponomareva, The Moscow News
A new project of Russia's prominent anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, RosVybory, aims at monitoring the upcoming presidential elections. But will it be successful like Navalny's previous project Rospil?