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The street has turned to the left

May 16, 2012 Dmitry Oreshkin, Ogoniok magazine
What do the events of May 6-7 say about the future of the Russian protest movement?

Opposition gone from Abai, but hasn’t surrendered

May 16, 2012 Dan Peleschuk, Russia Profile
Removed from the Chistye Prudy boulevard, the Occupy Abai activists found a new place near the Barrikadnaya metro station

Opposition and Nashi unite over forest

May 14, 2012 Tatyana Kasimova, Russky Reporter
The standoff over the Tsagovsky Forest brings together protestors from across the political spectrum

Police keep detaining protesters

May 7, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia's police officers broke up protest in Moscow as Vladimir Putin inaugurated

Riots shake central Moscow

May 6, 2012 RIA Novosti
Although police cracked down on an anti-Putin rally, the scale of the Moscow riots indicates that the protest movement is still strong

Russia celebrates Labor Day

May 1, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia celebrates a national holiday, the Day of Spring and Labor, on May 1, with trade unions and political parties set to hold rallies across the country

Hunger strike for fair elections ends

April 27, 2012 Alexander Kilyakov
The hunger strike that was carried out by members of the Russian opposition in Astrakhan has been declared a success

Independents’ day dawns at local polls

April 24, 2012 Andrew Roth, Russia Profile
United Russia’s poor showing in certain regions has prompted calls for a party rebranding

The Russian Orthodox Church won't be silent

April 23, 2012 Marina Darmaros
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for Relations between the Church and Society, spoke to RBTH's Marina Darmaros about ecumenism, his attitude towards contemporary art, the punk band Pussy Riot and liberals

Pussy Riot reveals the fault line

April 20, 2012 Konstantin von Eggert
The punk provocateurs put the country’s contradictions in clear relief. But so far, there are only losers

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

Alexander Herzen: A man of the era of awakening

April 11, 2012 Alexandra Guzeva
This year, Russia celebrates the 200th birthday of writer and political thinker Alexander Herzen. Are his dissident views still relevant given the current state of Russian politics?

The historian with a knack for negotiation

April 11, 2012 Alexander Bratersky
At 45, Vladimir Ryzhkov is one of the senior opposition figures. His Achilles Heel is his cautiousness – but that could again open political doors for him

Russian TV journalists pester McFaul

April 4, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul complains that Russian reporters from the state-sponsored NTV channel pursue him relentlessly

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?

Putin 3.0: what can we expect?

April 2, 2012 Leonid Radzikhovsky
What will Putin’s new presidential term – officially the third, but actually the fourth – be like? Will we see Putin 2.0 reloaded or will the regime collapse and the world witness a third Russian revolution in 100 years?

Protests had an impact

April 2, 2012 Viktor Dyatlikovich
Rallies are losing their appeal because protesters feel they are unable to change the political situation. But this doesn’t mean the authorities can be complacent

Can Russian democracy grow up?

March 12, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
The nature of the post-election protests indicate that maybe Russian democracy is moving out of adolescence into adulthood, but like any teenager, it needs wise parents

Protest movement comes to an end?

March 10, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines, Combined report
The recent rally orchestrated by the opposition in central Moscow indicates that the post-election discontent is gradually coming to an end

A space for dialogue?

March 7, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky
Society remains unhappy, but no one is really in the mood to fight. Where to Russia’s protestors go from here?
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