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Seven parties, one virtually certain outcome

November 23, 2011 Yevgeny Utkin
The only questions remaining in the Dec. 4 Duma elections are the percentage of the vote the United Russia party will win and which parties will pass the 7 percent threshold to enter the parliament

Putin takes driver’s seat as tandem rolls on

October 26, 2011 Alexei Ilyin
The leaders’ proposed role-reversal continues to fuel much speculation

Judging Medvedev on his own terms

September 30, 2011 Dmitry Babich
In his recent interview, Medvedev showed himself to be an average, modern politician. It is unfair to expect him to be superhuman

Will Putin reinvent himself - and the economy?

September 29, 2011 Ian Pryde
Russian financial experts believe Putin will embrace reform, because it is logical, but logic has never been the driving force in Russian politics

Tandem swap signals sweeping reforms

September 28, 2011 Vladimir Babkin
Rather than dooming Russia to a period of stagnation, the recently announced "swap" will only allow the government to start reforms sooner than March

Experts: it was necessary to update the tandem

September 27, 2011 Roman Vorobyov
Experts are definitely finding it difficult to assess the consequences of this decision by the tandem

The Tandem shuffle

September 27, 2011 Alexander Kilyakov, combined reports
Will the swap of positions in the tandem result in a further government shake-up, or stagnation?

There is no race, but Putin is ahead

July 7, 2011 Alexander Zhuravlev, Kommersant
Putin is out front in the race for president he has yet to officially join, while the People’s Freedom Party strategizes from its dark corner