Moscow city officials today rejected a plan by opposition groups to hold a demonstration of up to 50,000 protesters on February 4.
The decision came as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rejected calls for dialogue with his critics, and analysts speculated whether …
Be careful what you wish for.
Those who expect the end of US global hegemony to be the precursor to a new, benign, globally cooperative world order will likely be disappointed, writes Zbigniew Brzezinski.
“More probable would be a …
The world became slightly more authoritarian over the past year, according to the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual survey. For the sixth consecutive year, more countries experienced more democratic backsliding than improvement, writes Arch Puddington, the group’s research director.…
Russian state television has launched a fierce political offensive against new U.S. Ambassador Mike McFaul. The attack coincides with a prominent oligarch’s warning that Russia faces violent revolution if it fails to embrace democracy and with fresh attempts by …
Kazakh opposition leaders burned copies of election results today, as around 100 voters held a peaceful protest in Almaty, the country’s largest city, to dispute the results of a weekend poll. While the authorities claimed the snap election was …
Russia’s revived and robust opposition plans to rally near the Kremlin next month, maintaining the momentum of protests against the electoral fraud and endemic corruption characteristic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s “soft authoritarianism.”
The news came as the new US …
Does the experience of post-Soviet transitions bear lessons for the Arab Spring? A leading human rights activist considers how “to make change stick” after the revolution.
“Twenty years ago, in July 1991, I was poised to start a job …
The fabrications of Russia’s sovereign democracy are undermining the Kremlin’s response to the newly-energized opposition, as fresh evidence emerges of the ruling party’s electoral fraud.
Some 46% of respondents to a December survey by the Levada Center polling group said …
Russia “needs democracy,” President Dmitry Medvedev said today, using his final state of the nation speech to promise reforms that would “give all active citizens a legitimate possibility to take part in political life.”
But analysts and activists dismissed …
Russian opposition leaders today decried a Soviet-style smear campaign after a pro-Kremlin website released recordings of private phone calls in which activists discussed plans for this week’s mass protest rally in Moscow, AFP reports:
Sensationalist website Life News late …