Елена Рыковцева

On March 1, 1953, Radio Liberation was born (later – Radio Liberty)

Юлия Латынина

When I look at societies that are confused, benighted and dysfunctional – like Arab society and, alas, the Russian one – I am saddened to observe a phenomenon I would describe as “pointless discussions.” A pointless discussion takes place when an influential group that seeks to preserve its weight imposes on society a patently idiotic discussion. Everybody begins to discuss: “Is the Earth round or flat? Let’s have a discussion.” “Is it proper to go to the American Embassy? Let’s argue about it.”

Андрей Колесников

This is history taking revenge for Boris Yeltsin having picked Putin as his successor. I am confident that Zyuganov didn’t even think of making a come back this way, riding the momentum of a boomerang emblazoned in national patterns and decorated with Stalin’s enormous portrait. Twelve years under Putin has brought the voter to this point. But it’s not as if Putin came to us from a well. He came from Russian history...

Юлия Латынина

Within a month and a half since the Bolotnaya Square protest, Vladimir Putin has made, as I see it, one devastating, but inevitable, mistake: he opened his mouth.

Юлия Латынина

They barred any party from the elections that had at least some right to call itself an opposition party, got rid of the “Against all” option on the ballot, and made the very meaning of the word “elections” meaningless. Even...

Андрей Колесников

THEY were waiting all these years for an “orange” revolution on Revolution, Manezhnaya or Old Square. That revolution, however, took place in people’s conscience.

Михаил Горбачев

The results of these elections should be annulled and new elections should be held. The Russian leadership should take the initiative to do so.

Юлия Латынина

We, the Russian third class, the virtual party of Alexei Navalny, showed the ruling kleptocracy that if they want to save Russia from revolution, it needs to dump Putin. We were able to make Putin’s life-long dictatorship a thing of the past. Exchanging it for the lifetime dictatorship, or even two-month dictatorship, of comrade Limonov, wasn’t exactly part of my plans...

Дмитрий Орешкин

There is a legal way for influencing the authorities, and it needs to be taken advantage of. Seeing as how the authorities are spending so much effort to disgrace and intimidate election observers and journalists, that means they are worried about this tool. The authorities are scared, and they are doing acting accordingly...

Елена Милашина

Blogging idol Alexei Navalny has joined the organising committee of Russian March, a nationalist demonstration. He also supported the March’s campaign and called on all his fans to take part in it. Among other things Navalny put up a campaign video on his blog, viewed by thousands daily, taken from the Russian March’s website with the chant “stop feeding the Caucasus”

Юрий Рост

The debt will be paid. By all...

Павел Фельгенгауэр

Vladimir Putin has obviously concocted the army and navy's all-out rearmament for his third/fourth term as president. Even legendary Soviet battle equipment will no longer come in handy...

Павел Фельгенгауэр

Vladimir Putin has obviously concocted the army and navy's all-out rearmament for his third/fourth term as president. Even legendary Soviet battle equipment will no longer come in handy

Захар Прилепин

My first question: there’s this guy named Gennady Timchenko, who just so happens to be a good friend of Mr Putin’s. Timchenko trades Russian oil through an offshore company, and not too long ago became a Finnish citizen. Is there nothing fishy about this?..

Кирилл Рогов

Putin's plan turned out to be more clever and sophisticated than I had presupposed in terms of the person it used as the “locum tenens”. Putin gave him the features of a young, forward-thinking man who came out for modernisation, infatuating all of Putin’s elitist naysayers at the same time. Now that’s what I call witty trickery!