Politics
An arranged marriage 601
We wont even address the fairness of those suspicions of Prokhorov being a spoiler candidate, only a much more significant one than Dmitry Mezentsev. But not the whole electorate of Yavlinsky is ready to vote for Prokhorov, Mironov or Zyuganov. Many of them just wont go vote at all, and a low voter turn-out that increases Putins chances of winning without having a run-off election...
Parrying the public 37
The political reforms that President Dmitry Medvedev has announced and that have now been outlined in two pieces of legislation already presented to the State Duma are the chief reply of the government to the demands of the angrycitizens. By protesting against rigged elections, the people are demanding what in the end people demand from authoritarian regimes: political rights. What did this reply consist of exactly?
Thanks for being alive! 206
A hand-written platform, or Think bout people! 415
This is the election campaign platform of our Tsar, our father, the man who allocates everything to everyone himself. This is the manual operation platform. As Putins Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted, theres a reason why the prime minister put the platform together in writing. Staying in line with this logic, he is going to take care of civil servants and retirees, his backbone of support, with his own two hands...
The Constitution should not have a place for a king 177
Talk online about the Constitution is taking people away from the slogan of fighting for honest elections to the slogan of being against the countrys autocratic government. People are now speaking out not just against United Russia and Putin, but against the constitutionally enshrined institutional system that has made the phenomenon that is Putin possible. So what is being proposed in place of the autocratic government?
"Vote in the new elections after the rigged ones have been thrown out" 1104
5 and 6 December, Moscow 889
The rain came pouring down on the thousands in the crowd at the Solidarity movements protest rally at Chistoprudny Boulevard. I hope that after this protest, the phrase its raining like cats and United Russia will become part of the language. United Russia, no doubt, has gone to the dogs, said critically acclaimed writer and journalist Dmitry Bykov.
The liberals last shot 71
Prokhorov is coming roaring back on his Yo-Mobil into big time Russian politics, and this time he is a presidential candidate. And even if he himself came up with this idea, no one believes in the pure and voluntary nature of his intent. Much more serious hints are being made that Alexei Kudrin, the long-time keeper of liberal economic traditions, will be jumping into politics. And not through the higher levels of power, but from the bottom up...
Holding their heads up high. Novaya observers and special correspondents on assignment: each makes their own way to Bolotnaya Square 38
Putin is a crook! Putin is a crook! the protesters chanted half heartedly. Journalists caught up to Viktor Biryukov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department in Moscow for Interaction with Civil Society, by the base of the Karl Marx monument. Biryukov was busy trying to deflect a flood of criticism from civil society...
Moscows speaking! 22
The ruling party commits suicide 308
These elections need to be jinxed 276
Elections are a way for the public and authorities to communicate, with the essence being quite simple: either the public is satisfied with the quality of services that the authorities provide, or it prefers to switch the managing company...
All the questions you wanted to ask Luzhkov and he could not answer 113
Convinced that the level of corruption in Moscow has exceeded all limits and possibly possessing evidence to that effect, the investigative department of the Russian Ministry of the Interior has declared that, if the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov and his wife Yelena Baturina fail to come to Moscow for interrogation, measures envisaged by the Criminal Procedure Code may be taken against them. In other words, they would be brought to interrogation by force, unless, of course, some urgent business keeps the couple abroad.
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