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...

For some reason, Vladimir Putin’s electoral rating published by the Levada Centre (37%) is thought to be catastrophically low. And yet it is the highest mark since at least July 2011, when a mere 23% of respondents said they would vote for Putin...

We won’t 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 won’t go vote at all, and a low voter turn-out that increases Putin’s chances of winning without having a run-off election...

Medvedev invites “active people” to his “open” office, while civil society replies that it’s too late for that. It’s you that should come meet us...

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 Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted, there’s 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...

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.