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.

“Seeing as how my image is everywhere on television, my appearance in the ring caused people to get somewhat disgruntled. That’s completely possible and absolutely fine.” Vladimir Putin Everything is just fine and dandy with...

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...

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.

All the political powers are exploiting nationalism, and the Communists have come along for the ride. They are the latest to have their say on whether to indicate nationality in Russian passports. This autumn and winter, kokoshniks and kosovorotniks along with xenophobia toward the Caucasus and anti-Semitism are all in style. The elections are upon us, and each political power has its own “Russian march"...