During a debate held on Yuri Pronko’s programme Sukhoi Ostatok (Final Analysis) on finam.fm radio station, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, Yevgeny Fedorov, appeared troubled by some mysterious...

The 150th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia is a big red-letter day for the liberal community and for historians. The nation’s leaders, however, neatly sidestepped the topic. What does an episode from the school textbook...

One of Russia’s political culture rules of thumb is that ranking officials must travel as far as possible from the ancient Kremlin walls in order to be able to share their innermost thoughts, to places like Davos, or the Krasnoyarsk forum,...