If we want to get an answer to a question whether Dmitry Medvedev is a liberal and if yes what it could mean, we need to look at the Russian political history of the recent decade. Doing this, we find that this history can be described as...

The questions of seats arrangement in the new cabinet of Vladimir Putin or distribution of powers between Prime Minister’s apparatus and President’s Administration, and even the question of which posts Dmitry Medvedev will be able to fill...

The newly elect Dmitry Medvedev has said a whale of the good and right things about public administration and developing our economy. If all those words were turned into sheets of paper it would be possible to cover the corridors of the...

Everyone considers it that the situation about corruption in Russia has been aggravating in recent years. Such is the opinion by citizens revealed by polls, such is the opinion by domestic (Indem fund) and international (Transparency...

Not long ago I gave a lecture to journalists from province. I was reasoning whether it is possible to be a free journalist in the country that is not free. A young girl raised her hand and apologized as she was going to ask me a question...

Russian elite, having descended from European snowy resorts, is back to Moscow where they got involved immediately in the atmosphere of small triumphant war against the West. The war is doomed to be victorious as it is waged on our...