Constitutions didn’t save USSR and won’t by themselves save Russia, Vanin says
Facing a situation in which there is growing popular discontent and increasing dysfunction in institutions, Vladimir Putin has…
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Russian-occupied Crimea: Lessons of hypocrisy
As it was informed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has…
Putin restoring Brezhnev constitution that led to perestroika, Shtepa says
But in restoring what is very much a Leonid Brezhnev-style constitution, the Russian regionalist says, the Kremlin leader…
With his changes to Russian Constitution, Putin has suffered a serious defeat, Gozman says
The great Russian novelist Victor Serge wrote a series of novels highlighting “the victory in defeat” and “the…
Putin’s proposed amendments to Russian Constitution reject primacy of international law
The most important change in the Russian Constitution that Vladimir Putin has called for has almost been lost…
What’s Putin up to and who’s the next PM of Russia? Experts comment on resignation of Russian government
What happened: On January 15, 2020, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly and proposed…
Portnikov: Putin declared war on Ukraine
In today’s message to the Federal Assembly of Russia, President Vladimir Putin proposed a large-scale constitutional reform, which…
Russia’s constitution must declare ethnic Russians country’s only ‘state-forming people,’ Korovin says
Valery Korovin, a member of the Izborsky Club, has asked Russia’s Civic Chamber of which he is also…
Sakha Constitutional Court in Russia rules ‘all the territory of Yakutia is the historical motherland of the Yakut people’
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that…
What the real Putin Constitution looks like
A constitution is not just words on paper but a living and breathing document that is given meaning…