There are two reasons for thinking that the new State Duma (Russian parliament) will be the last, Igor Yakovenko says. On the one hand, it or more precisely elections to it mean that what has become “a fifth wheel” in the...
Both the Kremlin and the Russian people are afraid of a Maidan, but they needn’t be because for a Maidan to take place in Russia there would have to be something that does not now exist, a genuine opposition in the Duma ready and...
A group of Russian State Duma deputies, working together with experts from the Interior Ministry and the Russian Guard, are preparing a draft bill that would allow Russians to use with impunity any amount of force they deemed...
Today, the Russian Duma passed in second and third reading the so-called “Yarovaya-Ozerov Law on Terrorism,” a draconian measure that means not only that Vladimir Putin’s recent call for improved relations with...
The Russian parliament needs to reinstate Vladimir Putin’s right to send troops to Ukraine if the US begins to supply weapons, said Mikhail Emelyanov, the first deputy head of the “Just Russia” faction in the Russian...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
