Dmitry Medvedev has won his predictable landslide as the new president of Russia. His victory in the election of 2 March 2008 was never in doubt, given the Kremlin'
It is now a commonplace to call Russia a "managed democracy", a "directed democracy", or worse. Commentators have also begun to write about the techniques by
Another year, another political crisis in Ukraine. After eight months of accumulating political humiliation since he was forced to accept the return of his arch-opponent Viktor Yanukovych as prime minister
