Amendments to Russia’s new media law limiting foreign ownership to 20% show there is no free market in the country.
Having been accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars, Gulnara Karimova is now under house arrest in Tashkent; one more indication of the schism that is splitting the ruling family.
In 2012, President Putin promised to increase the healthcare budget. Two years later, the Russian government is cutting back. But not on the defence budget… на русском языке
Public protests are mounting in Armenia over economic and political issues. But where is the Armenian opposition in all this?
Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration.
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow, a place where you must live in the moment, because the moment is all you have.
Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.
On paper, Russia’s new laws on data storage seem to make business impossible for big internet companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a wider range of online businesses.
Ukraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right – not that the Russian government or media will care.
Sanctions have had a limited effect on the Russian population whose support towards the government’s Ukrainian policy does not seem to be eroding.
A recent clash with the police is a sign of the alienation felt by some young men from Moscow’s Muslim community. на русском языке
Putin has successfully managed to persuade his fellow citizens that he and Russia are one and the same. на русском языке
