12 Million Extra Votes for Putin’s Party
An analysis of the astonishing scale of the alleged fraud in Russia’s recent elections
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Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters Syria Withdrawal: The View From Russia
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Reuters How a Famous Soviet Dissident Foreshadowed Putin's Plan—in 1990
If the Kremlin is taking its cues from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Eastern Ukraine is only a first step to "rebuilding Russia."
Yuri Kochetkov/Reuters Moldova's Separatist Conundrum
Transdniestria, a pro-Russian breakaway province, is keeping Moldovans out of the European Union. Sound familiar?
Gleb Garanich/Reuters I Watched Russian State Television for a Whole Day
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YouTube The Chocolate King Who Could Be Ukraine's Next President
Can the shadowy Petro Poroshenko pull off an upset win against Yulia Tymoshenko?
Gleb Garanich/Reuters The Crimean Crisis We Should Have Seen Coming
Barack Obama and Ukraine's new government have warned Russia not to intervene militarily in Crimea—a region long plagued by tensions.
Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili A Surprisingly Candid Chat Between Nixon and Brezhnev
Despite Cold War tensions, newly released tapes show the two found plenty of room for jokes in a 1973 meeting.
Wikimedia Commons Is Aleksei Navalny a Liberal or a Nationalist?
While his positions are broadly endorsed by Russia's opposition, some have voiced alarm about past ethnically charged statements.
In Russia, a 'Generalized Climate of Fear'
A rash of new laws have made things even tougher for the country's dissidents.
