The big pension freeze
Posted on September 5, 2016
The moratorium on the freezing of the cumulative part of …
The “Tractor March on Moscow”
Posted on September 2, 2016
The so-called “Tractor March on Moscow” recently staged by Kuban …
The campaign trail
Posted on September 2, 2016
State Duma candidate Vladislav Khodakovskiy talks about the campaign trail. …
Free and fair elections … so they said
Posted on September 2, 2016
For those people who have experience of these “free and …
Putin’s take on Russian history
Posted on September 1, 2016
Starting on 1 September, Russian schoolchildren will be learning history …
Patriotic education
Posted on August 31, 2016
On 19 August, Russia appointed a new Minister of Education …
$100,000 for every Russian and a share of oil revenues
Posted on August 30, 2016
Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Olga Zhakova, State Duma candidate for Irkutsk …
No substitute for success
Posted on August 30, 2016
The Kremlin says that import substitution is rebooting the economy, …
“We didn’t elect those slimeballs, we elected other slimeballs.”
Posted on August 29, 2016
Having witnessed the rigging of the last Duma election at …
New wine in old bottles
Posted on August 26, 2016
In a recent interview with the FT, Lamberto Frescobaldi revealed …