Editorial May 12, 2012

The return of President Putin

After serving as prime minister for four years, Vladimir Putin returned to the Russian presidency Monday to begin his third term, as outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev was appointed prime minister for the second time, thus continuing their governing partnership. Mr. Putin served as president ...

Global-related Mar 14, 2012

World has a stake in Russia's youthful vanguard

by Condoleezza Rice

The election of the once and future president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, tempts one to despair that the brief and inspiring political awakening in Russia over the past year was for naught. He has gotten his way — replacing his protege Dmitry ...

Editorial Mar 7, 2012

Third term for Mr. Putin

He did it again. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won another presidential election. While the outcome was no surprise, neither was the controversy that greeted his victory. Despite Mr. Putin’s claim that he won “an open and honest fight,” the opposition has charged that ...

Commentary Mar 2, 2012

Sure winner fails to inspire

by Andrey Borodaevskiy

Before the scandalous presidential election of 1996, the situation was clear-cut and critical. A victory by Gennady Zyuganov over Boris Yeltsin would have meant an old-style Communists’ revenge for their defeat in the August 1991 putsch as well as a strong drive toward renationalization ...

Global-related Mar 1, 2012

Instinct and appetite will guide Putin's next term

by Mikhail Kasyanov

Few people, least of all Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — who plans to return to Russia’s presidency on March 4 — could have imagined last December that Russians would, for the first time in 20 years, wake up and rally in their tens of ...

Commentary Feb 24, 2012

An alternative to Putin's way

by Andrey Borodaevskiy

A “frosty Saturday” Feb. 4 confirmed the deadlocked nature of the situation that has ripened in Russia for more than a decade of Vladimir Putin’s rule (as president and senior partner in the infamous “tandem”). The elections March 4 unequivocally mean a dozen more ...

Commentary Feb 10, 2012

Russia should back up a bit to find road to the future

by Andrey Borodaevskiy

I am not going to speak about a time machine and America but about Russia and its urgent need to return to the past in search of a tool to secure a better future. It looks like the country — instead of further tolerating ...