We’ve been here before. Let’s hope it doesn’t lead where it often does.

The Russian dissident punk rockers open up to GQ about their lives in prison

Fear inspired the EU’s creation – will fear save it?

In the 1990s Tatarstan carved out a special role within the Russian Federation. In the 2000s much of that progress was rolled back by a resurgent Moscow, starting with an assault on the Latin alphabet.

How do rural working class Russians really feel about Vladimir Putin?

The feminist rockers have put Putin’s Kremlin firmly under the international microscope

As their ‘hooliganism’ trial ends, Russia’s newly famous feminist rockers stand firm

Judging by his first 60 days in office, the Russian president could be turning into his own worst enemy

“I can understand the politicians who sympathize with Yulia Tymoshenko, but nothing stands in their way to express this sympathy in a clear way during the championships.”

Vladimir Putin won a third presidential term by appealing to the working class, the people who’ve benefited least from his rule. Can he hold their support?

A recent television discussion reveals the country’s highly theoretical relationship to truly representative government.

Russians are not unhappy people but neither could you say that they have a lot of fun. Russians do not want to live in Russia.

Wearing high heels on police raids is among the accomplishments noted on International Women’s Day

A Russian journalist offers a chilling portrait of the KGB officer turned pol

Russia’s presidential election was so predictable, and so disputed, that it’s not the results that are the main topic of conversation.

Prilepin is also engaged in opposition politics. He belongs to the “radical left opposition party coalition” Other Russia.

What does a new documentary about Nashi tell us about the next generation of Russian politicians and activists?

And what will it look like when it does?

Looking back on the former Soviet Union’s bumpy road since 1991 offers cause for concern in the Arab world today, but also for optimism