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Putin to return to power with damaged credibility and legitimacy
January 31, 2012Putin’s faltering return In May 2011 we argued for a modest advance in Russian democracy, namely that both Medvedev and Putin should stand as candidates to offer a modicum of choice between, roughly speaking, modernisation versus continuity. For...
Russia's Evolving Leadership: The Appearance of Democracy (part 5)
July 05, 2011The first move is to strengthen the ruling party — United Russia — while allowing more independent political parties. United Russia already has been shifted into having many sub-groups that represent the more conservative factions, liberal...
Russia's Evolving Leadership: Medvedev’s New Pragmatism (part 4)
July 05, 2011When Medvedev entered office, his current reputation for compliance and pragmatism did not exist. Instead, he continued on Russia’s roll forward with one of the boldest moves to date — the Russia-Georgia war. Aside from the war, Medvedev also...
Russia's Evolving Leadership: Putin’s Shifts (part 3)
July 05, 2011Putin, who had no choice but to appeal to the West to help keep the country afloat when he took office in 2000, initially was hailed as a trusted partner by the West. But even while former U.S. President George W. Bush was praising Putin’s soul...
Russia's Evolving Leadership: Perceptions of Putin (part 2)
July 05, 2011Putin’s goal was to fix the country, which meant restoring state control (politically, socially and economically), strengthening the FSB and military and re-establishing Russia’s influence and international reputation — especially in...
Russia's Evolving Leadership (part 1)
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July 05, 2011Russia has entered election season, with parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections in March 2012. Typically, this is not an issue of concern, as most Russian elections have been designed to usher a chosen candidate and political party...
Portrait of a political corpse (VIDEO)
March 25, 2011Translation from Russian from Moldavkie Vedomosti (Authored by Artur Sitov, April 3, 2009) April 5, Moldova held parliamentary elections. One of their results have no one in doubt: the elections will put an end to the career of one of the veterans...
Wikileaks case highlights crisis in journalism
December 01, 2010By Paul Goble What Wikileaks is doing has little in common with journalism or activism, two leading Russian specialists on the intelligence community say, but the case does highlight the increasingly serious crisis in journalism not...
FSB to re-absorb SVR by end of 2010
July 28, 2010by Paul Goble An anonymous source in the Russian special services says that by the end of the year, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, will be folded into the FSB as a main administration, thereby boosting the reach of the FSB almost...
FSB seeks even greater voice in control of Russian border areas
July 26, 2010by Paul Goble In yet another indication that the FSB is regaining ever more of the powers the KGB had in Soviet times, officials at the Russian security service are seeking the inclusion of a provision in a law under preparation that would give them...