Petrov

(CSM) Generally, prestigious private universities with hundreds of students don't get shut down over fairly minor, six-month-old technical issues that have since been resolved. But that is precisely the predicament facing…

(CSM) The legal odyssey of Russia's best-known opposition leader, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, has been mindbogglingly complicated, full of twists and turns. Nevertheless, experts say, it has wound up with a…

(CSM) Less than a year after a baby step forward to protect women from domestic violence, Russia is taking a bigger step backward. That's the view of women's rights advocates after…

(The Telegraph) Few people will expect any electoral upset when Russians go to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday. With personal approval ratings of over 80 percent, a stranglehold on the media,…

(USA Today) The Russian government is allowing more than a dozen opposition candidates to run in Sunday's parliamentary elections to give the appearance of political freedom at a time when other dissenters…

(Bloomberg) The last time Vladimir Putin’s political party won national elections, ballot-stuffing allegations sparked the biggest protests of his rule. Five years on, Putin appears to be so confident in his…