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How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin has quickly become one of the most powerful and feared politicians in the world. But he’s had a long climb to the top — he spent years working in Russian intelligence...

lets make a thread shall we? now, I have to admit, i haven't done a ton of studying on putin, and i have an inherent distrust of politicians in general. and i do have a basic grasp of who the man is, but lets put our collective minds together and drop...

There are many links in this piece, in order to access them the original article by MIKHAIL KHAZIN will have to be read. He attempts to explain the complexities of the Russian government. http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/russian-vs-global-elites...

Tim Callahan interviews Ilya Ponomarev, a leading opposition figure in the Russian State Duma currently living in exile. Their conversation touches on everything from Russia’s relationship with Ukraine to the future of Russia’s leadership post-Putin...