Moscow-based Western correspondents spent the better part of this year holding out hope that Dmitri Medvedev might remain in the Kremlin for a second term and continue pushing his pseudo-liberal platform.
Russian democracy
In Russia, laughter, even in a paddy wagon, is the best medicine
Putin’s dismantling of Russian democracy was so brazen, and his apparatchiks’ justifications for it so transparently disingenuous, that it was hard not to laugh in disbelief.
It’s not democracy in Russia, but does it matter?
How concerned we are by Russia’s recent flawed election, and therefore what attitude we take towards Russia in the future, will largely depend on what we think democracy is for, writes Charles Richardson.
