Accidental Allies in Russian Politics
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MOSCOW -- They are an odd trio: a chess grandmaster, a flamboyantly controversial radical and a suave former insider. Together they have embarked on a political quest that seems not merely quixotic but hopelessly so: regime change in Russia.
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Some of the international challenges facing Russia's next leader:
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The BBC's James Rodgers watches Russia's Communist Party relive past glories - and asks what new it can offer.
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When Vladimir Putin used illegal tactics to engineer the election of his hand-picked subordinate Ahmad Kadyrov as president of Chechnya last October, Western pundits were quick to condemn the election as a farce.
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A breakdown of which former Soviet republics enjoy generally warm official ties with Russia and which have a chillier relationship:
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The current political events in Ukraine highlight not only the ineptitude of previous geopolitical decisions in the region, going back to World War I, and indeed even prior to that, but also the importance of ...
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For Russian opposition campaigner and  former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, even something as  simple as holding a meeting can be an obstacle course.
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James Rodgers explores Russia's relationship with its stormy history and larger-than-life leaders.
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The Russian government&#39;s fascination with appearances has a long history. Be it Potemkin villages, political show trials, or rigged privatizations, government fixers have always had a flair for deception.
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If Russian businesses are helping fund the election campaign of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s favored candidate in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election at the Kremlin&#39;s behest, as some political analysts suspect, those businesses may be better off betting on the
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Germans are gaga over Barack Obama. He's got Japan pretty jazzed, too, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Russia's leaders, not so much: They prefer a Republican Â as long as it's not Kremlin critic John McCain.
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Compared to a decade or so ago, the belief in the messianic power of democracy and markets has reached a new low. Why another face-off between Washington and Moscow isnât as impossible as you might think.
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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.
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Boris Kuznetsov made his name defending people who fell foul of the Russian state.
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He was cast by critics as the Russian-backed bad guy during Ukraine's Orange Revolution two years ago, the burly politician who almost stole the presidential election from the pro-Western leader Viktor ...Comment
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Experts charge that the Kremlin-backed United Russia party is transforming into a monolithic state force.
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A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial.