In Russia, Dissent Has the Power of Youth
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Mikhail Obozov was in grade school when thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow and helped bring down the Soviet Union.
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A form of dogfighting has thrived in Russia, cementing local legitimacy and gaining new followers.
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Russia's fragmented opposition marshalled its thin ranks against President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, but a modest turnout at a Moscow rally -- dwarfed by the police presence -- only underscored his grip on power.
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Before the tragedy of Beslan, Vladimir Putin lived in a vibrant young democracy. Voters gave a Kremlin-backed party an overwhelming mandate in parliamentary elections in December, and
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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MOSCOW -- The powerful, pro-Kremlin United Russia party has a new opponent, but it bears the marks of a Kremlin creation.
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Elections, at home and abroad, are topping Russia s political agenda lately. While President Vladimir Putin is phasing out elections for governor and redesigning elections to parliament, Russia s political ...
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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Free and open debate has become a rarity in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or business moguls.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- In Russia's lower house of parliament, almost completely dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, Oksana Dmitrieva was part of a very small club of independent deputies, all facing political oblivion come December's parliamentary elections.
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STAVROPOL, RUSSIA -- Once they were the outriders of the Russian empire, feared and fearless warriors who extended the Czar&#39;s authority as far as their horses would carry them.
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Russia is poised for a general election campaign highly influenced by President Putin's popularity, Steven Eke writes.
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MOSCOW -- After ignoring the Internet for years to focus on controlling traditional media such as television and newspapers, the Kremlin and its allies are turning their attention to cyberspace, which remains a haven for critical reporting and vibrant discussion in Russia's dwindling public sphere.
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Young people -- easily mobilized through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and radical force in Hungary's near-tribal political conflict, now increasingly being fought out on the streets.
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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: In Russia, as elsewhere, a lack of transparency feeds a gangster culture that hamstrings social and economic progress
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Critics say Putin's regime stifles dissent in the press.