Keeping Russia's Deadly Politics at Home
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Viewpoint: The murder of Alexender Litvinenko demonstrates, once again, how murder has become an accepted part of Russian power struggles. But the West can't &#8212; or won't &#8212;  do much about it
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Is Russia sliding back into czar-like autocracy, after a brief liberation from Soviet dictatorship? The leaders who ushered in democracy fear so, as President Vladimir Putin pushes to centralize yet more power in his own busy hands.
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As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago.
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President Vladimir Putin's plans to shake up Russia's political scene sailed through the State Duma lower house of parliament on Friday, with deputies giving short shrift to U.S. concerns about a roll-back of democracy.
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Both are candidates from the party of power and have presidential aspirations. Both served as prime ministers and campaigned on a platform of strengthening ties with Russia.
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Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.
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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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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.
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ELEANOR HALL: To Russia now, where President Vladimir Putin&#39;s announcement this week of a radical overhaul of Russia&#39;s political system has sparked concern about the future of democracy in the country.
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Analysis: Moscow wants to rein in its pro-NATO neighbor, and a spy scandal may have provided an opening
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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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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells the US that Russia's internal politics are its own business.
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MOSCOW -- As Russia&#39;s summer of terror reached a bloody climax Friday, it might be easy to forget that a long and agonizing conflict is behind the headline-grabbing horrors that have included exploding airliners, suicide bombs in crowded subway stations
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As the people of Beslan bury their dead, it is worth asking how Russia as a democracy has coped with the most lethal terrorist incident since September 11, 2001.
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MOSCOW - The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept...
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The BBC's James Rodgers watches Russia's Communist Party relive past glories - and asks what new it can offer.