by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin looked to be awarding himself around 74 percent of the vote in his spectacularly fraudulent election today, a big increase on his relatively modest 63 percent in 2012. With about 40 percent of the votes counted, the triumphant president briefly appeared on stage […]
by Sarah Hurst Russia’s military might is its crowning achievement, Vladimir Putin made clear today in his annual speech to the Federal Assembly, as he showed a series of videos of nuclear weapons and prototype weapons that he claimed have no parallel anywhere else in the world. The […]
by Sarah Hurst A judge in Tyumen has sentenced a volunteer at Alexei Navalny’s local campaign headquarters, Petr Kharitonov, to seven days in prison for speaking at the protest against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election on January 28. He was charged with “minor hooliganism”. Kharitonov held a sign at […]
by Sarah Hurst “A strong president – a strong Russia” is Vladimir Putin’s election slogan, now gracing his new campaign website and billboards all over the country. Remarkably, with very little effort Putin has reportedly already collected 500,000 signatures in his own support, and will continue to collect […]
by Sarah Hurst Ksenia Sobchak, the liberal TV presenter running for president who has been criticised for playing into the hands of the Kremlin, is being threatened with prosecution over her comments on Crimea. Sobchak posted a letter on Instagram from the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office to Ruslan Ostashko, […]
Navalny vs. Putin 