Putin Didn’t Suffer a Resounding Defeat
Although support for United Russia fell, Vladimir Putin is still the dominant figure in Russian politics.
Vladimir Putin
Medvedev Urges Russians to “Vote for the Future”
The Russian president called on voters to elect a stable majority for the ruling party.
Medvedev, Putin to Switch Places Next Year
Vladimir Putin will return to the presidency in 2012 after serving as Russia’s number two for a single term.
The Kremlin Two-Step
“Westerners often see Russian politics in terms of a high-level struggle between liberals and conservatives,” observes Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, writing for The Moscow Times. For instance, under President Boris Yeltsin, reformers fought nationalists while under Vladimir Putin, economic liberals opposed the siloviki — a class of politicians that originally served […]