The Kremlin

Russia's new cabinet: Putin's gang

No great personnel changes, but the new government will soon face new challenges(64)

Vladimir Putin: Back in the Kremlin

Vladimir Putin’s return offers Russia his own peculiar form of stability—but it may eventually bring about the opposite(8)

Vladimir Putin's inauguration: Vlad's back

Putin returns to the Russian presidency, as protests in Moscow turn violent(100)

Russia’s opposition: The prisoner of Astrakhan

Protesters against Vladimir Putin’s rule look with new hope to Russia’s regions(10)

Russia: Politics begins at home

A new political landscape is emerging: local, energetic and mistrustful(39)

Russia’s presidential election: Moscow doesn’t believe in tears

Vladimir Putin returns to preside over a country whose people have grown increasingly mistrustful of him(50)

Russia's presidential election: It brings a tear to the eye

Vladimir Putin returns to run a country that is increasingly mistrustful of him(512)

Putin’s Russia: Call back yesterday

Twelve years after his first election, Vladimir Putin is becoming president of Russia again. The country is a lot harder to control now(236)

Russia’s protests: Just making our feelings known

Large street protests are transforming Russia’s political landscape—with unpredictable consequences(11)

Protest in Russia: The anti-Putin promenade

Protests in Moscow before the presidential election(52)

A choice of models: Theme and variations

State capitalism is not all the same(21)

Russia’s protests: First we take Sakharov Avenue

The capital sees its biggest demonstration yet against the Kremlin(49)

Russia: The long life of Homo sovieticus

This week’s elections and upheavals in Russia show how hard it is, 20 years after the system collapsed, for the country to put away its Soviet past(132)

Political crisis in Russia: Voting, Russian-style

Routine election fraud turns into full-scale protest. The regime is worried(36)

Travels in the north Caucasus: The land that Russia would like to forget

Russia’s presidency: Guess who!

The news that Vladimir Putin will return to the Kremlin ends a four-year charade. The real question is how he can stay in power(230)

Russia's presidency: The return of the man who never left

Vladimir Putin will return to the Kremlin in 2012(522)

Elections in Russia: Welcome to the circus

In place of genuine politics, the election season will be full of Kremlin-sanctioned buffoons, clowns and imps(68)

Russian politics: A rich man's game

Why is Russia’s third-wealthiest man entering politics?(50)

Russia's presidency: The Putin v Medvedev tandem

New signs of tension at the top as Russia’s 2012 presidential election looms(64)