Alexander Tsipko, the director of the Center for Political Science Programs at the Gorbachev Foundation, ran as a candidate for parliament for the Civic Union.
Post-Soviet Russia's future may well turn on the interplay of state power with the business interests that now form Russia's best hope for advances in political pluralism.
A domestic political crisis began brewing in Georgia long before the current conflict with Russia. Since the Rose Revolution, the country has been troubled by flawed elections, a “superpresidency,” and…