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.
Russia's liberal-democratic parties have failed. It is time for a new movement that can gain the trust of the Russian people by putting forward a full reform program based on…
Read the full essay here. In contrast to authoritarian power structures, which rest on a form of bureaucratic corporatism that makes the leader its hostage, the regime in Moscow rests…