Vladimir M. Lysenko was formerly co-chair of the Republican Party of Russia and was elected in December 1993 as a deputy to the State Duma as a member of the Yabloko coalition.
Although the leading authoritarian regimes are today integrated in many ways into the global system, they have not become more like the democracies; instead, they have been devising policies and…
After the December 2011 State Duma elections, the Russian opposition and civil society quickly launched large protest rallies in response to electoral fraud.
