Archive - December 2007

A month by month review of Siberian Light's best posts over the past year.

Is Russia's outgoing President really the world's fourth richest man?

Yabloko and SPS performed so poorly in the recent Duma elections that both are on the verge of extinction. They face a stark choice of merging, or dying.

Garry Kasparov has announced that he will withdraw from the race for the Russian Presidency. Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion, says he was forced into his decision because Other Russia were not able to find a...

After literally years of speculation, it is now clear that Dmitry Medvedev will be Russia’s next President. Medvedev was nominated by United Russia and endorsed by Vladimir Putin – an endorsement so powerful...

Much as everyone expected, Putin’s United Russia party won a massive victory in yesterdays’ Russian elections. As I write, 97.8 % of the votes have been counted, and 64.1% of these went to United Russia...