The big story of this year’s Russian Duma election is that United Russia’s share of the vote has dropped below the psychologically critical 50% mark. With 95% of ballots counted, United Russia has 49.67% of...
Archive - December 2011
AndyRussian Elections Today
The 2011 Russian Duma elections are underway today. Results (even preliminary results) are not expected until late this evening and tomorrow. United Russia, the party led by Vladimir Putin, has slipped slightly in the...
This Week in Russia Blogs #2
Time for the second edition of our resurrected roundup of what’s been happening in Russia blogs over the past seven days. To my mind, the most intriguing story of the week has been that of the chaos surrounding...
France begins work on Mistral warships for Russia
France has begun work on building the first of two Mistral class warships for Russia. French naval defence company DCNS confirmed that it had received initial payments from the Russian Government of $1.2 billion, which...