Oleg Cherkovets

The presidential campaign is gaining momentum, and videos promoting the candidate from the “power party” are gradually filling up the prime time on both major state Russian TV channels. One of the main propaganda tricks, to which Putin’s canvassers now love to resort, is putting in the limelight...

If members of the Russian ruling tandem (also United Russia leaders) began to speak almost in a Communist Party language on the eve of the election, this means that United Russia’s chances to win are far from ideal. Perhaps never since the 1996 presidential elections have Russian...

This writer clearly noticed in late August that the official Russian media that strictly follow the Moscow leadership’s line began to show a new tonality. But let us recall the beginning. In the spring and summer of last year, just after Viktor Yanukovych had assumed office, Russian...

Moscow – Experts are worried that as a result of the situation in the Middle East the oil prices may exceed 220 dollars a barrel. But will it help Russia? What happens in the planet’s main oil producing region can seriously impact the global economy. Already during the last week of...

As before in the case of the Customs Union, Russia is now undermining the emerging Common Economic Space (CES) of its closest neighbors and partners, by trying to enforce an uneven balance of power. Today’s Russia is actively using the alleged breakthrough in relations with its closest CIS...

For many years endless conversations about modernizing the economy, implementing innovations, using nanotechnologies etc. have been heard in Russia. However, the concept has yet to move beyond mere words, and this can be easily explained. One can hold forums with big names like “Russia is...

One of The Day’s recent issues (No. 51 of September, 28, 2010) carried an article which adduced numerous convincing arguments to the effect that the Russian economy, despite all the “modernization” hype, is getting bogged down deeper and deeper, becoming a raw materials appendage to the world’s...

Can there really be any “postindustrial epoch” in today’s Russia, when the country is being swiftly de-industrialized at a precipitous rate before our very eyes? The occasional “heartfelt” confessions of our topmost leaders, about how we are living thanks to the...

Before the national holiday of our neighbors — Russia Day — we asked our readers and The Day’s experts the question: What kind of Russia do we love? Even though trouble-free periods have been far and few between in the Ukraine–Russia relations, we have been always convinced that only by setting...