Category election

I don’t know if I’m alone in feeling there’s no future. Nothing bright to expect from this country; only fog, rain and snow ahead. It’s not that Russia has not gone through bad times before, but isn’t much of a…

The Communist Party has been counting votes independently, with the help of the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces. Their results differ a little from the government’s, suprisingly showing the liberal parties above the 5% minimum. If the government…

Half of the Russian Duma is elected through a proportional vote (party lists), the other through a traditional first-past-the-post system. The way things stand now in the proportional elections, United Russia, Putin’s party, got 37% of the vote. The Communists…