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Russian Parties Merge Ahead of Highly Anticipated State Duma Race Jan. 28, 2021 The leaders of the A Just Russia, For Truth and Patriots of Russia parties signed a unification manifesto Thursday. Sergei Vedyashkin / Moskva News Agency Three Russian political parties have merged into a single party ahead of this year’s State Duma elections in September, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. The leaders of the A Just Russia, For Truth and Patriots of Russia parties signed a unification manifesto to form th...

The Kremlin Faces a Difficult 2021 The opposition has become more diverse and noticeably stronger. kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin has exhausted his political agenda. Even his recent referendum to “reset” the political clock hasn’t helped. Putin might physically remain in power for some time, but he has already become a “lame duck” president in the eyes of many people, a leader on his way out the door. Nobody — not even loyalists — has any hope that the country will improve while Putin remains in office.  The only real questions now are, When will all ...

Camp Russia: On Zakhar Prilepin’s “The Monastery” Zakhar Prilepin THE LAST TIME ONE of Zakhar Prilepin’s novels was translated into English, the 2014 Winter Olympics had just wrapped up in Sochi, and Putin was pretending to look the other way while his insignia-free soldiers marched into Ukraine. That April, Prilepin’s fast-paced, anti-government protest novel Sankya was published with a foreword by Alexei Navalny, himself no fan of the Russian state. In it, Navalny feted this young, relevant writer, and explained that Prilepin’s novel could tell the reader more about Russia than...