Sergei Udaltsov and The Left Front
Sergei Udaltsov and his organizations, which include The Left Front, rose to prominence with the protests that swept Russia after the 2011/2012 election cycle. Udaltsov’s…
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Danya Spencer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages – Russian & Chinese from Lewis and Clark University. She is currently studying in the year-long Home and Abroad Program with SRAS. This program combines study abroad in Russia, and an intensive professional internship focusing on translation, research, and writing.
The Komsomol(s)
The Komsomol was founded in 1918 as the Russian Young Communist League. Originally, it was an organization independent from, but supportive of, the Communist Party,…
Mikhail Prokhorov: A Real Future
Mikhail Prokhorov was the only applicant out of a dozen to successfully register as an independent presidential candidate for the 2012 Russian presidential elections. Most…
Russian Election Protests: A view from Irkutsk
For several weeks up to the elections for State Duma, flyers and newsletters were handed out throughout Irkutsk by representatives from many different parties, primarily…
Nashi: Russian Youth Movement
Nashi is by far Russia’s best-known political youth movement. Founded in 2005 shortly after the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the group is against “those who…
Declaration Of The Formation Of The All-Russia People’s Front
Vladimir Putin announced the creation of an “All-Russia People’s Front” at a regional congress of the United Russia party in Volgograd on Friday, May 6,…