Levada Center News
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The Levada Center, a Russian independent pollster, may be forced to close after prosecutors said it may be violating President Vladimir Putin’s law on foreign agents, said Lev Gudkov, head of the researcher.
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Skinheads armed with smoke bombs taunted gays in central St. Petersburg in the first sanctioned gay rally in Russia’s second-largest city since it banned so- called homosexual propaganda last March.
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Thousands of Russian opposition activists rallied in downtown Moscow on the anniversary of a protest that turned violent last year, calling on authorities to release people held for allegedly organizing that event.
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The involvement of two ethnic Chechens in the Boston Marathon bombing came as a brutal reminder of the wars that ravaged the Russian republic more than a decade ago. Less understood is that they aren’t over.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating fell this month to the lowest level since 2000, according to a poll by the independent Levada Center.
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Alexey Navalny, a leader of the opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, goes on trial today for embezzlement, focusing investors’ attention on the rule of law as the dropping value of oil undercuts stock prices.
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Elvira Nabiullina is declining to follow in the footsteps of Mark Carney and Haruhiko Kuroda and become an agent of change at Russia’s central bank.
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who faces three criminal cases, pledged to compete for the presidency and threatened to “do everything” to imprison Vladimir Putin and his billionaire allies if he seizes power.
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Vladimir Putin, who won another six years at the Kremlin amid allegations of fraud, faces rising discontent among the country’s urban middle class that owes its success to prosperity under his rule.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev begins his third year in office today still seeking to tame a bureaucracy that has resisted his initiatives and shake an image of powerlessness.
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