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Robert Coalson (RFE/RL) has just published a superb summary of some of the brazen election abuses during last December's Duma elections in Russia. It would be funny if it were not so sad. 

This hilarious YouTube satire video by the Perm KVN group gives a bit of background on the recent Russian election, and how Medevedev was recruited for his role. The dubbing is superbly done. (All in Russian)...

In the 2002 film Oligarch, by Russian director Pavel Lungin, the main character predicts his own downfall, saying, "Russia is a bear. You think you are playing with it and it devours you."

In April 1783, Russia annexed the Crimea. We look back at the Khan who enabled enabled it, and his ignominious fate.

In honor of the rise to power of the bear president (Medvedev), Mikhail Ivanov looks at bearisms in the Russian language.

With great pomp and circumstance, it was announced in January that the Russian military would be getting new dress uniforms, designed by Valentin Yudashkin. We asked a noted military observer to comment.