The results were modest," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of the climate summit in Copenhagen. And that was putting it kindly. Whatever one's reading of the past two weeks' wrangling, it is hard to qualify them as success. For the

The funeral of the economic politician, social activist and public intellectual Yegor Timurovich Gaidar has been postponed. It gave us more time to say goodbye to a man who has largely shaped the world as we know it. I will

The liberal Yabloko party made a decision at their convention over the weekend to ban party members from participating in other political organizations, including the Other Russia, Solidarity, the United Civil Front, and numerous others.