Former Soviet president says Kremlin must send people to the polls again or face long-term unrest over alleged voting fraud

Russian authorities should annul the parliamentary vote results and hold a new election, the ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has urged, as popular indignation grows over alleged election fraud.

Thousands of Russians have...

Moscow riot police arrest opposition leaders Alexey Navalny and Ilya Yashin as crowds opposed to Vladimir Putin take to streets

Anger over a Russian election marred by widespread violations and the shadow of Vladimir Putin's likely return to the presidency broke into violence late on Monday, as thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow in...

This new protest wave is not limited to opposition parties - it has drawn in young people previously uninterested in politics

Russia's election day started badly. Early in the morning, three hours before the polls opened, the website of my newspaper went down after it was subjected to a distributed denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers.

An...

Party formed by Vladimir Putin sees support drop by 15% in result seen as test of prime minister's personal popularity

Vladimir Putin was uncharacteristically fidgety as he spoke to supporters at the United Russia headquarters, as polls showed that voters had delivered a harsh blow to his party in parliamentary elections that were widely seen as a...

His party, United Russia, has suffered heavy losses at the polls. The Russian PM has a couple of options now, but they're risky

In one part of Russia, Vladimir Putin got the vote he wanted. In Chechnya, which is under the thumb of a satrap who knows which side his black bread is buttered on, Putin's United Russia got 99.47% of the vote. But it was...