The starting gun for the Russian election season has been fired and already people are trying to predict the outcome. Who will be victorious in the power game between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and where do they differ on policy. GIS expert Dr Sergei Guriev examines the issues in this special report from Russia.
AS RUSSIA enters the election season everyone is trying to predict the outcome.
Russia is a ‘managed’ democracy with a tightly controlled electoral process and where electoral outcomes are heavily influenced by government preferences.
But even now, with th...
