MOSCOW: Russia's politics are not those of the steppe. Russian voters cannot stroll to the left in one election, to the right in the next, unworried about falling over the edge. We live psychologically on one or the other side of a great divide. Now the question is whether or not, in elections to the Duma to be held on December 19th, and in presidential elections due next summer, the country will continue its transition or backtrack across that great divide.
MOSCOW: Russia's politics are not those of the steppe. Russian voters cannot stroll to the left in one election, to the right in the next, unworried about falling over the edge. We live psychologically on one or the other side of a great divide. Now the question is whether or not, in elections to the Duma to be held on December 19th, and in presidential elections due next summer, the country will continue its transition or backtrack across that great divide.