... Patriarch Kirill. Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the police should have been even tougher with protesters. But if they had been, it might have ended in another Bloody Sunday, the 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg that paved the way for the Bolshevik Revolution. Some have suggested that demonstrators ought to adopt the nonviolent resistance championed by Mahatma Gandhi, who was able to peacefully force the British to leave India. But while the British might be persuaded by such measures, Gandhi would...

... Russia Deputy Vorobyov himself met with McFaul. We have decided to ask: 'Why?'" Gudkov and Just Russia Deputy Ilya Ponomaryov signed an appeal for the Duma's ethics committee to investigate the meeting, saying McFaul was a "specialist on Orange Revolutions" and "Western intelligence officials were advising Russian deputies" on the eve of a United Russia convention, Interfax reported. United Russia held a convention Saturday and elected Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as party leader...

... will seek to ride out the displeasure. "It's very close to a deadlock. I would not see any bright future for Ukraine's relations with the European Union," said Olga Shumylo-Tapiola, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. The 2004-05 Orange Revolution street protests made Ukraine many friends in the West. So for Ukraine, a lot of the European reaction is unexpected and seems unfair — especially given its huge efforts to overhaul a ramshackle infrastructure quickly and make it fit...

... in the United States dropped dramatically as a result of the exploitation of shale gas reserves, and shale oil could follow its example, said Seth Kleinman, head of Citibank's European energy research. This is likely to result in a "supply side revolution." A $1 increase in the price of Urals crude, the Russian benchmark, adds about $55 billion rubles ($1.8 billion) to the budget, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said last year. Citibank has calculated that, on average, the ruble appreciates...

... brings. Policy will be rejigged and some good things added, but for most existing investors the continuity is as important, as they have learned how to operate in this environment and don't want radical changes — let alone an Arab Spring-style revolution. No one wants that; even the protestors. But it is just as clear that we need change. A couple of appointments have been singled out by the steady-as-she-goes crowd for up-beat comment and optimism. The promotion of former presidential economic...

... hotel in Havana: What happens in Cuba stays in Cuba. The government's pervasive hold on Cuban society was manifest to us during our stay, perhaps best exemplified by the housing stock and commercial buildings confiscated by Castro a few years into his revolution. Almost all of these structures are falling apart in a display of ruination calling to mind a Hollywood apocalypse movie, just like parts of Moscow in the 1980s: without windows; trees growing out of roofs; metal bars splayed over doors. Cuba's...

... brothers died!" During the presidential campaign, Putin's false patriotism was outdone only by the state-owned television stations — particularly NTV — which aired multiple programs accusing the United States of trying to orchestrate an Orange Revolution through purported support of Russia's opposition movement and nongovernmental organizations. In this way, the true patriotism of the majority of Russians has been cheapened and disfigured by the Kremlin and its loyal court journalists and political...

... Communist Party's Central Committee. Times are hard. But its editor says battling hostile authorities, the threat of closure and financial problems is how Pravda spent its early years after first appearing in St. Petersburg on May 5, 1912, until the 1917 Revolution. "In many respects our role and purpose has gone back to what it was before 1917," Boris Komotsky said in his office in Moscow's Ulitsa Pravdy, a huge photograph of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin reading Pravda on the wall behind...

... violence. They were active in previous opposition rallies. After all, it is advantageous for the authorities to portray demonstrators as anarchists or radicals who commit gross violations of law and order in an attempt to lead the country into chaos and revolution. Not surprisingly, that is exactly how the state-controlled media described the events of May 6. The radicalization of the protest movement plays into Putin's hands. It gives him a carte blanche to unleash both the state-controlled media and...

... recent years, according to data released last year by the state Audit Chamber, which tracks migration via tax revenues. Ekho Moskvy radio cited the head of the state body Sergei Stepashin comparing the wave of emigration to that after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. At Aidan Gallery's farewell party, artists stood smoking and gloomily discussing the impending changes at Vinzavod — a Soviet-era wine factory converted into a hip gallery complex. "It is a signal that there is a rollback of democratic...

... Police in boats moved along a canal next to the square fishing out riot helmets that had fallen into the water. Demonstrators also picked up some of the riot gear that had been stripped from officers. "This is the first trophy for the museum of the revolution," said 31-year-old computer programmer Mikhail Zotov, holding up on a pole an OMON helmet he had retrieved from the river. Nearby protesters cheered as Zotov paraded the helmet around. A Moscow Times reporter said most of the police officers...

... of people on both sides received medical aid. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said on Dozhd television that the police had acted properly and should have been even rougher with demonstrators. "This is the first trophy for the museum of the revolution," said Mikhail Zotov, 31, a computer programmer. He held up on a pole an OMON helmet that he had retrieved from the Moscow River along Bolotnaya Ploshchad. Nearby protesters cheered as Zotov paraded the helmet around. Across town at the...