The candidate lists of the major parties reveal that although women are more visible than in 1993, they still do not play a major role in Russia’s electoral politics; that extreme-nationalist parties are fielding the greatest number of military candidates; and that business people are eager to run for political office. Yet despite the varied field of candidates, the composition […]

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