New Political Party Seeks Big Changes

Four liberal opposition politicians asked the Justice Ministry on Monday to register a new political party that would seek to revert the presidential term to four years, free jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and, perhaps unsurprisingly, ease the rules for registering parties. Keeping in mind that the ministry has only registered two parties in eight years, the leaders of the Party of People’s Freedom even notified the Organization for Security and Cooperation […]