Kremlinology 2012

After a week of soul-searching and post-mortems of "the revolution," the final anti-Putin rally felt like the closing chord of a long and ebullient improvisation.

Putin cracks down on Moscow's protesters before the victory tears are dry on his face.

A dispatch from Vladimir Putin's election day.

Once again, it all comes down to Putin versus himself.

It might be just coincidence that Moscow is messing with opposition media as a shaky Putin looks toward the elections, but it’s beginning to look a lot like a nasty pattern.

With 100,000 protesters -- young, old, and everything in between -- out in the freezing streets of Moscow, the heat is being turned up on Vladimir Putin's drive for the presidency.

Alexey Navalny on why the Russian protest movement will win.

With unprecedented protests in Moscow this weekend, Russia's growing opposition movement is making it clear they won't stand for Putin's march to power.

Russia’s embattled ruler meets his public.

But what's next for Russia's newly emboldened protest movement?

No one's quite sure what's going on in the streets of Moscow -- or what to call it -- but it's growing and powerful ... and could all end badly.

In advance of Sunday's parliamentary ballot, the pro-Putin camp is cracking down hard on independent election monitors.