Reading Russia

Arkady Ostrovsky in The Economist suggests Russia is both a recovering superpower and a corrupt oligarchy - with a market economy, of sorts. 

BBC Monitoring reports on the  Russian media industry under pressure as economic downturn starts to bite at the start of the economic downturn.

The Reuters Institute at Oxford University has recently published a study of the internet in Russia and specifically the role it played - and didn't play- during the recent election.