Two presidential elections

As both nations are in the midst of choosing a new president, I took a look at how the American primary process appears from Moscow in an oped in The Boston Globe.

UPDATE (3/2): A recent article in Novye Izvestia about the primaries makes a subtle point. In passing, it reports that Barack Obama won the "Democrats Abroad" vote in Russia by 77 percent, and wryly obvserves: "Curiously, it is unknown why a Russian-language website in [Obama's] support is far more detailed than the sites of Russian presidential candidates."

(At left: It seems Moscow Metro cards this month have been put into GOTV service)