Having long relied on it as a stalwart of the “systemic opposition,” the Kremlin now seems to be treating the Communist Party (KPRF) as if it were a real opposition party, after all. Might this be a self-fulfilling prophecy?
OP-ED
Mark Galeotti: Real politics is being forced on Russia’s Communist Party
Russian Communist party members and supporters walk towards the Mausoleum of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin to hold a flower-laying ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of his birth on Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2020, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
