This collection of articles for Russian periodicals written by the Russian historian and political scientist Dmitrii Furman (1943-2011). All together they describe the political process in Russia in the last ten years. D. Furman is also the compiler and editor of the series published by the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Center in Moscow about the new relationships between Russia and the New Independent States: Ukraina i Rossiia: Obshchestva i Gosudarstva; Belorussiia i Rossiia: Obshchestva i Gosudarstva; Chechnia i Rossiia: Obshchestva i Gosudarstva; Azerbaidzhan i Rossiia: Obshchestva i Gosudarstva.