Vladimir Putin and Central Asia: The Shaping of Russian Foreign Policy (Culture and Society in Western and Central Asia)
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moscow - A Russian police officer, annoyed with poor working conditions and overtime, skipped formal avenues for complaints and went straight to the top, via the internet, posting his grievances for the attention of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dre...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's President Vladimir Putin famously once proclaimed, was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated to stoke ever-combustible Russian nationalism, articulating his country's grievances against a world which no longer gave it the respect it believed due.
Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! "We have beaten Russia 116-112 in boxing!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Russia! "Russia, birthplace of giants. "Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Maria Sharapova, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Kournikova, --- we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all. "Vladimir...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
How do we motivate the American public to action on climate change and our transition to a clean energy economy? Appeal to patriotism, says this piece in the C.S. Monitor : The way to get Americans to take action? Appeal to their patriotism. Historically in times of war, the US government has successfully gotten citizens to join the armed forces, to buy war bonds, and to accept rationing by appealing...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's communist party denounced powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while cautiously praising President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as a man who had brought 'certain hopes' to the country.
Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I'm home again from an absolutely fascinating tour of post-communist Eastern Europe and can start writing about it as soon as I get my interviews transcribed. After leaving Romania, I was supposed to visit Chernobyl and the apocalyptic ghost city of Pripyat outside Kiev, Ukraine, but the trip was cancelled at the last minute. The Chernobyl Administration wasn't letting anyone into the area for reasons...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Ukraine has paid Russia for October gas supplies, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Friday, after her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had warned against late payment. "Today we've paid Russia the next 500 million dollars (336 million euros)," Tymoshenko said during a visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Late last week, Putin said Ukraine appeared to be struggling to...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The decision of U.S. automaker General Motors to scrap plans for selling its European Opel unit will not affect the Russian auto industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "GM's decision not to carry out the deal and to drop plans to sell Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium will clearly not damage our interests," Putin said. Putin said Russia would continue to cooperate with...
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The politics of hydrocarbons in Central Asia has been a regular ballroom lately, with strange partners pairing up and then dancing apart. The dance begins in Denmark, to which country Vladimir Putin has just pledged to increase the flow of gas: We are grateful to the Danish Government for giving permission for the construction of the Nord [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• Opel workers walk out in protest but relief at Vauxhall • Carmaker scraps agreement with Magna and Sberbank The row over General Motors' decision to scrap a European sales deal supported by Russia and Germany escalated today, with Vladimir Putin accusing the car group of "scornful" behaviour. The Russian president said his country had learned a lesson about US corporate behaviour...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Don't miss this one-page article in MoJo . For more than a decade Dr. Igor Panarin, a Russian academic, has been predicting that sometime around 2010 the United States will collapse, splintering into separate states, some of them controlled by foreign powers. Outside of Russia, no one's put much stock in his crackpot and stereotype-based theories—until now, that is. Who are the newest members...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Russia's ailing automaker AvtoVAZ requires an additional 5 billion rubles ($170 million) in investment to make competitive products, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Nick Baumann MotherJones Thu November 5, 2009 For more than a decade Dr. Igor Panarin, a Russian academic, has been predicting that sometime around 2010 the United States will collapse, splintering into separate states, some of them controlled by foreign powers. Outside of Russia, no one's put much stock in his crackpot and stereotype-based theories—until now, that is. Who are the newest members...
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
. The internet, Russia's last source of information free of state control is now under threat. Seizing control of internet freedom could be the next step in the re-imposition of totalitarianism in Russia. Over the past decade, while proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin has held power, there have been two alarming trends. First, the Russian government has taken control of all the traditional mass media organs....
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Subject: txt intl russia lbrty - 'Prime Minister' Vladimir Putin Tuesday told Russia's top directors that Russian movies were not attracting big enough foreign audiences and the domestic film industry had to raise its game. Proving himself capable of talking tough on culture as well as politics, Putin said that despite state support Russian movies were not sufficiently popular abroad and therefore...
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