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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 10, 2012

TODAY: British artists fall foul of extremism law; Russia vows response to Magnitsky sanctions, restricts U.S. meat imports. Megafon buys half of Euroset; Exxon Mobil and Rosneft set for Siberian cooperation; Russia seeks new Internet controls. Graft responsible for major losses from state budget; Mormons; protests. Russian prosecutors have launched a probe into whether the Chapman Brothers’ exhibition [...]

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A Just Russia Adjusts

A Just Russia has played an interesting role in Russia’s shifting political landscape, buffeted by the winds of the protest movement. One of the stalwarts of the ‘managed opposition’, which many believed is designed to tow the Kremlin line, the party has also produced some firebrand oppositionists in recent times, such as Astrakhan’s famed hunger [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 13, 2012

TODAY: Surkov given new religious affairs position; protesters seek to rekindle spirit of opposition movement in Moscow and elsewhere; Madonna should be punished for gay rights gesture, says deputy; Pussy Riot nominated for art prize. Economic growth slows; newspaper offices raided Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, widely considered the architect of Putin’s power vertical, has [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 9, 2012

TODAY: Pussy Riot offer final statements to court; Rogozin attacks anti-censorship Madonna; opposition vows to continue the fight for imprisoned activists. Anniversary of five-day war with Georgia; ex-generals attack Medvedev’s role; gas talks with Armenia; sect uncovered ‘We are freer than those who are prosecuting us [...] We can say everything we want, and they [...]

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