russia politics

May 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 20, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev’s star wanes after press conference; Nashi victim of hacker Charlie Sheen prank; rare military whistleblower speaks out; gay rights rally deemed disturbing to children.  Shoot out in South Ossetia;  Israeli espionag...
May 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 20, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev’s star wanes after press conference; Nashi victim of hacker Charlie Sheen prank; rare military whistleblower speaks out; gay rights rally deemed disturbing to children.  Shoot out in South Ossetia;  Israeli espionag...
May 19, 2011

The Implications of Mironov’s Departure

One of the stranger parentheses in President Medevev’s ‘disappointing’ press conference yesterday was his sudden announcement that Sergei Mironov, the head of the Federation Council and founder of pro-Kremlin opposition party a J...
May 19, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 19, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev’s press conference deemed damp squib; election intrigue remains; Putin upstages tandem partner with hunting recommendations.  Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov dismissed.  Rospil logo raises ire of authoriti...
May 19, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 19, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev’s press conference deemed damp squib; election intrigue remains; Putin upstages tandem partner with hunting recommendations.  Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov dismissed.  Rospil logo raises ire of authoriti...
May 18, 2011

Sochi First, Education Second

The Sochi Olympics is, it would seem, never far from controversy.  The recent set of scandalizing posters advertising housing in the Olympic complex might have lead one to imagine that Putin et al are using Berlin 1936 as the blue print for t...
May 18, 2011

Sochi First, Education Second

The Sochi Olympics is, it would seem, never far from controversy.  The recent set of scandalizing posters advertising housing in the Olympic complex might have lead one to imagine that Putin et al are using Berlin 1936 as the blue print for t...
May 18, 2011

Stage Managing the Election

As President Medvedev prepares to take center stage for the biggest Q and A he has ever held this afternoon, journalists are pondering whether the President will take the opportunity to divulge any details about his election strategy.  Medved...
May 18, 2011

Stage Managing the Election

As President Medvedev prepares to take center stage for the biggest Q and A he has ever held this afternoon, journalists are pondering whether the President will take the opportunity to divulge any details about his election strategy.  Medved...
May 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 18, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev to hold major press conference; election strategy to be revealed? Music critic faces up to two years in jail for Agata Kristi ‘poodle’ insult; gay rights march banned; Khodorkovsky demands criminal investigation into ju...