russia politics

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...
May 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 17, 2011

TODAY: Opposition festival of resistance to take place today; will Mikhail Prokhorov make a difference to the Right Cause? Russia criticizes Minsk’s draconian treatment of opposition; Sochi posters cause a stir. Khodorkovsky’s prison a...
May 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 17, 2011

TODAY: Opposition festival of resistance to take place today; will Mikhail Prokhorov make a difference to the Right Cause? Russia criticizes Minsk’s draconian treatment of opposition; Sochi posters cause a stir. Khodorkovsky’s prison a...
May 16, 2011

Russian Fears For Fate of Afghanistan

As the US gears up for withdrawal of its its troops from Afghanistan, which will begin in July, RFE/RL quotes Frants Klintsevich, who served as a colonel during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and now heads up Russia’s Union of Af...
May 16, 2011

Prokhorov Ready for Right Cause

Intriguing news has been confirmed this morning: multi billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is interested in becoming the leader of the Right Cause party, the political organization which, in November 2010, called for a second term for President Medvedev...
May 16, 2011

Prokhorov Ready for Right Cause

Intriguing news has been confirmed this morning: multi billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is interested in becoming the leader of the Right Cause party, the political organization which, in November 2010, called for a second term for President Medvedev...
May 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 16, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev challenges Putin in verbal address; Russia’s richest man to enter politics? Foreign Ministry dismisses Amnesty International rights criticisms; Khimki forest activists detained at demo. Belarus jails presidential candidate; J...
May 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 16, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev challenges Putin in verbal address; Russia’s richest man to enter politics? Foreign Ministry dismisses Amnesty International rights criticisms; Khimki forest activists detained at demo. Belarus jails presidential candidate; J...
May 13, 2011

Medvedev On the Margins?

President Medvedev’s non-committal comments regarding Vladimir Putin’s All Russia People’s Front at a radio interview yesterday confirmed to some minds the evidence of a breach between the Prime Minister and the President as the ...
May 13, 2011

Medvedev On the Margins?

President Medvedev’s non-committal comments regarding Vladimir Putin’s All Russia People’s Front at a radio interview yesterday confirmed to some minds the evidence of a breach between the Prime Minister and the President as the ...