Russia

December 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 16, 2011

TODAY: Fallout from Putin’s Q&A; Alexei Kudrin to return to government? Kremlin reshuffle; Prokhorov, as president, would pardon Khodorkovsky, Limonov to run for president also; newspaper founder shot dead in North Caucasus; EU Parliament back...
December 15, 2011

No Surprises At Putin’s Q+A

The Guardian has been patient enough to blog its way through the whole of Vladimir Putin’s four-and-half hour televised Q+A session which featured much in the way of predictable, anodyne questions on the matter of pensions, Sochi, adoptions ...
December 15, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 15, 2011

TODAY: Putin begins TV Q+A; United Russia stalwart Boris Gryzlov resigns; protest march scheduled for Dec 24, permission granted for turnout of 50,000; Kommersant journalists express anger.  Russian humanitarian convoy blocked amid tensions in Kos...
December 15, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 15, 2011

TODAY: Putin begins TV Q+A; United Russia stalwart Boris Gryzlov resigns; protest march scheduled for Dec 24, permission granted for turnout of 50,000; Kommersant journalists express anger.  Russian humanitarian convoy blocked amid tensions in Kos...
December 14, 2011

Kommersant Under Attack

If anyone had any illusions about the state of media freedom in Russia, they will have been put to bed by yesterday’s ugly and unabashed intervention in the work of Kommersant publishing house.  Kommersant Vlast editor-in-chief Maxim Kovalsk...
December 14, 2011

Kommersant Under Attack

If anyone had any illusions about the state of media freedom in Russia, they will have been put to bed by yesterday’s ugly and unabashed intervention in the work of Kommersant publishing house.  Kommersant Vlast editor-in-chief Maxim Kovalsk...
December 14, 2011

The Pied Piper Of Protest

In today’s Moscow Times Yulia Latynina takes issue with Other Russia leader Eduard Limonov’s incendiary stance on how the Russian ‘evolution’ should be managed, (revolution would be a better option, he suggests).  ‘Pi...
December 13, 2011

Prokhorov – Pawn or King?

As is all too often the case in the sphere of Russian politics, in order to understand the reality of seemingly organic shifts in the political landscape we must scrutinize its seamy side, which is mapped out in the shadowy corridors of the Kremli...
December 13, 2011

Prokhorov – Pawn or King?

As is all too often the case in the sphere of Russian politics, in order to understand the reality of seemingly organic shifts in the political landscape we must scrutinize its seamy side, which is mapped out in the shadowy corridors of the Kremli...
December 13, 2011

Twitter Autocracy?

One of the many threads to emerge from the dramatic events of last week is the ascendant role of social media. It was widely publicized last week that, prior to the protest rally in Moscow on Saturday, a Facebook group attracted 20,000 names who p...