Russia

November 8, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 8, 2011

TODAY: Occupy Old Square protest dispersed; ‘Defenders of Moscow’ march commemorated; United Russia’s waning support; party employing poster and facebook trickery?  Just Russia leader makes clear his opposition to Putin; Khodorko...
November 7, 2011

Red Resurgence?

Today an article from Deutsche Welle suggested that Russia’s Communist Party is poised to make considerable progress in the upcoming elections.  The party is apparently on course to gain as much as 17% of the vote, which would render it the ...
November 4, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 4, 2011

TODAY: Is Unity Day; to be marked by nationalist marches; divisions between patriotic factions emerge; Navalny’s decision to attend greeted with controversy.  Voina’s latest action; Youtube offers locus for satire; the spurious use of ...
November 4, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 4, 2011

TODAY: Is Unity Day; to be marked by nationalist marches; divisions between patriotic factions emerge; Navalny’s decision to attend greeted with controversy.  Voina’s latest action; Youtube offers locus for satire; the spurious use of ...
November 3, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 3, 2011

TODAY: Extent of aggression against journalists revealed; activists decry Putin’s press prize gesture; NTV attacked for censorship (again); police deny detention of child at opposition rally.  The nationalist problem analyzed ahead of Friday...
November 2, 2011

Putin’s Press Awards Deemed ‘Cynical’

The unlikely news that Vladimir Putin has offered an annual award for excellence in print journalism to Khimki forest reporter Mikhail Beketov has been criticized, entirely justifiably, as a disingenuous attempt to quell international concerns abo...
November 2, 2011

Georgia’s WTO Turnaround

This morning reports came in of Georgian billionaire and opposition agitator Bidzina Ivanishvili lamenting that President Mikheil Saakashvili’s apparent secession on political objectives to Russia joining the WTO, is an act of political cowardice,...
November 1, 2011

Russia’s Summertime, Medvedev’s Fall

In February of this year, President Medvedev decreed that Russia would not follow the long-standing practice of turning the clocks back one hour at the end of October, but would instead remain in a permanent temporal, if not meteorological, summer...
November 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 rallies broken up, participants complain of beatings; Lavrov highlights police dispersal of Occupy Wall Street; Parnas offices subject to raid; UR member caught offering to pay for votes.  NTV accused of censorship; Agata Kristi...
October 31, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 31, 2011

TODAY: Activists sentenced over December race riots; nationalists and opposition members among those jailed; Interior Ministry toughens stance on Luzhkov; Putin offers hard line on graft; President Medvedev and daylight saving chaos.  Kyrgyzstan e...