Vladimir Putin
13/05/2008 > RUSSIA
Russia celebrates Nazi Germany – by accident
A bank inadvertedly advertises the Nazi code for a fellow fighter.
The end of WWII is celebrated on May 9 in Russia. Since Putin came to power, the event has become increasingly more inflated and commercial. But this year, it went a step too far, when eager party-goers put up Nazi symbols in place of Soviet war imagery. Read more...
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09/05/2008 > RUSSIA
"Medvedev is the one who’s really in power"
The Western press reacted cynically to the inauguration of Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, who has been considered a puppet of outgoing president - and now Prime Minister - Vladimir Putin since being elected in March. However, a political analyst in the country and harsh critic of the ruling party, tells us why the idea is entirely speculative. Read more...
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07/05/2008 > RUSSIA
"The West has a twisted vision of Russia"
Dimitri Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia's new president today. Evguenia Obitchkina, an international relations lecturer in Moscow, explains that the conflict between Russia and the West might have more to do with the hydrocarbon trade than human rights. Read more...
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29/02/2008 > RUSSIA
Even school children support Medvedev
Russian tabloid Express Gazeta organized a drawing competition all across Russia to support President Valdimir Putin's successor, Dmitry Medvedev. These drawings, published three days before the presidential election, are strangely reminiscent of personality cults from the Soviet era. See the other drawings.
"Dmitry Anatolyevich is a worthy successor" by Valeriya Emelchenkova, 10, Chelyabinsk region. Medvedev is lifting weights that are labelled "housing", "children", "school", "village", "nature", and "sport".
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27/02/2008 > UNITED STATES
“Med erm, Medeved… Meded-deva…whatever…”
Questioned Tuesday about the name of Putin’s successor in a televised debate with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton faltered to pronounce the name. “Med erm, Medeved… Meded-deva… whatever…” Russian Blogger Alexander Kireev was not impressed. Read more…
Images from MSNBC. Posted 26 Feb. 08
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08/02/2008 > RUSSIA
The Kremlin’s ‘pet democrat’ tells us how to get through the system
Like in the U.S the Russians are also determining candidates for their presidential elections. But for Russian opponents, the primary stage is not to impress the public, but to get past a set of hurdles laid out by the Kremlin. Andrei Bogdanov, nick-named the Kremlin's ‘pet democrat'; is the only liberal-leaning ‘opposition' candidate to have made it through. He explains to us why he made it and Kasyanov didn't. Read more...
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30/01/2008 > RUSSIA
Justice is dogged for former Yukos executive
Thirty-five year old Vasiliy Aleksanyan is a former executive for the Russian oil giant Yukos, which the Russian government has been persecuting for the past few years. Aleksanyan also served as acting Vice President for 6 days before he was arrested. Like his previous boss the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he was accused of tax evasion and money laundering. For the past two years he has been awaiting trial in prison. Aleksanyan is dying of AIDS, but the authorities refuse to allow him to be hospitalised. He says that the prosecution offered to free him if he testified against former heads of Yukos. Well-known antagonists of Putin's Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are already serving prison sentences. Read more...
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