Council of Conservative Citizens (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
From The Right Perspective: Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”. “In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at...
Swampland (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Add another complication to the tangle of relations--with a happy face--that is the U.S.-Russian relationship. It does not concern nuclear weapons, Iran, missile defense, Saakashvili's Georgia or even Vladamir Putin's creepy penchant for baring his pecs. Rather the dispute centers around a notorious criminal, whom Russia authorities seem intent of protecting from prosecution. Viktor Bout,...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
... Miller, the team’s new owner knows former Russian President and current Prime minister Vladamir Putin very well, and despite reports of some Russian Parliament members not being happy with the purchase, the sale appears to have the Kremlin’s approval. Obama had talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at last week’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh, and the White House...
Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... Nazis rather than take the blame himself.* ...and that's what justifies the title to this post: Vladamir Putin (ex-President, current Prime Minister, and President-elect-in-waiting ) is not just an admirer of Stalin -- he's also someone who I think is capable of using Stalin's methods: killing to advance his own cause while blaming others for those deaths. Which deaths? The people...
