On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moscow - A Russian police officer, annoyed with poor working conditions and overtime, skipped formal avenues for complaints and went straight to the top, via the internet, posting his grievances for the attention of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dre...
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Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Moscow - A Russian police officer who posted two video clips on the internet to air his grievances directly to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about pay and overtime work conditions said Sunday he now feared for his life. The Interfax agency cited Majo...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's President Vladimir Putin famously once proclaimed, was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated to stoke ever-combustible Russian nationalism, articulating his country's grievances against a world which no longer gave it the respect it believed due.
Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! "We have beaten Russia 116-112 in boxing!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Russia! "Russia, birthplace of giants. "Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Maria Sharapova, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Kournikova, --- we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all. "Vladimir...
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
How do we motivate the American public to action on climate change and our transition to a clean energy economy? Appeal to patriotism, says this piece in the C.S. Monitor : The way to get Americans to take action? Appeal to their patriotism. Historically in times of war, the US government has successfully gotten citizens to join the armed forces, to buy war bonds, and to accept rationing by appealing...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's communist party denounced powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while cautiously praising President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as a man who had brought 'certain hopes' to the country.
Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I'm home again from an absolutely fascinating tour of post-communist Eastern Europe and can start writing about it as soon as I get my interviews transcribed. After leaving Romania, I was supposed to visit Chernobyl and the apocalyptic ghost city of Pripyat outside Kiev, Ukraine, but the trip was cancelled at the last minute. The Chernobyl Administration wasn't letting anyone into the area for reasons...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ukraine has paid Russia for October gas supplies, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Friday, after her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had warned against late payment. "Today we've paid Russia the next 500 million dollars (336 million euros)," Tymoshenko said during a visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Late last week, Putin said Ukraine appeared to be struggling to...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The decision of U.S. automaker General Motors to scrap plans for selling its European Opel unit will not affect the Russian auto industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "GM's decision not to carry out the deal and to drop plans to sell Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium will clearly not damage our interests," Putin said. Putin said Russia would continue to cooperate with...
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The politics of hydrocarbons in Central Asia has been a regular ballroom lately, with strange partners pairing up and then dancing apart. The dance begins in Denmark, to which country Vladimir Putin has just pledged to increase the flow of gas: We are grateful to the Danish Government for giving permission for the construction of the Nord [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
• Opel workers walk out in protest but relief at Vauxhall • Carmaker scraps agreement with Magna and Sberbank The row over General Motors' decision to scrap a European sales deal supported by Russia and Germany escalated today, with Vladimir Putin accusing the car group of "scornful" behaviour. The Russian president said his country had learned a lesson about US corporate behaviour...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Don't miss this one-page article in MoJo . For more than a decade Dr. Igor Panarin, a Russian academic, has been predicting that sometime around 2010 the United States will collapse, splintering into separate states, some of them controlled by foreign powers. Outside of Russia, no one's put much stock in his crackpot and stereotype-based theories—until now, that is. Who are the newest members...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Russia's ailing automaker AvtoVAZ requires an additional 5 billion rubles ($170 million) in investment to make competitive products, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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habser | 10/04/2009
Everyone’s waiting to see how French automaker Renault SA would respond to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to help Russian automaker AvtoVAZ or see its stake reduced. Putin said in front of government officials that Renault has to help fund the enterprise or its stakes would have to be divided.
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trymi | 05/13/2009
Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, at the request of Magna, has said that the Russian conglomerate GAZ is contemplating a 30 percent stake in Opel .
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