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Putin Hails Election Win as Monitors Condemn Abuses (Update1)

2007-12-03 10:50:00 by Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7 in Russia News Watch
 
...criticism as ``one-sided The Central Election Commission said United Russia took just over 64 percent of the vote in yesterday's election, with nearly all votes counted. Turnout was 63 percent,...
 
Tags: election, presidential election, march presidential election, putin, election code, march, relationship, nato-russia relationship, russia
 
 
 
 
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Criticism of TIME's Selection of Putin as Person of the Year

2007-12-31 14:44:33 by James in Robert Amsterdam
 
...criticism of the TIME selection - this one is from a column in the San Antonio Express News: So here's some criticism based on Stengel's own standard. If you define "powerful" as having at your...
 
Tags: criticism, putin, criticism based, extraordinary circumstances amounts, increasingly autocratic nation, immense power, police secret, media forces, time selection
 
 
 
 
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The Putin Purge Begins

2008-06-05 17:28:05 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...criticism of the government A small national network, Ren TV, pushes the boundaries, as does a national radio station, the Echo of Moscow, which has become the voice of the opposition even...
 
Tags: networks news director, networks, regional networks arose, major television networks, russian networks, tv networks, major national networks, major national, opposition politicians
 
 
 
 
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No wonder they like Putin

2007-12-04 22:02:00 by White Crow in From the Perspective of a White Crow
 
...criticism will sweep that away. President Putin is popular, and from a Russian perspective, you can easily see why. Indeed, the outcome of his recent election more than slightly resembles...
 
Tags: putin, president putin, russian, russian media, vladimir putin, russia altogether, russian political life, russia, russian people
 
 
 
 
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Aslund Rips Putin Another New One

2008-01-10 14:16:07 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...criticism of Putin has eased, and it is controlled by the Sechin crowd On Nov. 30, Kommersant published the extraordinary Oleg Shvartsman interview that blackened Sechin and, interestingly,...
 
Tags: medvedev, medvedev-putin dream team, dream, putin, president medvedev, dream team, medvedev chairs, putin-medvedev, president vladimir putin
 
 
 
 
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Putin Will Stay Forever, Dooming Russia Utterly

2008-02-17 14:25:49 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...criticism of Russian elections, which, he said, is used to discredit Moscow's foreign policy. "Who is going to listen to Russia's position on Kosovo if Russia itself is supposedly an...
 
Tags: putin, president vladimir putin, putin poked fun, putin repeatedly, longtime putin loyalist, russia, election observers, european election observers, control russia
 
 
 
 
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The Putin Legacy

2008-02-28 11:28:25 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...criticism. After a reform to the state-subsidized drug program left thousands short of medicine in 2007, Zurabov took the fall, being shown the door when Mikhail Fradkov's government was...
 
Tags: health care, health care system, putin, putin legacy, minister, social development minister, social, social situation, health
 
 
 
 
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The Putin Generation: How Will Its Rise Affect US-Russian Relations?

2008-07-15 10:03:02 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...criticism of Russia's past that left them with nothing of their own to believe in. "Just as Christian asceticism was a moral protest against the debauchery and dissipation of decrepit Rome," he...
 
Tags: putin generation, putin generation expects, putin, putin generation poses, putin majority, view, consensus view, russians view putin, russians
 
 
 
 
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Time's Person of the year: Vladimir Putin

2007-12-23 21:53:00 by Kenneth Ramírez Domínguez in Weltpolitik Blog
 
...criticism directed at them. His message is: I am sustaining the vertical structure with both my hands, and I don't care what my critics try to cadge from foreign embassies Don't look Putin in...
 
Tags: putin, vladimir putin, credits putin, named vladimir putin, time, person, magazine, time magazine, russia
 
 
 
 
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Putin's 'Jackals'

2007-12-03 10:39:00 by Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7 in Russia News Watch
 
...criticism -- a semidivine figure who determines where the country goes and whose utterances decide what's permissible and what's not The national leader's choice of words, therefore, can't be...
 
Tags: putin, president putin, russia, russia rally, president vladimir putin, russia party, state-society relations, society, russia campaign