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Is Medvedev: "Russia's Last Hope"? And Assessing Putin's Legacy

2008-03-01 07:00:01 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...Dimitry Medvedev Russias Last Hope By Victor Erofeyev The New York Times (republished from the International Herald Tribune February 29, 2008 If I recover from a bout of stomach illness by...
 
Tags: putin, russia, president putin, vladimir putin, russia watchers, legacy, s-russia relations, president, vice president
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Betrayal of Russia Runs Wide and Deep

2008-01-03 01:39:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...Dimitry Medvedev - Putin's choice. And under the circumstances, this is the best choice. But if Putin had tried to go beyond this simplification of political structure, he would have had much...
 
Tags: putin, political, political ambition, real political parties, russia, vladimir putin, dimitry medvedev, medvedev, political agenda
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Cold War

2007-12-31 03:11:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...Dimitry Medvedev's appointment to the presidency notwithstanding, looks more and more like it will be from a presidency to a kind of Putin regency Creating a sense of a besieged fortress at a...
 
Tags: russia, revolutionary russia, strong russia, putin, iran blocks, russian foreign policy, iran, foreign policy, iran policy
 
 
 
 
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Medvedev, Putin, the Prime Minister and the Napoleonic Precedent

2007-12-12 09:43:00 by Nikolas K. Gvosdev in The Washington Realist
 
...Dimitry Medvedev's prime minister: "I have difficulty seeing Putin as a prime ministerial figure. The prime minister is still subordinate to the president, because of the way the Russian...
 
Tags: putin, prime minister, vladimir putin, leadership, russian constitution, prime ministerial figure, preeminent leadership, constitution, dimitry medvedev
 
 
 
 
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Comparing Putin to Lee Kuan Yew

2008-02-15 07:00:01 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...Dimitry Medvedev , after the elections of March 2008 Thomas P.M. Barnett , a noted bestselling author and expert on Russia, posted a few thoughts on his weblog this week about Russian President...
 
Tags: russia, russia blog, putin, lee kuan yew, barnett, claim putin, post, harvard university, global economic landscape
 
 
 
 
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Confronting Vladimir Putin

2008-04-06 13:17:52 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...Dimitry Medvedev in Sochi on Sunday, I hope he will remember the pledge he made in his second inaugural address in 2005. In that memorable speech, he promised that the United States would not...
 
Tags: putin, president george bush, bush, president, confront vladimir putin, nizhny novgorod, president-elect dimitry medvedev, nizhny novgorod edition, president vladimir putin
 
 
 
 
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Russians Beg for Mercy from Tsar Dimitry

2008-05-06 19:23:11 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
The Moscow Times reports Thousands of people used traditional May Day marches to call for something new: an end to rising food prices. The protests against rising inflation and living costs...
 
Tags: food, food staples, lower food costs, food wholesalers, wholesalers, global food crisis, food prices, prices, inflation
 
 
 
 
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Russia's Ambassador to NATO Speaks Out in D.C.

2008-07-28 07:32:08 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
Dimitry Rogozin is a retired three-star general and nationalist politician The last time Dimitry Rogozin appeared on Russia Blog over two years ago, he was starring in a television ad for his...
 
Tags: russia, russia hoped america, russia-nato relations, nato, meaningful partnership, partnership, russia-nato partnership, russia blog, nato claims
 
 
 
 
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Niether Purge nor Coup

2008-01-09 20:53:57 by Sean in Sean's Russia Blog
 
...Dimitry Medvedev as the next Don. Medvedevs loyalty is to Putin alone and therefore makes him a suitable future manager of the clans in. One should emphasize future because as things stand now,...
 
Tags: medvedev, medvedev-putin dream team, putin, move putin, putin stash, putins, putins wealth, wealth, coup
 
 
 
 
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The Misconception of Russian Authoritarianism Part 1 - Defining Democracy in Russia

2008-07-11 01:09:35 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...Dimitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I...
 
Tags: democracy, russian, crs defines democracy, modern democracy includes, modern russian democracy, russian centers, russian democratic history, word democracy, ideal democracy