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The Specter of Inflation Looms Above Vladimir Putin's Russia

2008-06-01 12:18:29 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measures that fuel inflation With global growth under threat because of the financial crisis, Russia is selling itself to foreign investors as a place where the rewards are still rich. It is a...
 
Tags: inflation, control, ruble, control inflation, ruble steady, double-digit inflation, ruble months ago, inflation eat, single-digit inflation
 
 
 
 
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Listening to Russia: Who Really Rules?

2008-08-05 11:30:46 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measure for measure; (b) He generally does what Putin would do; (c) He is partically charting a new course; (d) He is entirely his own man; (e) I have no idea In the July survey, 31% of...
 
Tags: jot, putin jot, putin, putin measure, measure, vladimir putin, dimitry medvedev, medvedev, real power
 
 
 
 
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Why Russia Loves Putin

2007-12-19 00:26:30 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...measure of Putins popularity. Many voters were forced to mark ballots in full view of soldiers, for instance, and United Russia reportedly bought votes with cash and vodka. Still, such tactics...
 
Tags: putin, russians revere, russians, russians love putin, lawyer urged putin, russia, anti-putin demonstration, russias oil industry, russias oil
 
 
 
 
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Calling Putin's Bluff

2008-02-06 20:23:18 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measure of democracy, the Times of London hailed him as Russia's best leader since Alexander II, the tsar who freed the serfs in 1861 Then came the jailing of Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and...
 
Tags: putin, call vladimir putin, corruption putin, future president medvedev, medvedev, hope medvedev, mind medvedev, service, unflinchingly loyal service
 
 
 
 
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Putin Will Stay Forever, Dooming Russia Utterly

2008-02-17 14:25:49 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measure. The United States carries out such flights, sometimes coming close to Russia's borders, even though Moscow stopped its own long-range patrols in the late 1980s, Putin said Occasionally,...
 
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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Pauper or Oligarch - The Strange Case of Putin's Wealth

2008-01-04 12:55:00 by W. Shedd in The Accidental Russophile
 
...measure of pride in judging their President as being a tough and, in their perception, honest man. He was bringing the oligarchs to heel, after all and making them pay for their thefts from the...
 
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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
 
...measure of something that they do not support separatist-nationalist parties, with or without some Islamic connection: they too have firmly followed Mr Putin. He seems, in other words, to have...
 
Tags: putin, president putin, russian, russian media, vladimir putin, russia altogether, russian political life, russia, russian people
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin via Essel, Part 5

2008-02-24 18:24:23 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measure was a good one, but only needed the once. It would have been far better for the government to devote its efforts to improving the infrastructure in the countryside, building roads and...
 
Tags: national project, agro-industrial national project, education national project, social, real social reforms, reforms, constitution, constitution guarantees citizens, health
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Energy Schemes, Imploding like the USSR

2008-01-29 09:20:19 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...measure. This idea of we have suffered so much so you should do what we say a sort of superiority complex based on an inferiority complex clouds Russian strategic thinking and contributes to the...
 
Tags: russia, natural gas russia, natural, natural gas lines, consumer natural gas, russian natural gas, russia leverage, border russia, russia natural gas
 
 
 
 
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How to Stop Putin

2008-08-14 11:43:00 by Kenneth Ramírez Domínguez in Weltpolitik Blog
 
...measures to be deployed if Russia does not live up to its cease-fire commitments 1. Suspend the NATO-Russia Council established in 2002 to help bring Russia closer to the West. Make clear that...
 
Tags: georgia proper, georgia, russia-georgia cease-fire, russia, warns russia, russia closer, putin, russian, russian action