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Why Russia Loves Putin

2007-12-19 00:26:30 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...predictable and comfortable life after two decades of the most extreme social upheaval What is Putins background The son of a manual laborer and a teacher, Putin was born in 1952 in Leningrad...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dmitry Medvedev : Putin Appoints a Successor

2007-12-12 18:08:00 by Aidan Maconachy in aidan maconachy
 
...predictable as leader, Medvedev is unlikely to buck Putin's agenda. He was part of the push to rebuild Russia along more centralized and authoritarian lines. In his role as head of Gazprom...
 
 
 
 
 
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Medvedev as Putin's Successor: Nash Dom Gazprom?

2007-12-10 09:53:00 by Putin watcher in Perspectives on the new Russia
 
...predictable choice: for almost a year, Dmitrii Medvedev, the deputy prime minister, has been considered a likely successor to Putin (second only to Ivanov the other deputy prime minister ...
 
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin, the final Installment

2008-03-01 01:22:37 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...predictable laws that can be fairly defended in independent courts of law We need to create the conditions needed for small and midsize businesses to grow and create more jobs, making as many...
 
 
 
 
 
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Economic forecasts and claims by Putin and others at the St. Petersburg economic forum.

2007-06-15 12:13:00 by Editor in Cyrill Vatomsky, Where All Politics Are Global
 
...predictable ease former Soviet apparatchiks show while dealing with numbers. Mr. Putin it appears had outright lied That in 2007 G-7's share of world economic output was 41% was true. But it is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gorbachev Remains Slippery on Putin

2008-01-29 14:12:49 by James in Robert Amsterdam
 
...predictable from the outset and predetermined by the enormous role that Vladimir Putin played. He also took aim at Russia's flawed democratic institutions: " Something is wrong with our...
 
 
 
 
 
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A predictable consequence of undermining Serbia's sovereignty

2008-04-18 16:21:46 by Chekov in Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness
 
Predictably outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to consolidate ties between his government and breakaway Republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia. The areas have enjoyed de...
 
 
 
 
 
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The man behind the curtain

2008-02-04 10:26:00 by AKULA in From Russia with Lies
 
...predictable from the outset" and "predetermined by the enormous role that Vladimir Putin has played." That's not all that was "predictable" or "predetermined." Though Mr. Gorbachev's remarks...
 
 
 
 
 
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Stop the Kowtow to Moscow

2008-02-04 21:30:08 by James in Robert Amsterdam
 
...predictable yet mystifying presidential election on March 2. Predictable because everyone knows who will win: Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's polite, lawyerly sidekick; mystifying because the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Brutal, Cynical Russia: Now is the Time to Fight Back

2008-02-06 20:23:18 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...predictable yet mystifying presidential election on March 2. Predictable because everyone knows who will win: Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's polite, lawyerly sidekick; mystifying because the...