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PUTIN: TIMES PERSON OF THE YEAR

2007-12-19 07:39:00 by AKULA in From Russia with Lies
 
...pression of ordinary needs, like blinking. The affect is now seamless, which makes talking to the Russian President not just exhausting but often chilling. It's a gaze that says, I'm in charge ...
 
 
 
 
 
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How Putin Muzzled the Russian Press

2008-06-29 12:23:26 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...Press Congress in Moscow on June 11, Mr. Medvedev pledged to "support media freedom." But the picture remains bleak Mr. Medvedev recently touted the need for a "Cyrillic Internet" and criticized...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin vows to make relations with Latin America a top foreign policy priority

2008-10-05 06:20:00 by Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7 in Russia News Watch
 
...Press | Sep 25, 08 3:54 PM CDT in World Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to make relations with Latin America a top foreign policy priority, a pledge backed by the first Russian...
 
 
 
 
 
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Complete Video and Transcript of Times Interview with Vladimir Putin

2007-12-22 21:13:52 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...pressing and long-standing issues in the international arena, namely the Middle Eastern peace settlement. For our part, we will do and have done everything to support him and we will do...
 
 
 
 
 
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Discussing Russia's Freedom of the Press at Journalism School

2008-01-12 16:18:40 by Robert Amsterdam in Robert Amsterdam
 
...press" means back in the motherland. A few of my students in Russia did believe in the possibility of a free press, though not all who did were sure that a free press is a good thing. When one...
 
 
 
 
 
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Berlusconi and Putin Display Mastery of Banter

2008-04-18 19:17:59 by Robert Amsterdam in Robert Amsterdam
 
...press corps covering the Berlusconi-Putin Spaghetti summit in Sardinia - it must be difficult to constantly think up new questions that will not receive any substantive answers. That's not to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Quiet Coup D'etat

2008-05-06 19:23:15 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...press conferences as president, Putin said that he was leaving everything in the Kremlin to his successor except for the fountain pen that Boris Yeltsin used to sign his most important decrees...
 
 
 
 
 
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Kasparov Challenges Putin to Duel

2007-12-24 01:09:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...press concern about his troubling record on human rights. The same things could have been said about Adolf Hitler in 1938, when he took his turn as TIMEs Man of the Year. Fascism, TIME wrote...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Puppet Press

2008-05-20 21:21:42 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...press top officials. In fact, apart from the interviews with Gevorkyan and Kolesnikov, Putin, as president, never publicly faced a single unfriendly question from a Russian reporter During...
 
 
 
 
 
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Vladimir Putin: Thief and Liar

2008-03-09 12:25:06 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...press conference on 14 February, Putin for the first time commented on these rumours It is true. I am the richest man not only in Europe, but in the world: I amass emotions and am rich in...