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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin Volume I, by Essel, Part I

2008-02-17 14:25:51 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...real incomes have, according to the statistics, have more than doubled and poverty has been reduced with the number of people with incomes below the official subsistence level down from 29% in...
 
Tags: gigantic non-government media, media, giant gazprom-media, putins, putins political, putins friends, russian, russian federation, banks owners
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...real interests, we will arrive at the right results QUESTION: What would be an example of this VLADIMIR PUTIN: The North Korean nuclear issue. There we have had patience, adopted a serious...
 
Tags: american people, american people directly, presidential election campaign, presidential, american presidential election, american people confidence, confidence, american, american bayonets
 
 
 
 
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The Putin Legacy

2008-02-28 11:28:25 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...really scared the government," said Yevgeny Gartung, State Duma deputy from the Just Russia party and former head of the now-defunct Pensioners Party The tumultuous scenes highlighted not just...
 
Tags: health care, health care system, putin, putin legacy, minister, social development minister, social, social situation, health
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...reality, however, its main provisions were all trampled into the dust long ago. The Russian Constitution has to all intents and purposes ceased to mean anything First and foremost, Russia is no...
 
Tags: national project, agro-industrial national project, education national project, social, real social reforms, reforms, constitution, constitution guarantees citizens, health
 
 
 
 
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Don Putin

2007-12-18 21:19:24 by Sean in Sean's Russia Blog
 
...really shocked by Putin taking Medvedevs offer even though the news over the last week was full of speculation whether he actually would. The second, and probably more apt to Russian politics...
 
Tags: putin, medvedev, putin chose medvedev, putin publicly, move, sound move, strong putin, petty political move, future
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Nemtsov on Putin via Essel, Part 6

2008-02-26 21:23:58 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...real threat to our country. Unlike the countries of the West, China does lay open and unconcealed claims to Russian territory. At the very time when former US Secretary of State Madeleine...
 
Tags: russia, russia remains, tsarist russia, fear russia, russia exists, putin, russia doe, ruin russia, countries
 
 
 
 
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Most Russians do not love Putin per se, but they love Putins Russia.

2008-03-02 19:06:42 by Sean in Sean's Russia Blog
 
...real sad part is that instead of allowing Kasyanov to run openly and uninhibited to show the world that Russians dont care about him, the Kremlins minion in the Central Election Commission...
 
Tags: love, love putins russia, russia, putins russia, love putin, russia misha, putins, democratic process, process
 
 
 
 
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Another Original LR Translation: Putin as Hitler

2008-03-02 15:29:13 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...real Leader of the People (for as long as a majority of the people consider him as such) could be bad for his people. The majority of Germans to the very end of the Third Reich considered Hitler...
 
Tags: president putin, president putin strives, president putin secretes, putin, president putin hints, president putin delivers, president putin runs, putin continues, putin elite
 
 
 
 
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Putin wants his own little WTO.

2007-06-11 11:12:00 by Editor in Cyrill Vatomsky, Where All Politics Are Global
 
...real thing. A temper tantrum to be sure; not as gross, but still illustrative Naturally, Mr. Putin immediately got supporters for his grandiose idea of setting his own skull and bones: the...
 
Tags: putin, wto, join wto, putin decides, putin immediately, immediately, idea putin, wto membership, wto ascension
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...Real inflation is believed to be higher than the official figures, and a recent poll indicated that about 67 percent of Russians identify inflation as the most urgent issue facing the country...
 
Tags: inflation, control, ruble, control inflation, ruble steady, double-digit inflation, ruble months ago, inflation eat, single-digit inflation