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The Economist Rips Putin a New One

2008-03-04 22:44:16 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...speeches, his instincts are to favour liberalisation and a reining-in of the state's role in the economy. Unfortunately, his failure to reform Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, when he was its...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin's Plan - What's that?

2007-10-22 15:56:00 by Jesse Heath in Russia Monitor
 
...speeches have stressed the need for the rule of law ('правовое государство') and democracy, they have been held out as goals to be achieved, such as reversing population...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin's 'Jackals'

2007-12-03 10:39:00 by Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7 in Russia News Watch
 
...speeches, particularly his attack on the U.S. at an international security conference in Munich in February, suggest that he has the amerikantsy foremost in mind. For many Russians today,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bonner on Putin

2008-01-29 09:20:20 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...speeches in the 1980s, including his New Year's radio message to the Soviet people broadcast over the Voice of America on January 1, 1987. "Reagan had a soft spot for Sakharov and regarded him...
 
 
 
 
 
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Russia's Putin lashes out at West's "arms race"

2008-02-08 06:05:00 by AKULA in From Russia with Lies
 
...speeches before he steps down It was also widely regarded as a manifesto for Dmitry Medvedev, the man he has endorsed to succeed him Medvedev, a 42-year-old first deputy prime minister and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Vladimir Putin tells summit he wants security and friendship

2008-04-05 12:00:00 by Kenneth Ramírez Domínguez in Weltpolitik Blog
 
...speeches. But his discussions with Nato had not involved a ping-pong match of mutual blame Some people may choose to play around in the murky waters of another Cold War but it was in no ones...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putin Won't Be Eager to Please Obama

2008-11-05 17:03:48 by James in Robert Amsterdam
 
...speeches are peppered with references to unnamed powers that want to weaken or even break up Russia as part of a plot to seize its energy resources. (...) Both candidates were tough on Russia...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bret Stephens on Putin's Political Prisoners

2008-02-20 14:17:42 by James in Robert Amsterdam
 
...speeches by Russia's own defense minister). Yet that didn't prevent a court from handing down a 15-year sentence. Similar convictions for "spying" have been handed down to at least four others:...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Sunday Sacrilidge, Part I: Putin Says Russia isn't Savage . . . The Moscow Times Begs to Differ

2007-12-23 04:17:00 by La Russophobe in La Russophobe
 
...speeches one after the other while the staff waits painfully for the food and drinks, Churilova said. One French company deeply underestimated the determination of its employees to get drunk,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Five Hypotheses About the Future of Power in Russia

2008-03-10 19:41:24 by Editor in Russia Blog
 
...speeches, both in the Duma and Presidential elections, as well as Medvedevs, have had one theme: Do not fear, nothing will change, the same team and the same policy will continue. Under this...