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Off with Their Heads - By Simon Shuster

Source: Foreign Policy, Dec 5 2012, 5:57pm CST

MOSCOW — Over the past month, a surreal new element has come to dominate Russia's nightly news. At times it feels like some sort of hybrid reality show, as if the Kremlin's propaganda men have started splicing episodes of MTV Cribs with episodes of CO ...

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Russian Press at a Glance, Friday, May 24, 2013

Source: RIA Novosti  |   May 24 2013, 1:45am CDT

POLITICS The Kremlin has ordered all Russian governors attend management training courses in June. ( Kommersant ) Sergei Prikhodko, who has served as a foreign policy advisor to Russia's leaders for more than 15 years, has been appointed ...

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4 hours ago

Putin to Meet with Serbian President

Source: RIA Novosti  |   May 23 2013, 9:16pm CDT

MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, the Kremlin reported. Nikolic will pay a working visit to Russia on Putin’s inv ...

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24 weeks ago


Quote:
"He is too dependent on the boyars [feudal lords] to go chopping off their heads, but that is what the people are now demanding."


Source: Foreign Policy

 

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7 hours ago

Dead Chechen's dad's buddy Ramzan Kadyrov is the Checheniest Chechen of them all

Source: Steve Sailer-Articles & Blog on Human Biodiversity, Genetics  |   May 23 2013, 6:47pm CDT

Ramzan Kadyrov Ramzan is a son of former Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May 2004. In February 2007, Kadyrov replaced Alu Alkhanov as President, shortly after he had turned 30, w ...

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8 hours ago

Youth in BRIC nations need to cement their politics

Source: Economic Times  |   May 23 2013, 5:51pm CDT

In Moscow, they are "non-Soviet Russians." In New Delhi, they are a "political Goliath" that may soon awake. In Beijing and Sao Paolo, they are lawyers and other professionals who complain about glacial government bureaucracies ...

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10 hours ago

Lithuania to extradite Dmitry Ustinov to the U.S.

Source: Voice of Russia  |   May 23 2013, 3:56pm CDT

Scotland Yard has released a new statement, saying a man and a woman were arrested today on suspicion of conspiracy to murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. In a sweeping speech about the future of counter-terrorism, President ...

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12 hours ago

Jed Babbin: Why Putin's anti-American gambits succeed

Source: Washington Examiner   |   May 23 2013, 1:30pm CDT

Thanks to an assortment of White House spokesmen, we know that President Obama wasn't talking with then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the night of the Benghazi terr ...

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16 hours ago

Imprisoned Entrepreneurs and Russia’s Economic Slump

Source: Bloomberg.com  |   May 23 2013, 9:33am CDT

President Vladimir Putin’s popularity throughout much of Russia is founded on an implicit social compact: People have given up some freedom in return for economic prosperity. Now, Putin’s authoritarian ways could ...

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17 hours ago

Opposition group raided in Moscow

Source: United Press International  |   May 23 2013, 8:49am CDT

MOSCOW, May 23 (UPI) -- Russian police said Thursday they arrested a Moscow leader of the opposition Left Front movement and raided a bodyguard for party chief Sergei Udaltsov. Human rights officials in ...

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19 hours ago

Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations

Source: Russia Today  |   May 23 2013, 7:08am CDT

US President Barack Obama has received a personal response to his letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin: Moscow and Washington must work to overcome antagonism and deal with global political issues as partners, not foes. The response was delivered b ...

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