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WASHINGTON D.C., February 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Srdja Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles and Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies, in a recent article, has claimed that Western media reporting on Russia is "bias" and "stereotypical", and has said that the "West" should put more trust in Russia. Trifkovic said: "Most Western media professionals tend to subscribe, consciously or not, to a neo-liberal world outlook in general...
WASHINGTON, January 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthony T. Salvia, Director of the American Institute in Ukraine, and consultant in international public advocacy and governmental affairs, has called on the US to re-evaluate its narrative on Russia in light of its comments following the Russian Duma elections in December of last year: "Secretary of State Clinton's reaction to evidence of vote fraud in Russia's parliamentary elections of last December 4th hammered one more...
Text of report by mass-circulation Russian weekly Argumenty i Fakty on 30 July [Interview with Centre TV presenter Aleksey Pushkov by Aleksandr Kolesnichenko: "Aleksey Pushkov: "Is TV for morons or for people?"] In the opinion of Culture Minister Aleksandr Avdeyev, who was speaking at the [Russian State] Duma, our federal television channels are not meeting the state's objectives: "Television is littered with low-quality, low-morality production, which is causing harm." Politicians were no...
By THOMAS IF THE CONFLICT in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin. The silver medal for boneheaded recklessness would go to Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the bronze medal for rank shortsightedness would go to the Clinton and Bush foreign policy teams. Let's start with us. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, I was among the group - led by George Kennan, the father of...
By DAVID A MITTELL Jr WE DIDN'T NOTICE IT at the time, but the post-Cold War world changed on Oct. 1, 1999, when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used the bombing of a Moscow apartment building on Sept. 9 as a pretext to destroy the semi-independent Chechen Republic accepted by Boris Yeltsin in 1996. This and other bombings around Russia were claimed, but never proven, to be the work of Chechens. Chechnya has been ruled by Russia since the early 19th Century. Through czars,...
By Dmitry Babichin Moscow; Anne Penketh Russians piled flowers outside the gates of the home of Alexander Solzhenitsyn as they mourned the death of Russia's leading anti- Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate who chronicled the Stalin terror. The writer, whose masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, revealed to the world the full horror of the Soviet labour camp network when it was published in the West, died of heart failure on Sunday night. His wife, Natalya, who had accompanied him during his...
By Richard Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin tried on Friday to calm speculation about who will succeed him in 2008, suggesting the top Kremlin job might go to an outsider rather than one of the two fancied contenders. Analysts said Putin's comments reflected Kremlin concerns his authority could be undermined if his succession was perceived as a two-horse race between Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Speaking in...
By Oliver Bullough MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he would name a preferred successor to follow him as Russian president and vowed to ensure a smooth handover of power when he steps down in 2008. Putin, who was himself made acting head of state by then-President Boris Yeltsin to ensure his election, has long rejected suggestions he should change the constitution and stand for a third term. The identity of his successor has become the country's hottest political...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - If contestants on the hit U.S. television show "The Apprentice" were unnerved by Donald Trump's billions, their Russian counterparts have more to worry about, as the host of the Russian version is three times as rich. Vladimir Potanin, a name as well known to Russians as Trump is to Americans, will deliver the punchline "You're fired" to corporate wannabes on "The Candidate," to be shown on Russia's TNT channel, Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday. The winner of...
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday his country bore a moral responsibility for the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, but stopped short of offering an apology that many Czechs have long sought. The invasion ended the pro-democracy movement known as the "Prague Spring" and put the country firmly under Moscow's thumb. "We do not bear any legal responsibility, but the moral responsibility is there," Putin said at a news conference in Prague...
