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Tag Archives: Putin
How you gonna do me like that?
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/video-of-putin-rejecting-priests-kiss-goes-viral/463286.html Article excerpts: – After shaking hands with Moscow region Governor Sergei Shoigu and other society board members, a priest grabs Putin’s hand and bends at the knees to plant a kiss on the back of the head of state’s … Continue reading
The Big Pussy Riot Post
News on Friday that the three jailed members of Pussy Riot had been handed a 2-year prison sentence for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity” (“хулиганство, совершенное по мотивам религиозной ненависти и вражды“) provoked immediate reactions on the streets … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Music
Tagged Cops, Правительство, Сява, Femen, PussyRiot, Putin, Religion, Ukraine
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This past weekend Moscow saw a string of protests organized in opposition to Vladimir Putin’s re-inauguration as President of the Russian Federation. After grassroots demonstrations that had waxed and waned dating back to the parliamentary elections in December, the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Lost in Translation, News / Novosti
Tagged Cops, Москва, Правительство, EkhoMoskvy, Medvedev, Putin
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Meet: Ksenia Sobchak
I had long-delayed writing a post about Ksenia Sobchak, Russia’s bizarro “It girl” who is compared to Paris Hilton in every article written about her by the Western media, but when Artemy Troitsky said this month on Ekho Moskvy that … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, History
Tagged AnatolySobchak, KseniaSobchak, Oblomov, Parfenov, Prokhorov, Putin, Saakashvili, Samsonov, Yakemenko
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Putin, Russia, & the West
As a counter-point to the soft-focus ARD documentary that was posted here earlier this month, here is a four-part BBC series examining closely Putin’s policies and politics dating back to his appointment as prime minister in 1999. This is a … Continue reading
From Ataturk to Mussolini
With dissidents too disillusioned (or weary) to build on the momentum they gained in the protests of December and February, the election of Vladimir Putin as the returning President of Russia seems to be less a moment for action than … Continue reading
ARD Mediathek: Ich, Putin
Fuer’s zweites Mal haben wir eine super Sendung von ARD ueber Rusland. Diesmal geht es um Putin. Mein erster Eindruck: ich wusste nicht, dass er so gut Deutsch kann. Und noch dazu ein Interview mit dem Filmautor Hubert Seipel: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/0,1518,817232,00.html … Continue reading
The Source of Putin’s Power
This video is absurd. Viewer discretion is advised: (Referred by MH)
Putin thinks he’s treated like tubgirl
(referral from MH) In a verbal sparring match with Alexei Venediktov, editor-in-chief of nominally independent Ekho Moskvy, a.k.a. this guy: Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin maintained that he is a champion of free speech and allows the semi-independent radio station … Continue reading