From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/11/2007 2:20 AM Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Russia: At 90, Bolshevik Revolution Shows Its Age By Claire Bigg Russia - A Russian woman holding a huge portrait of Lenin during the traditional commu
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posted by zaina19 on November, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/11/2007 2:20 AM Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Russia: At 90, Bolshevik Revolution Shows Its Age By Claire Bigg Russia - A Russian woman holding a huge portrait of Lenin during the traditional communist demonstration in downtown of Moscow, 07Nov2007 A Russian woman holding a portrait of Lenin during the traditional communist demonstration in downtown Moscow today (epa) November 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- For the best part of the 20th century, Russians celebrated the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on November 7 by watching grandiose annual parades crossing through Moscow's Red Square. Ninety years after Vladimir Lenin led Bolsheviks to the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Russians this year were once again able to tune their televisions to a Red Square parade. This time, however, the underlying ideology was entirely different. Today's event commemorated not the Bolshevik Revolution itself, but a World War II parade marking the Bolshevik Revolution. The procession was called by Josef Stalin in 1941 as an act of defiance against Nazi German troops, who had advanced ... >> full
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Spinning The Kremlin: Russia's New Agitprop
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/11/2007 2:24 AM Monday, November 5, 2007 Spinning The Kremlin: Russia's New Agitprop By Brian Whitmore Russia – A Muscovite watches a televised question-and-answer call-in session with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, 18Oct2007 A Moscow man watches the televised question-and-answer program with President Putin on October 18 (AFP) November 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Vladimir Putin loves to play the tough guy -- especially when he's on television. And during a recent nationally televised chat with carefully vetted ordinary citizens, the Russian president got his chance. An engineer from Novosibirsk claimed that former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had once said Siberia's vast natural resources were too important to the world for Russia to "unfairly control" on its own. What, the engineer, wondered, did the president think about that? Putin professed to be surprised by the query. But his answer, when it came, seemed far from spontaneous. "Such ideas are a sort of political erotica," the president said coolly. "Perhaps they give somebody pleasure, but they are ... >> full
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BORIS KAGARLITSKY, MOSCOW COLONEL’S DREAM
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/11/2007 6:58 AM BORIS KAGARLITSKY, MOSCOW COLONEL’S DREAM The Colonel had a dream. He wasn’t even a colonel yet when a Dream appeared in his life. Back then it was hardly the Dream – it was rather an uncertain sensation growing stronger day by day. The Colonel’s first aspirations might seem inconsistent. He sought peaceful life, simple solutions, predictability. He needed no drama in his life and bewared of running ventures or untying tangled knots. He escaped the feeling of walking a tightrope – the young man was more inclined to routine bureaucratic career. But he felt something was missing in that flat routine job. He longed for something full-fledged. And here comes what might seem inconsistent – when determining his future career the young man chose secret service. There is nothing less predictable, safe and routine to be thought of than a life of a secret agent, ... >> full
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BORIS KAGARLITSKY, MOSCOW THE PROBLEM OF 2008
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/11/2007 7:06 AM BORIS KAGARLITSKY, MOSCOW THE PROBLEM OF 2008 There is a version that a signal to alleged murder of Edward the Second, King of England, was a written message from Bishop Adam Orleton “Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est”. The trick with the message was that depending on logical syntax the king either should or should not be killed. The plotters would read it as “Edwardum occidere nolite timere, bonum est” (Fear not to kill the king, it is good he die). But should the plot be revealed, Bishop Orleton would insist that what he had meant was “Edwardum occidere nolite, timere bonum est” (Kill not the king, it is good to fear the worst). A brilliant example of ambiguity! Today the presidential administration seems to be mastering the medieval art of double meaning. The 2008 presidential election poses for the Kremlin a problem with an ... >> full
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The Moscow Times: 'Putin never leave'
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rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/12/2007 5:00 AM The Moscow Times: 'Putin never leave' Publication time: 7 November 2007, 16:45 On the day of the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution political analyst, the presenter in Echo of Moscow radio station Yevgeny Kiselyov published an article in The Moscow Times newspaper, in which he claims that the existing regime "has adopted many of the Bolsheviks' traits." He observes the succession of the current Kremlin in relation to the Communist Party, formally ousted from power squad. "Had the Communist Party remained in power, we would have seen 7 November 2007 day grandiose ceremonies with military parades and mass demonstrations like we saw during the 50th, 60th and 70th anniversaries of the "Great October Revolution". But the Communists fell from power long ago, and the Nov. 7 anniversary is no longer an official government holiday." "The paradox is that the Bolsheviks, in a sense, haven't gone anywhere. They remain in power even today. And if we believe the apocryphal version of ... >> full
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