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Christian Science Monitor: Putin Faces Green Olympic Challenge

posted by eagle on April, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Putin faces green Olympic challenge

The Sochi 2014 Winter Games are threatened by a looming international boycott, environmental concerns, and public protests against local development.

By Fred Weir, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
posted July 11, 2008 at 12:00 am EDT

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia —

Here, amid the breathtaking mountain vistas of Europe's last slice of untouched alpine wilderness, the state gas monopoly Gazprom has nearly completed a huge new ultramodern ski base. Nearby, other big Russian corporations have been hastily building roads, hotels, Olympic sports facilities, and a press center to meet the Kremlin's timetable for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

Winning the bid for Sochi against stiff international competition a year ago was one of Vladimir Putin's crowning achievements as Russian president. But supervising the increasingly troubled preparations for the Games may be one of his biggest challenges as he settles into his new role as prime minister.

"Putin has made the Olympics his most important principle, and I'm sure he will never back down, whatever the problems," says Boris ...

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KC: Expert: Russia Has No Future

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Expert: Russia has no future

Publication time: 8 April 2010, 12:08

Putin became a Russian president ten years ago. A bloody "Putin's era" began. The Editor-in-Chief of the Lithuanian magazine IQ.The Economist and a political scientist Vladimiras Laucius, does not see any positive results in policies pursued by Putin, and now by Medvedev and their clique, the Baltic news agency "Delfi" writes.

It was under Putin, and not in the 1990's, that an oligarchic system emerged in Russia, the main result of which became a further disintegration of public consciousness in Russian citizens.

In an interview with the Baltic news agency, the political scientist specifies:

"Speaking about the political transformation of Russia after 1991, we are to remember that the system developed in Russia before Putin's rise to power, was called oligarchic. Berezovsky, Potanin, Gusinsky and other representatives of big business have been labeled "oligarchs". In fact, it was not the oligarchic system then, it appeared only under Putin.

With Putin's coming to Kremlin, the power vertical strengthened and only then ...

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Window On Eurasia: Kyrgyz Events Points To ‘High Level Of Instability’ Across Post-Soviet Space, Senior Muslim Leader In Russia Says

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FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Kyrgyz Events Points to ‘High Level of Instability’ across Post-Soviet Space, Senior Muslim Leader in Russia Says

Paul Goble

Vienna, April 9 – "The events in Kyrgyzstan have become yet another piece of evidence of the high level of instability” across the former Soviet space, according to one of Russia’s most thoughtful Muslim leaders. And his observation has been echoed by other analysts who are now debating in just which country a similar set of events might take place next.
In a comment on the Islamrf.ru portal yesterday, Damir-khazrat Mukhetdinov, the deputy chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) of European Russia, focuses on the specific features of Kyrgyz social and political life but suggests that the triggers for the uprising are to be found in circumstances that afflict most of the states in the region.
"The world economic crisis,” he begins, "objectively fulfills the role of a winnower of the undergrowth of a forest, hitting particular hard the weak regimes” whose populations ...

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Window On Eurasia: Orthodox Christians In The Baltics Could Transform The Orthodoxy of the Moscow Patriarchate, Russian Religious Specialist Says

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FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Orthodox Christians in the Baltics Could Transform the Orthodoxy of the Moscow Patriarchate, Russian Religious Specialist Says

Paul Goble

Vienna, April 9 – Orthodox Christians in the Baltic countries, despite their small numbers, a Russian religious specialist says, may play a role in the transformation of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate analogous to the one that religious immigrants to the United States from Europe played in the transformation of Roman Catholicism.
And that possibility, part of a broader movement that religious specialists refer to as "alternative Orthodoxy, suggests that Patriarch Kirill’s drive to build a power vertical in his church is certain to be far less successful than he and his Kremlin backers claim now that the so-called "émigré” church has restored communion with the Patriarchate.
At the end of March, Blagovest-info.ru reported this week, a group of some of Russia’s most distinguished specialists on religious life participated in a seminar on "The Orthodox Church in the Social-Political Life of ...

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Window On Eurasia: Putin Fails To Speak The Truth About Katyn, Moscow Analyst Says

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FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Putin Fails to Speak the Truth about Katyn, Moscow Analyst Says

Paul Goble

Vienna, April 9 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has received enormous and largely uncritical international praise for taking part in the commemoration of the Katyn tragedy and for allowing Andrzej Wajda’s film about the Soviet execution of 22,000 Polish officers there in 1940 to be shown on Russian television.
But a careful reading of his remarks, Boris Sokolov suggests in an essay posted on Grani.ru today, shows that Putin not only was unprepared to acknowledge many aspects of that horrific act but openly lied about it to bring pressure on Poland to stop raising the issue either bilaterally or internationally (grani.ru/opinion/sokolov/m.176846.html).
In his speech, the Grani.ru commentator notes, Putin spoke about "the joint path to making sense of national memory and historical wounds” as being a means to allowing Russians and Poles to "avoid the dead-end of a lack of understanding and eternal settling of scores, the primitive division ...

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