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The Other Russia: Medvedev Cites ‘Stagnation’ In Russian Politics

posted by eagle on November, 2010 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Medvedev Cites ‘Stagnation’ in Russian Politics

November 25th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under

On the eve of a meeting with political party leaders and a week before his annual speech to the upper house of parliament, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has posted an entry on his video blog admitting that political life in Russia is showing signs of "stagnation.”

At the same time, the president insisted that many measures had been taken during his time in office to increase political competition. As the title of his blog entry puts it: "Our democracy is not perfect, we understand this very well. But we’re moving forward.” Opposition leaders strongly disagree.

As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports:

In an unusually pointed criticism of the political status quo, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the dominance of the country’s ruling United Russia party and the lack of political competition is leading the country toward "stagnation.”
"It is no secret that since a certain time our political life has been showing symptoms of stagnation, and there is a ...

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Window On Eurasia: Russia Is Heading Not Toward Stagnation But Toward Collapse, Moscow Columnist Warns

posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Window on Eurasia: Russia is Heading Not Toward Stagnation but Toward Collapse, Moscow Columnist Warns

Paul Goble

Staunton, November 27 – President Dmitry Medvedev’s suggestion that Russia is at risk of a new period of stagnation has been taken by most analysts as a warning, but one Moscow commentator suggests that Medvedev is not only wrong but behind the times. Russia, she says, is facing "not stagnation” but rather developments pointing toward "the collapse of the state.”
In a commentary posted on Gazeta.ru, Natalya Gevorkian asks "And just where is this stagnation?” Are the exposures of criminal structures and their links to the militia in Kushchevskaya evidence of that? Is the arrogance of the Nashi group? Or are the revelations on YouTube by disaffected militiamen? (www.gazeta.ru/column/gevorkyan/3446817.shtml).
No, she argues, these and many other things "are not stagnation. They are signs of the disintegration of the state.” Or more precisely, she suggests, these things represent a kind of a cry of despair "about the degradation of state ...

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TOL: A Crack in the Caucasus Wall

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

A Crack in the Caucasus Wall

Georgia taps its soft power in the North Caucasus to the detriment of Moscow and muted optimism of the locals.

by Valery Dzutsev 17 November 2010

An infuriated Moscow condemned as "propagandist” and "provocative” the Georgian government’s move last month to ease entry restrictions for Russian citizens from seven North Caucasian republics bordering or near Georgia.

"The aim is to simplify contacts between the bandit underground in the North Caucasus with the Georgian bandit underground and Georgian official policy,” Alexander Torshin, deputy head of Russia’s upper house of parliament, told the Interfax news agency on 13 October, the day the new rules came into force.

Georgian authorities cited mostly humanitarian and commercial reasons for the snap decision to allow most Russian citizens living near the border to enter Georgia for up to 90 days without a visa. The relaxed regime has not been extended to residents of the Krasnodar region, which borders the breakaway Abkhazia ...

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BSR Russia: Western views of Russia take a turn to reality

posted by circassiankama on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Western views of Russia take a turn to reality

Written by Patrick Armstrong on Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:24 | Published in Opinion

President Medvedev and Prime Minuster Putin: consistently misinterpreted by the west

by Patrick Armstrong

The hypothesis of this essay is that the conventional Western view of post-Communist Russia has passed through two cycles and is entering a third. While the first two were grounded mostly on what observers wished to see, the third is shaping up to be based more on reality.

Little Brother

As Tom Graham wisely observed some years ago: while no one will take seriously a country with a declining GDP, no one can ignore one whose GDP is rising. When the USSR fell apart in 1991, its extraordinarily centralised economy, whose links were now were blocked by new national borders, choked and died. Living standards sank, inflation exploded, the tax base collapsed, ...

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Eurasia Review: U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance

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U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance

Thursday, 25 November 2010 09:21

Written by Rick Rozoff

This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

President Dmitry Medvedev participated in the NATO-Russia Council meeting during the second day of the summit in Lisbon, Portugal on November 20 with the heads of state of NATO's 28 member states.

The national leaders signed a Joint Review of 21st Century Common Security Challenges, agreed on resuming joint - NATO and Russian - theater missile defense cooperation and "reconfirmed a shared determination to assist in the stabilisation of Afghanistan and the whole region." [1]

That is, Russia's Medvedev endorsed NATO's agenda without adding anything of substance to it and ...

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