The Personal Qualities of Power
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/20/2005 1:32 AM The Personal Qualities of Power Wednesday, April 20, 2005 By Yulia Latynina Once a upon a time, there was a governor named Dmitry Ayatskov. This governor had his own jet, boat, helicopter and personal zoo. The city of Saratov, where he reigned, did not have a zoo, but Ayatskov did. This zoo was right next to his lovely palace, which was built with funds from the regional budget and handed over to Ayatskov's common-law wife, Olga Sergeyeva. We would never have heard this fairy tale if Ayatskov had not had a falling out with a former buddy, Vyacheslav Volodin. Volodin had managed to become the deputy head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma and was on very good terms with Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov. And lo and behold, someone else was appointed governor in Saratov, and prosecutors opened a criminal case against his wife, who is accused of privatizing her palace illegally. It must be said that Dmitry Ayatskov ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/26/2005 4:55 AM 25.04.2005 The feel-bad factor Here is a film that will not be showing at your local cinemas this week. Indeed its very title — The 3 Rooms of Melancholia — might have been deliberately constructed so as to minimise its commercial appeal. Then there is its subject matter: the child victims of the Chechen war. And its provenance: Finland. Not to mention that it is shot in excruciatingly long takes with virtually no dialogue. The music is not too catchy either. Not one for that restless Saturday night, then. But it is an extraordinary work. I would garland it with more superlatives, just so that some courageous independent distributor could plunder a few fruity adjectives to use in a promotional poster; but frankly it is near pointless. I would commend it in the highest possible terms to all my readers, but the truth is you don’t have much chance of getting to see it at all. The film is split into ... >> full
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Editorial: Dealing With Russia
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/28/2005 1:39 AM Editorial: Dealing With Russia 26 April 2005 RUSSIA’S President Vladimir Putin pulled few punches in his state of the nation address to Parliament yesterday. He said the collapse of the old Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the last century. He strongly defended his political changes which have refocused power in the Kremlin and warned outsiders bluntly that Russia would advance to democracy at its own pace and would take no lessons from abroad. In Washington this may very well be seen as a deliberate snub to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice whose Moscow visit last week emphasized the need for Russia to do more to promote democracy. Putin left few of his listeners in much doubt that Russia was taking no advice from any other country — whether it was over his assault on powerful private companies such as Yukos, the muzzling of the press and media, the continuing bloody anti-separatist campaign in Chechnya or the changes ... >> full
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Putin Speech Signals Beginning of the End
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/28/2005 4:58 AM </NOINDEX>Photo: Kommersant.ru Photo: Kommersant.ru Putin Speech Signals Beginning of the End Created: 26.04.2005 19:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 19:01 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1114527668)); </SCRIPT> MosNews As President <NOBR>Vladimir Putin</NOBR> was finishing his curt state of the nation address before parliament on Monday, besides the loud applause from deputies over what appeared to be a reaffirmed course towards democracy and pro-business reforms, observers picked up on a signal of uncertainly, heralding an end of the Putin regime as it has been styled to this day. In his sixth speech since becoming president in 2000, Putin did something which he failed to do last year: specifically address the concerns of the West and of Russian experts both from the right and the left that Russia was increasingly spiraling away from a democratic course and towards capitalist authoritarianism. “In the former addresses there were no clear answers as to how the country’s political system was to develop,” presidential aide Igor Shuvalov told the liberal Nezavisimaya Gazeta following ... >> full
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A Meeting in the Daryal Gorge
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/30/2005 10:10 AM April, 29, 2005 A Meeting in the Daryal Gorge Pay attention to the articles about Zelimhan, if you can look through Russian newspapers of the beginning of the last century. There are a lot of them. The well-known abrek from the Chechen Republic excited minds and hearts of the inhabitants. And there was a reason for that! Right before the eyes of the amazed public he plundered a bank in Kizlyar full of armies expecting for him and disappeared. After a while he kidnapped the known rich man Mesyatsev, in Vladikavkaz he took contents of a jeweler shop in the central street and disappeared in mountains again. Then he changed clothes for a priest's, went to the ball of an outstanding official of the Terskiy region and found out everything, he wanted. There are even more articles about Zelimhan's capture. And all of them are under large headings: "The last hours of the abrek", "Zelimhan in a trap", "The end of ... >> full
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