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United Hush-ia: will Russians elect another doomed Duma?
On 4 December Russians will elect a new parliament. Whilst ruling party United Russia has been in power for over a decade, it looks set to reduce its majority in the lower house, or State Duma. The centrist party’s success will doubtless foreshadow Vladimir Putin’s comeback as president in a ‘job swap’ with Dmitry Medvedev at elections in March 2012. Behind the scenes of this circus, the chorus is beginning to grow edgy. Whilst over 60% of United Russia supporters are female and its popularity is growing amongst young people and across a strengthened Eurasian region, more and more journalists, activists and students are speaking out, especially across social networks. Even the purported star of the show Putin has lost favour, receiving his first ever catcalls. Has the bread and circuses act fallen through? (Image: © Kristof)
- Read the special edition United Hush-ia: will Russians elect another doomed Duma?
- Boo-tin: Russian prime minister Vladimir catcalled in public
- Why I like Putin for president: young Russians speak
- Cyril Tuschi’s ‘Khodorkovsky’: 'I’m not so frightened - I’ll be flying to Moscow premiere'
- Strategy 31: Russians protest for right to demonstrate
- Reforms and Russians: mapping young people’s stalled futures
- Dear granddad, for Christmas I'd like a Eurasian union
Elections 2012: glimpses of social network Putin-bashing
On 7 October, the 59th birthday of Vladimir Putin, one pro-kremlin activist composed a couplet with a nod to a soviet-era poem, ending with the words ‘thanks for this Putin’. The rhyme provoked a deluge of tweeted criticism levelled at the Russian prime minister. Could this be the beginning of a protest wave?
dmitry medvedev, techno-media, facebook, twitter, internet, elections, vladimir putin
Swiss, Spanish, German and Czech media on role-swapping Putin and Medvedev
The Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announced his candidacy for the presidential elections in March. The current Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev would take his job in parliamentary elections on 4 December... get it? This swap would cement Russia's reputation as an authoritarian state and bring the country to a political standstill, cry the EU media
dmitry medvedev, euweek, press review, elections, politics, vladimir putin, russian federation
WikiLeaks: Europe’s ruling class according to Washington
The whistleblowing site has turned the skin of international politics inside-out so people can see its capillaries, arteries and cartilages. This bloody network - 250, 000 documents have been taken from the American state department - includes natural portrayals of many European leaders. From the complex and absolutist Sarkozy to Berlusconi’s hangovers, a review of Europe through Uncle Sam’s eyes
dmitry medvedev, josé luis rodríguez zapatero, angela merkel, wikileaks, julian assange, nicolas sarkozy, silvio berlusconi
Slovakian actresses and North Caucasus terror in Moscow bomb attack
35 people died and more than 150 were wounded in a bomb attack on Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on 24 January. If its proved that the suicide attacker was of North-Caucasian origin, it demonstrates once again Russia's inability to defuse the powder keg in the North Caucasus, say the Slovakian, Spanish, Polish and German press
dmitry medvedev, euweek, terror attacks, terrorism, moscou, politics, russian federation
Beyond bare necessities of EU-Russia summit
On 7 December a bear is coming to Brussels. This bear has come to speak to ‘THE 27’ face to face. This bear has been through some hard times: she lost an empire in a few months, she jumped into capitalism without any life floats where for several years she’s been dozing in its steppes, only to regain her pride with a strong leader. This bear is large and sensitive, although her main weapon is her secret: is president Medvedev the boss of her former boss or just another puppet? What about the North Caucasus and other frozen conflicts? Whither leads the flirtation with totalitarianism? From the univerisities of Ukraine and a Chechen exile to a good dose of Russian culture, we windscreen wipe the reality window of one of the most mysterious countries in the world
- Read the special edition Beyond bare necessities of EU-Russia summit
- Achmed Sakajew: ‘Chechnya is the only place in Europe devoid of law’
- The parallel (and enigmatic) life of Russian cinema
- December Belarus elections: protests as absurd as the president
- Conversation with Leo Tolstoy on centenary of his death
- The Gulag Archipelago now compulsory reading for 16-year-old Russians
- Roland Lipp on Moscow, the dirtiest city in Europe
- Ukrainian students fight uncertain future
Young Poles react: Lech Kaczynski death, 'second Katyn tragedy'
In the same place where the Polish elite was executed 70 years ago, a new Polish elite dies in a horrid aircrash, that leaves Poles at home and abroad in a state of shock. Young Poles across Europe help demystify the tragedy
dmitry medvedev, youth, katyń, poland, warsaw, lech kaczynski, jaroslaw kaczynski
Temuri Iakobashvili: 'Russia loves Georgia; they just don’t love the Georgian state'
Obama in Russia, G8, ‘military exercises’ - the post-August war scene looks set to reach 100 political degrees celsius. The vice prime minister of Georgia, 42, on his young political generation, family and mutual love
dmitry medvedev, georgia, michail saakaschwili , russian federation
War: Russia shows who is boss after bombs on Georgia
On 12 August, the Russian president announced an 'end to military operations' against Georgia, which the latter claimed continued. The Kremlin's intervention shows who wears the geopolitical trousers in the Caucasus region, which comprises breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia
dmitry medvedev, georgia, tbilisi, european elections 2009, eudebate2009, war, mikheil saakashvili
UK, Russia: a new Iron curtain?
Two out of three British Council offices were deemed 'illegal' and closed down in Russia in January. A reflection on ties between the Kremlin and London
dmitry medvedev, photogallery, moscow, internet, nationalism, education system, london
Putin, prime minister in 2008?
On 26 October, the EU-Russia summit in Mafra, Portugal could reveal the Tsar's energy policy or Kremlin successor ambitions. Poet and art critic Dmitry Golinko provides a Russian reaction
dmitry medvedev, culture, moscou, society, post-soviet states, politics, vladimir putin
The Kremlin surprise package
In March 2008 Russia's presidential elections will be held. Although no single one seems capable of taking the lead, candidates are appearing at the pace of mushroom growth
dmitry medvedev, europe, elections, politics, vladimir putin, russian federation
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