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Fictional Russian hopefuls in 2012 elections
Russia’s presidential elections on 4 March are creeping ever closer. Following demonstrations across Russia in the wake of parliamentary elections in December, the run-away favourite Vladimir Putin is now more of a walk-away favourite. Who else is in this one-horse race?
vladimir putin, literature, corruption, elections, moscow, politics, russian federation
'What if?': students re-imagine 2011's big events
Protests, eurocrisis and elections: it's all too easy to assume the events we read about in the news are inevitable. Yet so often they are instead the result of chance encounters, spontaneous decisions and personal feelings. We asked four European students to re-imagine the big events of 2011
vladimir putin, protest, angela merkel, london, 'indignant citizens' movement, united kingdom, society
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?
vladimir putin, techno-media, internet, twitter, facebook, elections, dmitry medvedev
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
vladimir putin, euweek, press review, elections, dmitry medvedev, politics, 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
vladimir putin, josé luis rodríguez zapatero, angela merkel, wikileaks, julian assange, news, recep tayyip erdogan
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
Eurovision 2009: kitsch but politically correct
Watching the best party that a flagging Europe is supposed to provide reminds me more of watching the antics at an elderly relative’s birthday party. Extravaganza, my eye. The only aspect that continues to emerge like a beast year in, year out is its political censorship from Spain to Russia
vladimir putin, eurovision, eurovision song contest, songs, opinion, israel, music
Videos: EU’s powerful but arrogant leaders
The relationship between EU leaders and the cameras is often an unstable one. It is a way of gaining huge popularity. But it can also bring out the worst side in the leaders - or, to put it simply, display the arrogance of those in power
vladimir putin, european elections 2009, eudebate2009, media, silvio berlusconi, power, videopolitics
Putin did not pull a Sarkozy love story
On 21 April, ‘Moskovsky Korrespondent’ apologised after reporting that Putin was to marry athlete Alina Kabaeva, 24. A look back at a story he termed as ‘snotty noses and erotic fantasies’
vladimir putin, uzbekistan, men and women, love, moscow, world affairs, video gallery
Videos: Putin, Sarkozy, Blair and Schröder
Putin pouts, schnip schnap Schröder, Blair sings and Sarkozy and opposition leader Ségolène snuggle
vladimir putin, germany, gerhard schröder, music, downing street, united kingdom, tony blair
Putin: a (filmic) kiss for Valentine’s Day
Two weeks before his handpicked successor takes over, a Russian film released on DVD on 14 February shows a rather different side to a fictional, unnamed outgoing Russian president
vladimir putin, cinema, non-eu countries, love, moscow, world affairs, post-soviet states
Don't laugh. It's (video) politics
European politicans occasionally star in dramatically hilarious or simply grotesque scenes - are ETA terrorists a great nation? Was the Russian Breznev actually the president of the United States?
vladimir putin, ukraine, america, western africa, southern eu, spain, terrorism
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
vladimir putin, culture, moscou, society, post-soviet states, dmitry medvedev, politics
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
vladimir putin, elections, europe, dmitry medvedev, politics, russian federation
Energy - new Russian missile?
As it plays an increasingly larger role in the relationship between Russia and its neighbours, is energy supply a way of seeing who is in control of the region?
vladimir putin, estonia, georgia, european union, eu frontiers, tallinn, central and eastern europe
