VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
When Vladimir Putin stepped down as president of Russia last May, he left little to chance. Just as his predecessor Boris Yeltsin had anointed him, Putin made sure that his loyal protégé of 20 years, Dmitry Medvedev, would take his place. Putin took the helm of the country's dominant political party, United Russia, and then, as prime minister, expanded that position far beyond what the Constitution envisions. Although Putin rearranged the musical chairs, he continued to call the tune. Until now.
Whispers of a split between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his handpicked successor, President Dmitri Medvedev, have grown louder over the past few weeks. The economic crisis is putting pressure on the ruling duo to show they're on top of things. It may also be exacerbating their differences.
The global meltdown is threatening U.S. orchestras, which rely on corporate and individual giving to survive, said Russian conductor Valery Gergiev. Gergiev -- artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre (the former Kirov) in St. Petersburg -- is also principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He is on a two-week, coast-to-coast LSO tour of the U.S. (sponsored, except for the New York leg, by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Japan's biggest drugmaker).
Priekšvēlēšanu cīņa par iespēju saimniekot Melnās jūras kūrortpilsētā Sočos varētu izvērsties daudz interesantāka nekā pagājušogad notikušās Krievijas prezidenta vēlēšanas, kuru iznākums bija skaidrs jau labu laiku iepriekš. Vairāki pazīstami Krievijas politiķi izteikuši vēlmi piedalīties Soču mēra vēlēšanās, kas notiks 26.aprīlī. Pretendentu vidū ir opozīcijas kustības Solidaritāte līderis Boriss Ņemcovs, krievu miljardieris Aleksandrs Ļebedevs, kā arī bēdīgi slavenais Andrejs Lugovojs, kurš Lielbritānijā tiek turēts aizdomās par aģenta Aleksandra Ļitviņenko noindēšanu.
Leave it to Russia's Vladimir Putin to do the unexpected. The wily former KGB officer who resigned to head Russia's domestic intelligence and counter-espionage service (the FSB) before becoming president, specializes in puzzling western critics.
The candidates may have barely announced that they are entering the contest, or drafted their manifestos, yet the victor of the race to be next mayor of Sochi is already pretty much in the bag.
Spot the split is the current favourite game in Russia as Kremlin-watchers look for evidence of division between President Medvedev and his mentor Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister.
To those of us who live and work in Hollywood, movies are always the perfect gift. So we're puzzled to read about the controversy that erupted when President Barack Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a collection of classic movie DVDs.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, on Thursday announced that Moscow would go easy on Ukraine in enforcing the terms of their bilateral gas deal, in a surprise sign of improving relations between Moscow and Kiev.
L'opposition manifeste timidement, les associations dénoncent une régression des Droits de l'homme et des libertés...
Le dégel des relations américano-russes a beau être dans l'air depuis que la secrétaire d'Etat américaine Hillary Clinton a offert à son homologue russe Sergueï Lavrov un jouet de plastique orné d'une touche «Relance», en Russie, les sentiments antiaméricains ont encore de beaux jours devant eux.
L'opposition radicale à Vladimir Poutine peine décidément à mobiliser. L'hétéroclite coalition L'Autre Russie avait appelé jeudi à une nouvelle manifestation pour réclamer la démission du premier ministre et la liberté de protester dans plusieurs villes russes. À Moscou, le rendez-vous donné aux militants dans une station de métro s'est soldé par une débandade. Le mouvement n'avait pas jugé utile cette fois de demander l'autorisation de manifester, prétextant les refus quasi systématiques essuyés par le passé. Pour parer à d'éventuels désordres, pas moins de quatre mille policiers étaient mobilisés dans le centre de la capitale, selon l'agence Interfax.
No 'Put in' jibes allowed? Then we'll pull out! A Georgian pop group said Wednesday it would bow out of the Eurovision Song Contest, refusing to scrap lyrics punning on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's name.
En parcourant les dépêches des agences de presse du 6 mars 2009, un titre épatant vole la vedette aux autres : « Gorbatchev vilipende Poutine » ! Quoi ? Serait-ce un persiflage de notre intelligence, une fumisterie de journaux sans ragots pour remplir leur page ou site internet ? Mais non ! Pour de vrai, Gorby, gueule de bois sec d'un occident en crise et en quête de diversion, défraie burlesquement la chronique sur l'ère Poutine accusé de reprendre les pires horreurs du soviétisme, au grand secours et plaisir des fringales de médias sans substance pour nourrir la désinformation interne en Occident. Alors, le vieux Gorbatchev, véritable insecte moribond jusqu'à date, comme un zombi, comme un revenant, et, par la faculté de certaines coquerelles saprophytes à la reviviscence, renaît en force parmi les miettes idéologiques antirusses de l'occident qu'il a tant aidé à détruire son propre pays sous prétexte de réforme. Car la réforme était indéniablement indispensable en Union Soviétique oscillant alors entre une gérontocratie bureaucratique et un stalinisme anachronique. Toutefois, réformer un État se fait dans la réflexion interne, la concertation avec les acteurs de l'intérieur et en usant des moyens réels dans les structures et cela en prenant tout le temps qu'il faut.
Talk of a Medvedev-Putin rift is no longer only talk, as the economic crisis already pulls the two further apart regardless of their intentions, but any rumor of the conflict producing an open split is highly premature, writes Robert M Cutler for ISN Security Watch.
Shortly before he was sent to a Siberian prison in 2005, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky seemed willing to take on the mantle of a martyr for political freedom in Russia. With his business empire destroyed and his vast fortune gone, he nevertheless vowed to continue his fight against Vladimir V. Putin, then Russia's president, from his prison cell.
"God preserve us from the Russian Uprising, senseless and merciless." The line from poet Alexander Pushkin was quoted to me often by Russians in the dark days of the early 1990s when the Motherland had fallen from grace, communism was collapsing and millions were pitched into unemployment and poverty. Romantic souls, bleary-eyed, would tell me how Russians were born to suffer: to suffer the piercing winter frosts of a vast land, the predations of war and invasion, the shortages, the harshness of their masters. The Russian would suffer patiently, silently; that is, until he could take no more.
The wrong man is in the dock at the second trial of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It should be President Dmitry Medvedev. His crime? Failing to break the vengeful grip of his mentor Vladimir Putin, on a case that has become a symbol of political abuse and corruption in Russia.
Vladimir Putin's regime is fighting for its political life. That's the good news. But the bad news is that the Obama administration is sending out mixed messages that may help the Russian autocratic regime survive.
Pirmdien apritēja apaļš gads, kopš Krievijas prezidenta amatā tika ievēlēts iepriekšējā prezidenta Vladimira Putina izvirzītais un atbalstītais Dmitrijs Medvedevs. Medvedevam sākās iesildīšanās laiks - formāli līdz inaugurācijas ceremonijai maija sākumā. Taču šķiet, ka tas nebeigsies līdz pat nākamajām Krievijas prezidenta vēlēšanām.
