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Gerard Depardieu, Vladimir Putin The actor is currently in Moscow prepping a film set in the capital. Newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu has compared President Vladimir Putin to a Pope. Depardieu, whom Putin presented with a Russian
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There is quite a cult that has grown up around Russia's Spetsnaz special forces, with books, movies and exposes both serious and farcical alike...Indeed, some could almost be considered franchises: as far back as the 1990s, veterans of the Alpha
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French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a leader. Depardieu is preparing to shoot a new film in
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Serbian and Russian Presidents Tomislav Nikoli and Vladimir Putin will sign an agreement on strategic partnership in Sochi on May 24. Tomislav Nikoli and Vladimir Putin (Tanjug, file) Daily Veernje novosti has learned that the strategic partnership
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Although each scenario is different, they all have features incommon. Below is alist ofthe commonalities that form apicture ofwhat awaits Russia over thenext decade. Thefirst ina series ofpossible junctures emerged with thepresidential election last
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Late on Friday I posted about the horrific rape, torture, burning, and murder of a gay man in the southern city of Volgograd, Russia by two men who killed him after learning he was gay. The men have been arrested but the act has inspired fears of
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Athletes are due to pour into Russia in their droves over the next five years, with next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2018 football World Cup the two biggest draws. "Participants in international sporting competitions can enter and exit
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An apparent homophobic killing has increased concerns among Russian activists about prejudice against gays, which they fear will be encouraged by a bill banning homosexual "propaganda". The body of a 23-year-old man was found in the courtyard of an
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With Aleksei Navalny on trial and other opposition leaders under threat, Vladimir Putin is relying more on the stick than the carrot to shore up his regime. Kirill Rogov points out the risks of this policy. Putin's course since the crisis of
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What has been happening since Vladimir Putin's third coming to the Kremlin is indeed new for post-Soviet Russia. However, it is not so much a new political direction but a correction, albeit a significant one, of Kremlin's previous attempt to build
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