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A History of 20th-Century Russia, Warts and All
Moscow :: Russia | about 5 hours ago
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Retailing at the rough equivalent of $20 a volume and titled “History of Russia. XX Century,” the books try to rise above ideologically charged clashes over Russia’s historical memory. They are critical both of czarist and Communist Russia, and incorporate...
Tags: Russian Orthodox Church, United Russia, russians orthodox, Mr. Zubov, Poland, Stalin, Russia, Moscow, Zubov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Heads of government of the Soviet Union, Marxist theorists, German Russians
Medvedev orders jail death probe
Moscow :: Russia | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Sergei Magnitsky, 37, who was being held on suspicion of conspiracy, died last week from what investigators said was acute heart failure. It has since emerged he had repeatedly complained that prison authorities had refused to allow him medical care.
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Russian, Sergei Magnitsky, medvedev orders, human rights, heart failure, investment fund, Russia, Moscow, Medvedev, Law Crime, Gazprom, Hermitage Capital Management, Politics, Social Issues, Politics of Russia, William Felix Browder, Hermitage, Funds, Volga-Dnepr, Rosneft, Kremlin, Earl Russell Browder, Yukos, Yury Chaika, Russia ￢ﾀﾓ South Ossetia relations, Criticism of Vladimir Putin, Antonov An-124, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Drunk police accused of beating man to death
Moscow :: Russia | about 17 hours ago
Credibility Russian media has reported the officers were involved in a fight with two men in Moscow on Monday night. One of the men died, and the officers, who were reportedly drunk, were detained soon after...The trio, along with a supervising officer, have been...
Tags: Russian, Moscow, Russia, Second Chechen War, Ingushetia, Law Crime, Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War, Kabardino-Balkaria, Georgia￢ﾀﾓRussia crisis, Interfax, War Conflict, Human rights in Russia, politics, Ingush people, North Caucasus Insurgency, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Caucasian Front, Chegem, Caucasus, Vladimir Putin, Beslan school hostage crisis, Chechnya, Nazran, Council of Europe, Russian media, Thomas Hammarberg, Islam in Russia, Nalchik, Natalya Estemirova
For Russian Media, A Cry for Help and Freedom
Moscow :: Russia | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Dmitry Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta, described the horrific deaths of his reporters. He was invited to speak by the Helsinki Commission on the erosion of independent media in the Russian Federation. After the communist totalitarian regime fell in...
Tags: Russian Federation, independent media, Dmitry Muratov, Grigory Shvedov, U.S. Helsinki Commission, Maxim Trudolyubov, Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Shchekochikhin, human rights, russians journalists, Russia, Moscow, Beslan school hostage crisis, Anastasia Baburova, Stanislav Markelov, Vladimir Putin, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Novaya Gazeta
The magazine rack
Moscow :: Russia | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Convene, the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. On the demand side, the convention and travel business is down, like nearly every sector, and businesses are wary of jumping back in full force until they see a longer economic...
Tags: Russia, Moscow, Vladimir Putin, Ben Bernanke, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Professional Convention Management Association, Jeffrey R. Immelt, Sergey Brin, Business Finance, Hospitality Recreation
Data Show a Decline for Tigers in Russia
Moscow :: Russia | 1 day ago
Credibility Amid the torrent of bad environmental news in recent years, the story of Amur tigers in Russia offered a flicker of optimism. Nearly extinct half a century ago, the tigers rebounded when the government imposed protections, and their numbers remained more...
Tags: Russian, Russia Far East, WWF Russia, amur tigers, tigers populations, Amur, Mr. Putin, Russia, Moscow, Siberian tiger, Ussuri, Vladimir Putin, Poaching, Amur Leopard, Tigers, Conservation reliant species, National symbols of India, Environment
Russian Leader Expresses Support for Nonprofits
Moscow :: Russia | 1 day ago
Credibility Medvedev called Monday for tax incentives and other measures to assist Russia ’s beleaguered nonprofit groups, which have come under government pressure in recent years. Mr. Medvedev, promoting policies that he hopes will modernize the country, said...
Tags: nonprofit groups, Mr. Medvedev, Russia, Moscow, Non-profit organization, Charitable organization, Politics of Russia, Putinism, Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom, Vladimir Putin, Politics
EU-Ukraine summit to mark new chapter in bilateral relations
Kiev :: Ukraine | 1 day ago
Credibility The EU aims to give Ukraine a stern warning about financial and political reform at an upcoming summit, as the two sides head into a new, post-romantic chapter in bilateral relations. In an anecdote told by one EU official, a close ally of Ukrainian president...
Tags: Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, ukrainians president, Vladimir Putin, Kiev, Politics of Russia, Yulia Tymoshenko, Gazprom, Energy in Russia, Energy policy, Komsomol, Orange Revolution, Presidents of Ukraine, Politics of Ukraine, Hairstyles, Crimea, Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, Politics, Beekeepers, Ukrainian language, Eastern Europe, Education, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Yushchenko, Economy of Ukraine, Outline of Ukraine, Business Finance, International Monetary Fund, International development
Way back when: Today in history
South Bend :: IN :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Patton Jr. apologized for slapping a shell-shocked GI in a military hospital near the end of the Sicilian campaign...Charles Herman Kuhl, 24, of South Bend, Ind., after Patton asked Kuhl why he was in the hospital and Kuhl replied: "It's my nerves...The...
Tags: Charles Herman Kuhl, George S. Patton Jr., Vladimir Putin, South Bend, Patton, Charles Kuhl, Alexander Litvinenko, George S. Patton, Religion Belief
Russian carmaking plan under discussion as Avtovaz noise gets louder
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 1 day ago
Credibility But the sector will still need $22 billion in investment – while import duties on foreign-made cars will have to rise to at least 40%. VTB Analyst Elena Sakhnova says the decision now facing the government stems from past policy failures. “Either you...
Tags: United Russia party, Russian, Burkina Faso, Lon, Russia, Politics, Politics of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Business Finance, Dmitry Medvedev, Medvedev, Putinism, Ella Pamfilova, State Duma, Koni, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Boris Gryzlov, Vremya, Law Crime, AvtoVAZ, Gazprom, Car manufacturers, Beslan school hostage crisis, Business cycle, Social Issues, Automotive industry, Renault, RIA Novosti, Recessions, Lada, United Russia
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