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• Russia gets misty-eyed about Stalin | Adam LeBor

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Medvedevs condemnation of the gulags was bold – many Russians view Stalin as an icon of communisms old certainties When Russian president Dmitry Medvedev recently condemned the horrors of Joseph Stalins gulags it sounded like a statement of the obvious. "I am convinced that the memory of national tragedies is as ...
  11 hours ago

• Aleksei Dymovsky in YouTube plea for Putin to end police corruption

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  A Russian policeman has triggered a political storm by breaking a code of silence over corruption in the ranks, in videos posted on the internet. Major Aleksei Dymovsky, a senior drugs trafficking investigator, accused corrupt police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people and claimed that it was ...
  1 day ago

• A New World Order

  
  Managing The Dragon — Authority: 112
  When past U.S. presidents have visited China, discussions with their Chinese counterparts have been largely limited to trade and human rights. This time around, when President Barack Obama comes to Beijing, it will be different. Never has the agenda between China and the United States been so broad. The list of items ...
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• The Fall of the Wall

  
  Letters from Glome — Authority: 420
  How lovely and awesomely wonderful is it to be 20 years on this side of the Berlin Wall?  It’s wonderful to live in a world where the Iron Curtain fell.  I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember when Solidarity was rolling through Poland. I remember the Brezhnev dying.  Then Andropov.  Then Chernenko.  ...
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• Russian Cop Canned for Venting on YouTube

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  A Russian police major lost his job after recording two YouTube videos’ worth of complaints about low pay, long hours and being promoted for arresting an innocent man. In one of the clips, the major invites Vladimir Putin himself to buddy up and investigate the problem. The Guardian says the disgruntled cop has ...
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• Russian cop sacked for blog graft exposé

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Major calls on premier Vladimir Putin to clean up police after recounting tales of low pay, long hours and trumped up charges A Russian police officer has been sacked after exposing corruption among his senior colleagues in an audacious homemade video blog posted on YouTube. In a case that has prompted public debate ...
  2 days ago

• Remembering the Berlin Wall: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  On Feb. 13, 1985, I stood in the Theaterplatz in Dresden listening to Erich Honecker give a speech.  The speech was not simply one of those standard commie stemwinders to which those of us reporting from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were accustomed.  For one thing, we were gathered outside the newly ...
  2 days ago

• Ignoring the math: Political folly from the US to SA

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  Whether in Kabul, London, Washington or Pretoria global leaders appear to believe that big mouth is more important than sound math. In South Africa only a small percentage of the populace pay tax, electricity bills or television licences, they are also the best educated and most productive part of the population and ...
  2 days ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 442
  PM Putin stuff: Perm Territory governor Oleg Chirkunov has successful meeting with Putin about making Perm a "cultural capital" (maratguelman, in Russian). Policeman makes Youtube appeal to Putin setting out the tribulations of a policemans life. Whom Pencil Putin?
  2 days ago

• Officer Fired for “Slander” of Police Department

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 490
  A police officer who posted a video directed at Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin outlining abuses within the Novorossiysk police department has been fired for slander, according to Internal Ministry representative Valery Gribakin. The videos, which Major Aleksei Dymovsky posted in two separate parts on ...
  2 days ago

• Russia fires police YouTube whistleblower (Reuters)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 162
  Reuters – A junior Russian policeman was fired on Sunday after making a YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accusing senior officers of corruption, a claim dismissed by authorities as false, news agencies reported. View original post here: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Russia fires police ...
  3 days ago

• To Our Friends in Europe, We Apologize for Our President

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  The America in which I was raised always stood for freedom, and not just freedom for Americans but freedom for suffering people around the World.  When I was an exchange student in Germany in 1983, I found myself in endless debates about this, and about my President Ronald Reagan and his desire to build a ...
  3 days ago

• U.S Russian Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty Could Be Finalized By Year’s End

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  The bilateral talks between Russia and the United States of America seem to be heading in the right direction as the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev stated that, the nuclear arms reduction treaty is a possibility that could be realized as early as by the end of this year. However, he also stressed on the fact that, ...
  3 days ago

• Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions: La Stampa of Italy

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ancient Rome are well-acquainted with the ...
  3 days ago

• Medvedev: Hand-Picking the Next President is “Funny”

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 490
  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has clarified a statement made by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin concerning the future Russian presidential election in 2012. In an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel, Medvedev stated that “He [Putin] said only the following: if at the moment of the next presidential ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• For Russia’s Communists, Ousting Putin Is a Priority

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Leaders of Russia’s largest opposition faction have made it clear that they prefer the current president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, to his predecessor, Vladimir V. Putin.
  3 days ago

• Vladimir Putin hits out at GM’s decision not to sell Opel

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 588
  The consequences of General Motors’ decision to keep Opel/Vauxhall continue to pile up. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized General Motor’s decision not to sell Opel/Vauxhall to Magna International.Putin, speaking through his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, said that GM had already approved the deal and ...
  3 days ago

• Vladurday: By the look on his face

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 613
  By the look on his face, someone will soon be dead. (Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev) Are you planning a funeral? Picture by: N Kolesnikova Caption by: Grimmiekins via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
  4 days ago

• Brave Medvedev hits out at Russians who excuse Stalin

  
  Brussels Blog — Authority: 424
  October 30 saw one of the most important moments so far of Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency in Russia.  On a video blog posted on the presidential website, he squarely addressed the issue of the mass repressions carried out under Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator from the mid-1920s to 1953.  I agree with Tomas Hirst, ...
  5 days ago

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