9 days ago by businessweek

February 02, 2012, 10:26 AM EST By Ilya Arkhipov (Updates with comments from Ashton, Pumpyansky in 14th, 18th paragraphs.) Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is battling to avoid a presidential runoff that may dent his authority as polls suggest Russians will force a second round of ...

14 days ago by PICTURE POLITICS

THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION REJECTS GRIGORY YAVLINSKY'S TWO-MILLION VOTER LIST January 27, 2012 GRIGORY YAVLINSKY IN THE AFTERMATH OF HIS FIRST RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA In 1996, Boris Yeltsin won; Yavlinsky came in fourth. As I wrote (here) in the run-up to the end of Yeltsin's time i ...

46 days ago by PICTURE POLITICS

WHITE HOUSE KREMLIN KREMLIN GOVERNMENT HOUSE GOVERNMENT HOUSE ("THE WHITE HOUSE") MOSCOW (right), AT TWILIGHT The beginnings of some musings re Prime Minister, President, President, Prime Minister, Russia/The USSR: Once upon a time, just a bit over two decades ago now, when there still was a Soviet ...

47 days ago by Michael Neudecker

La bandera roja en el Kremlin. El 26 de diciembre de 1991, hace hoy 20 años, terminó el siglo XX. Todavía quedarían nueve años hasta el 2000, pero ese día de diciembre ocurrió un hecho histórico que supuso el punto y final de uno de los siglos más tumultuosos y sangrientos de la historia. Ese día se ...

64 days ago by Sergio

La questione cosa era prima: l'uovo o la gallina? è ormai obsoleta. Provate pure rispondere un'altra: Ce la fa una mitra di produzione cinese trapassare un giubbotto antiproiettile di produzione cinese? I sentimenti misti è quando sul cofano della tua nuova macchina con un chiodo è graffiato: "Nel s ...

67 days ago by janvierlucas

Era dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino che l’Europa non si trovava in situazioni palesemente tribolate. Per tutti, quello fu un periodo passato alla storia come la fine di un’epoca segnata dalle divisioni territoriali e ideologiche tra due modi diversi … Leggi l'articolo completo →

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135 days ago by Alex

“ ” “ ” rare video video HD . . , , . Boris Yeltsin Eltcin “Liagu Na Relsy” and “Begite Skoree” rare video video HD Russia Moscow 1990-s eltsyn_boris_eltcin_liagu_na_relsy , Yeltsin, Eltcin, Russia, chubais, korzakov, , , perestroika, 1996, russian politics, russian hystory, , , hd, video hd, , , ga ...

147 days ago by jhforest

by Jim Forest On August 19, 1991, two months after Boris Yeltsin’s election as president of Russia, a junta led by KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov made a nearly-successful effort to suppress the democratic movement that had emerged during the Gorbachev years. The junta announced formation of a “State E ...

166 days ago by La Polilla Cubana

Por Patricio Echegaray* En estos días se han cumplido 20 años del llamado “golpe de agosto” en la ex U.R.S.S. El domingo 18 de agosto de 1991, Mijail Gorbachov se encontraba de vacaciones a orillas del Mar Negro. A la madrugada de ese día, le fueron cortadas las comunicaciones telefónicas y le fue a ...