Like Mother, Like Father: Dads Seek Legal Security By Yelena Gorelova Vedomosti Published: November 23, 2011 (Issue # 1684) MOSCOW — Father of three Alexei Ostayev is trying to prove that he was fired from his job in circumstances that should be protected under the country’s labor laws. Ostayev is the only breadwinner for his stay-at-home wife and their children. The children are young — [...]
Tag: Media
November 23, 2011
November 17, 2011
Putin and his Russia don’t deserve the bad rap…
Putin and his Russia don’t deserve the bad rap.In the right light, we see Russia and Putin have taken some undue heat. Here’s a look at some of the most serious accusations leveled at Putin and his Russia. One of the rare good articles that came out of the Western Media. In fact as the [...]
October 28, 2011
More Disney for Russians
Walt Disney is buying a 49% stake in Russian free-to-air television channel Seven TV – the biggest ever investment into the country’s media market. Seven TV will be rebranded as The Disney Channel, perhaps as soon as the end of the year. The new family-oriented channel will reach 75% of Russian viewers – about 40 million [...]
October 27, 2011
Putin Blasts Global Media Over Qaddafi Coverage
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has voiced his “disgust” at the global media for its graphic coverage of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s death. Russian news agencies quoted Putin as telling an election campaign meeting that “there is nothing good” in all world channels showing Qaddafi’s gruesome end. He also said, “People within the [journalistic] [...]
October 19, 2011
Joy to the World: Reports the Western Media and Government on Libya…
Keith Harmon Snow, a war correspondent and independent investigator, believes that killing Gaddafi would be an illegal targeted assassination and that there is obviously a hidden agenda behind Hilary Clinton’s apparently spontaneous visit… “There is a lot of fighting in Libya at present and almost everything we’ve been told, everything we’ve seen, is false. We [...]
October 19, 2011
Time to talk about Iran and that alledged Plot of Death…
Mainstream Media If anything was to be considered phony then the alleged Iran plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up both the Saudi and Israeli embassies has to be the icing on phony mainstream media cake. But that does not stop the warmongers and drum beaters from using it, for [...]
October 13, 2011
Russian Tabloids Are Thriving In Changing Media Environment
MOSCOW — Brawling oligarchs and lethal football hooliganism are high on the agenda as journalists for the mass-circulation tabloid “Komsomolskaya pravda” gather for their daily editorial meeting. Beneath an imposing portrait of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decked out in dark sunglasses, reporters and editors discuss the day’s top story: a televised brawl between tycoon Aleksandr [...]
October 12, 2011
As Russian Bloggers Gain Prominence, The Kremlin Takes Notice
MOSCOW — Armed with an iPhone and sporting his trademark dark blonde afro, Ilya Varlamov surveys the handicapped section of a parking lot near the headquarters of Moscow’s traffic police. Gone are the gleaming Mercedes-Benzes of the past. In their places are more modest vehicles with badges in their windshields identifying the drivers as disabled. [...]
September 19, 2011
‘Smart-city approach will help Moscow out’
As world experts gathered in Moscow to talk about ways to improve the city’s image through social media, RT discussed the issue with one of the panel’s participants, Adam Greenfield, founder and managing director at Urbanscale. Social Media Week, which arrived in Moscow for the first time, is being held at the Strelka Institute. The [...]
September 16, 2011
LUKoil to team up with Statoil to bid for oil fields in Norway
Russia’s largest private oil firm LUKoil will bid for a license to develop hydrocarbon deposits in Norway together with Norway’s Statoil, LUKoil head Vagit Alekperov told reporters on Friday. “Norway holds tenders regularly and Statoil participates in them. I hope we can participate in the tenders together,” Alekperov said. LUKoil and Statoil may also cooperate [...]
June 30, 2011
Putin drops possible election hint
Vladimir Putin gave a cryptic hint as to his possible participation in the 2012 presidential polls on Thursday, saying that he would need to “wash” himself after the elections. “I shall go and have a wash, in the hygienic sense of the word, but also in the political sense,” Putin said at a regional conference [...]
June 30, 2011
Video Catches Medvedev in Driving Gaffe
Memo to President Dmitry Medvedev: Next time you plunge into a crowd, don’t forget to park your car first. Medvedev took his “Go, Russia!” motto a bit too far in an incident captured on video, stepping from the driver’s seat of an SUV and then frantically trying to hold the vehicle back as it kept moving toward a group of people waiting to greet him. Burly bodyguards swiftly came [...]
June 30, 2011
Russia Forces Belarus to Pay Power Bill
Cars driving past electricity pylons in Minsk on Wednesday. Inter RAO says it halted power supplies at midnight. Russia cut electricity supplies to Belarus on Wednesday and forced the country, which faces one of the worst economic crises of President Alexander Lukashenko’s 17-year rule, to pay millions of dollars of overdue power bills. Belarus, struggling [...]
June 30, 2011
Expat Airline Executives Out on Street
Avianova CEO Andrew Pyne, pictured in August, says the eviction is illegal and couldn’t have been authorized by shareholders without his knowledge. The CEO and other senior expatriate executives of Avianova, the country’s fourth-largest airline, said Wednesday that they have been evicted from their offices in an apparent coup. But the executives said they would not walk away from Avianova, a joint venture between [...]