Vladimir Putin painted a colourful picture of Russia‘s protesters on Thursday, describing them as agents of the west, attending useless demonstrations with condoms pinned to their chests as they sought the downfall of the motherland. In his first comments on the unrest which broke out in Russia following the disputed parliamentary election, the prime minister [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 12, 2011
Mobile phone footage shows fake ballots
Mobile phone footage shows extra ballots at polling stations being added to the parliamentary election count. As the president, Dmitry Medvedev, and the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, move to calm the growing tension, Moscow residents give their view. Protesters have promised to gather again in two weeks’ time if the Kremlin refuses to annul the [...]
December 12, 2011
Nets’ Mikhail Prokhorov to run for Russian presidency
MOSCOW — After a week of surprising challenges to his authority, Vladimir Putin faces a new one from one of Russia’s richest and most glamorous figures — the billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets says he will run against Putin in March’s presidential election. Mikhail Prokhorov’s announcement Monday came just hours after another Russian [...]
December 12, 2011
Russian ex-finance minister says may establish new political party
It is an ideal time for establishing a new Russian right-wing party as the country’s “political landscape” is changing, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in an interview with Vedomosti business daily published on Monday. New Russian party to be established In the first interview after his scandalous dismissal, Kudrin, who fell out with [...]
December 9, 2011
Putin names his presidential campaign chief
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has picked filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin to run his campaign in next year’s presidential elections. Speaking to supporters on Thursday, Putin said he wants to use an amorphous group he launched in May, the All-Russia People’s Front, as the basis of his campaign. “I would like to create my [presidential campaign [...]
December 8, 2011
December 6, 2011
Putin’s United Russia party loses 77 seats in parliamentary election
Russia’s ruling United Russia party has lost 77 seats in the Duma, the lower house, according to preliminary results. President Dmitry Medvedev and prime minister Vladimir Putin give their reactions, while on the streets of Moscow, many people say they were not surprised United Russia was still the biggest party
December 5, 2011
‘United Russia united enemies’
By having so much power and TV coverage, being the party of the president and prime minister, the United Russia party in a way united their enemies – that is how journalist Ivan Zasursky explains the lower score for the party in Sunday’s vote. There has been speculation on what caused the ruling party to [...]
December 2, 2011
Dzhioyeva supporters to seek parliament resignation
Supporters of former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia said they would collect signatures to seek parliament’s resignation, a former defense minister said on Friday. Preliminary results showed that opposition leader Dzhioyeva, also former education minister, won the November 27 runoff in South Ossetia. But the republic’s Supreme Court on Tuesday canceled [...]
December 1, 2011
Russian president approves 3-year budget
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved on Thursday the 2012-2014 budget drawn up by former finance minister Alexei Kudrin. The budget deficit is set at 1.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2012, 1.6 percent of GDP in 2013 and 0.7 percent of GDP in 2014. The document is based on the price of Urals oil [...]
December 1, 2011
U.S. fighter takes swipe at Russian healthcare
“The hallways were full of wandering patients that looked like they were just out of a civil war battle,” is how Jeff Monson, a U.S. heavyweight fighter, describes his experience at a hospital in Moscow in an unflattering blog post about the Russian capital’s health system. Monson was forced to seek medical treatment after he [...]
November 27, 2011
Birthday greetings for Tymoshenko
Ukrainian stars have joined together to brighten up November 27 for their ex-prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. An improvised concert is being held at the walls of the Lukyanivsky detention center in Kiev where Tymoshenko is marking her 51st birthday in a “serious health condition”. Ukraine’s Batkivshchina political party, previously headed by Tymoshenko, was responsible for [...]
November 27, 2011
Putin bangs fists for his party, gets presidential nomination
At a pompous event at Moscow’s Luzhniki Arena on Sunday, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party officially named its leader Vladimir Putin, Russia’s powerful prime minister, as its candidate for the March 2012 presidential elections. All 614 delegates from United Russia and Putin’s All-Russia People’s Front movement who took part in the vote during a party [...]
November 25, 2011
Main news of November 25
WORLD *Britain will stop sharing military information with Russia over Moscow’s decision to freeze compliance with the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a government minister said *Egypt’s ruling military council said in a statement it appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri the country’s new prime minister and charged him with forming a cabinet *The Patriarch [...]