The Russian PM holds his annual QA session with Russian voters, following street protests over his rule and alleged election fraud Link to this video Vladimir Putin dismissed the thousands of protesters who have massed against his rule as agents of the west in his first response to the growing discontent during a marathon phone-in [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
The Putin Show And The Kremlin Shuffle
The Power Vertical Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists after a televised questions and answers session in Moscow on December 15. December 15, 2011 The great post-election shuffle continues. Where it will end nobody knows. Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Naryshkin resigned today to take a seat in the State Duma, where he is [...]
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
Mikhail Prokhorov stands for Russian president
The industrial tycoon and owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team has announced he will run as an independent in the 2012 Russian presidential elections, though there is scepticism that the whole scenario is being stage-managed by the Kremlin to channel dissent away from Putin
December 12, 2011
Moscow government to lay groundwork for new financial center
President Medvedev has ordered the government to get to work on turning Moscow into a global financial center. The main aim of the program is to make the Russian financial market more accessible to foreign institutions – first off, by cutting red tape. For example, foreign companies will not need to have their documents fully [...]
December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
Russian billionaire challenges Putin for Kremlin
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced on Monday that he would challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the upcoming presidential elections next March. In order to register, Prokhorov needs either to be nominated by any of the existing seven registered political parties or needs to collect 2 million signatures in support of his bid. The billionaire [...]
December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
Prokhorov … for president … of Russia?
Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia’s richest tycoons and the owner of the Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election. Prokhorov, whose wealth the Forbes magazine has estimated at $18 billion, has been cautious not to cross Putin’s path in the past. But the tycoon’s [...]
December 12, 2011
December 11, 2011
Russian election protests in Moscow
Thousands take to the streets of the Russian capital to protest against the highly disputed parliamentary elections and Vladimir Putin’s attempt to become president once more
December 11, 2011
A Just Russia nominates pro-Kremlin Mironov for president
The center-left A Just Russia party decided to nominate its leader Sergei Mironov as a candidate for the presidency, the party’s Duma faction leader Nikolay Levichev said on Saturday. “We will fight for access to the second round [of the presidential elections] and we hope to win in the second round,” Levichev said. The second [...]