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lunes, mayo 07, 2012
miércoles, abril 04, 2012
The Kremlin Was Warned 20 Years Ago To Not Appoint Putin To Any Government Positions
The Russian government was warned 20 years ago not to appoint Vladimir Putin to "any other positions" because he was accused in a corruption scandal as a public official in St. Petersburg, The Telegraph reports.
Hundreds of scanned letters and papers to this effect were published on Facebook on Tuesday by friends of Marina Salye, a former member of St Petersburg city council who launched an inquiry into Putin's office in the early 1990s, and who died earlier this month at the age of 77.
Salye's documents suggest that Putin, then head of St Petersburg's committee for foreign relations, issued permits to Russian companies export raw materials abroad for meat, fruit, sugar, and other produce, because the city was facing severe food shortages. But although $100 million worth of goods were sent from Russia, no food was delivered in exchange.
Putin has always denied any wrongdoing.
The archive published online includes a letter from Russia's chief state inspector warning that Putin could be removed from his post in St Petersburg because of the alleged corruption, and telling the federal government not to appoint Putin "to any other positions" until the case was examined.
While the city council passed a resolution to sack Putin, St Petersburg’s mayor refused to do so. Instead, he promoted him to be his deputy, and no investigation was carried out. The rest, as they say, is history.
Putin has always denied any wrongdoing.
The archive published online includes a letter from Russia's chief state inspector warning that Putin could be removed from his post in St Petersburg because of the alleged corruption, and telling the federal government not to appoint Putin "to any other positions" until the case was examined.
While the city council passed a resolution to sack Putin, St Petersburg’s mayor refused to do so. Instead, he promoted him to be his deputy, and no investigation was carried out. The rest, as they say, is history.
miércoles, marzo 28, 2012
FROM GBTV: IS OBAMA SELLING OUT AMERICA TO RUSSIA?
Tiffany Gabbay
At worst, Russia has historically been America’s arch nemesis, at best, it has been the country’s ongoing strategic and ideological opponent. Yet, despite millennia of cultural contributions and “fundamentally transforming” since the fall of Communism, many wonder just how “free” a nation Russia really is.
Take into account the staggering number of members of the press who have been killed under the stewardship of past and incoming President Vladimir Putin. To date, the toll falls at over 40. In the words of Observer journalist Peter Preston: ”He [Putin] is elected time and again. Yet a free press seems to mean pitifully little to him. You investigate? You report? You die, unavenged.” More >>
martes, marzo 27, 2012
All the Pravda [Obama-Medvedev affair]
CFP/ Daniel Greenfield
Medvedev, whose bosom buddy just managed to cling to power with a stolen election and brutal suppression of protests, surely understands how O feels. Photo ops with tigers and sunken treasures, not to mention skiing, martial arts and even rap, did not keep the Big P in smooth with the Russian public when the economy headed south.
For a man so in love with the technology of image, the camera, the microphone and the teleprompter, the leader of the increasingly less free world has a natural tendency to put a little too much faith in it. This is the second time that an open microphone has let Obama down, the first time it recorded him stabbing an ally in the back, the second time it recorded him stabbing a few dozen more in the back.
Medvedev, whose bosom buddy just managed to cling to power with a stolen election and brutal suppression of protests, surely understands how O feels. Photo ops with tigers and sunken treasures, not to mention skiing, martial arts and even rap, did not keep the Big P in smooth with the Russian public when the economy headed south.
Vladimir Putin didn’t have any racial guilt to ladle on the voters that might get them to overlook the mansions, the corruption and the abuses of power. But the average American voter, like the Russian voter, is more interested in the meat and potatoes, not to mention the gasoline, than in mystical allusions to the power of history. If Putin at times seemed bent on passing himself off as a new czar and Obama as a new savior, the crown and halo were shattered by the economy.
Putin’s had tightened control over Russia to an extent that the Obamas and the Warrens could only fondly dream of in their fondest federalist fantasies. And it’s easier to steal elections, when you don’t have to kowtow to a bunch of provincial interests and take the complaints of bible and gun owners seriously. But much like Putin and Ahmadinejad, Obama enjoys dim prospects in a straight election. And unlike them, he doesn’t have a military force that will turn up a few million ballots and send the protesters straight to the hospital, if not to the morgue.
Obama likes being a democrat, it’s just the democracy part that he doesn’t much care for
Obama likes being a democrat, it’s just the democracy part that he doesn’t much care for. And while his diplomacy is generally underwhelming, a mutual dislike of elections proved to be a popular bonding topic with Medvedev, the human face of the regime. But if Medvedev really thought that Obama was serious about needing more space because of an election, he hasn’t been paying much attention to American politics.
This is a White House that doesn’t pass laws to curry favor with the general voting population. That’s what publicity stunts and race cards and wars against women are for. In 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where Al Sharpton is an honored guest and policy is outsourced to whoever comes earliest and tosses the foam ball the best, policy isn’t made to soothe the savage electoral beast, it’s done to pay off buddies, soothe furious Muslims and implement whatever idea that a committee of unhinged leftists, Clinton veterans and friends from Chicago think is the way to go.
If Obama is jettisoning Eastern Europe, it’s because he thinks it doesn’t matter. The sage wisdom is that the future is in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. Russia is full of pale men and so is Eastern Europe. A man who thinks that there’s a language known as “Austrian” can’t exactly be expected to tell them apart or to care. Not when there are more exciting places to be, like Beijing of Dubai.
When it comes to Russia, Obama can’t see the point. When the Berlin Wall fell, Obama was busy completing the final leg of his prolonged education and adolescence while minoring in racial careerism. If he was even busy paying attention to people with funny names like Yeltsin or Gorbachev, it was while smoking blunts and laughing at how funny the syllables of their names sounded in his mouth. More >>
lunes, marzo 26, 2012
Is Obama planning to let Russia help re-elect him to his 2nd Term
What specifically was President Obama referring to when he
told Russian President Dmitri Medvedev he would have “more flexibility”
after the November election to deal with controversial issues such as
missile defense?
In remarks caught on mic and later broadcast around the world, Obama
asked Medvedev to tell incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin to give
him more “space,” indicating missile issues can be resolved during a
second term in office.
Obama made the remarks in a bilateral meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul.
Stated Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense,
this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space.”
Medvedev replied: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you. …”
Obama then stated: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”
Last year, Obama committed to reducing stocks of U.S. weapons-grade
plutonium and signed an agreement that will lower the country’s deployed
nuclear arsenals.
Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren, long petitioned for the moves
in a magazine whose personnel were used for the benefit of Soviet
propaganda in an attempt to disarm America, according to a former top
intelligence official during the Soviet era.
The magazine’s founders were accused of providing vital nuclear secrets that helped the Soviets develop an atomic bomb.
The magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been urging
the U.S. to surrender its nuclear arsenal to international control.
In April 2010, the U.S. and Russia signed a deal reducing stocks of
weapons-grade plutonium, officials in both nations said at the time.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov signed a non-binding protocol to a 2000 agreement on
eliminating excess weapons-grade plutonium from defense programs.
U.S. officials have said each country is to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium by burning it in reactors.
One week earlier, Medvedev and Obama signed the Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty, or START, committing them to reducing their deployed
nuclear arsenals.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with Holdren on the board of
directors from 1984 until recently, has long petitioned for the U.S. to
reduce its nuclear stockpiles. According to Pavel Sudoplatov, a former
major-general in Soviet intelligence, this kind of work by the magazine
editors was for the benefit of the Soviet Union.
Holdren is assistant to the president for science and technology,
director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and
co-chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists began publishing regularly in 1945,
when it was founded by former physicists from the Manhattan Project,
which developed the first atomic bomb.
Two of the magazine’s founding sponsors, Leo Szilard and Robert
Oppenheimer, were accused of passing information from the Manhattan
Project to the Soviets. Both were also key initiators of the Manhattan
Project.
In 1994, Sudoplatov, a former major-general in Soviet intelligence,
identified Szilard and Oppenheimer as key sources of crucial atomic
information to the Soviet Union.
“The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic
bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the
American atomic bomb – Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo
Szilard,” wrote Sudoplatov.
Sudoplatov wrote the Soviet Union “received reports on the progress
of the Manhattan Project from Oppenheimer and his friends in oral form,
through comments and asides, and from documents transferred through
clandestine methods with their full knowledge that the information they
were sharing would be passed on.”
Oppenheimer was accused in Senate hearings of bringing communists
into the Manhattan Project. He brought his brother Frank and three
former graduate students into the project, all of whom, according to
Senate hearings, were well known to him to be “members of the Communist
Party or closely associated with activities of the Communist Party.”
Oppenheimer admitted he knew by August 1943 that two of the
scientists working under him were Communist Party members. Three of five
scientists under Oppenheimer’s direct supervision were accused of
leaking secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets.
On Oct. 25, 1945, Oppenheimer met with President Truman at the White
House, urging him to surrender the U.S. nuclear monopoly to
international control. Truman was outraged, reportedly telling Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, “I don’t want to see that son-of-a-b*tch in this
office ever again.” More >>
sábado, marzo 10, 2012
lunes, marzo 05, 2012
domingo, marzo 04, 2012
They get what they want: Putin wins, Communists 2nd
Preliminary results show Vladimir Putin securing 63.18 per cent of votes
in Russia's presidential election, with his closest rival Gennady
Zyuganov taking 17.33 per cent.
So far, the Central Election Commission has counted some 25 per cent of the ballots. Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Mikhail Prokhorov are waging a real political battle for third place, with both winning the support of roughly 7.35 per cent of voters. Sergey Mironov is running fifth, with some 3.67 per cent of votes cast.
So far, the Central Election Commission has counted some 25 per cent of the ballots. Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Mikhail Prokhorov are waging a real political battle for third place, with both winning the support of roughly 7.35 per cent of voters. Sergey Mironov is running fifth, with some 3.67 per cent of votes cast.
jueves, marzo 01, 2012
Could Vladimir Putin be in power until 2024?
Reuters/ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov, tycoon and independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, Nationalist Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and A Just Russia party leader Sergey Mironov will battle for the country's presidency on Sunday.
More than 100 million Russians will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president who will be in office for the next six years. Msnbc.com's Alastair Jamieson examines the potential outcomes -- and what's at stake.
What do the polls suggest will happen?
Most polls indicate it will be an outright victory for Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president who has made a deal with his ally Dmitry Medvedev, the former prime minister and current president. Despite initial public outrage over their job swap, Putin is consistently polling at around 50 per cent – well ahead of the fragmented opposition.
lunes, febrero 27, 2012
Putin soap opera: Plot to kill PM Vladimir Putin foiled
MOSCOW
-- Russian and Ukrainian security services have foiled a plan to
assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia's state
television reported Monday.
Pro-government Channel One said that
the suspects were plotting to kill Putin in Moscow immediately after the
March 4 presidential election, in which he is all but certain to
reclaim the presidency.
The report, which did not quote any named security officials, said
Ukrainian special services had detained two people in the Ukrainian
Black Sea port of Odessa after an explosion at a rented apartment in
which one person was killed.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the report to the ITAR-Tass news agency, but refused to make any further comment.
More >>
domingo, febrero 19, 2012
Motorists protest against Putin on Moscow's streets
A car drives with a flag showing a portrait
of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a car rally to show
support for Putin's presidential candidacy in Moscow on Saturday.
Hundreds
of Russians protesting against Vladimir Putin drove through Moscow
Sunday ahead of the March 4 presidential election expected to seal his
grip on power.
Cars adorned with white ribbons and balloons, which have become the
symbol of the largest protest movement against Putin's 12-year rule,
moved bumper-to-bumper through the city, competing with a rally of his
supporters hours earlier.
"There are a lot of people who do not agree with the current
authorities," said Dmitry, 29, standing next to a red car tied with
white ribbons. "We've come out to show ... that we don't agree (with the
situation) and want other people to know how many of us there are."
The anti-Putin rallies began after a disputed election in December handed his United Russia party a slim parliamentary majority.
Putin was president from 2000-2008 when he was barred by the
constitution from running for a third successive term but has remained
in charge as Russia's prime minister. His re-election could see him stay
in power until 2024.
A rally of his supporters Saturday night saw motorists with pictures
of Putin and Russian flags stream along Moscow's main ring road. Police
said there were 2,000 participants.
Putin's supporters say he led the country out of chaos after the
collapse of the Soviet Union and oversaw a rise in living standards
during the oil-fuelled boom of his presidency. More >>
sábado, febrero 04, 2012
"Real Russian patriots should stay at home and make babies... not loiter at demonstrations"
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask takes part in a demonstration for fair elections in central Moscow Saturday.
Updated at 5:05 a.m. ET: Tens of
thousands of people are now in downtown Moscow, The Associated Press
reports, despite temperatures of minus 4 Fahrenheit. Banners and
placards read "Russia Without Putin!" and "For Free Elections."
The AP says the rally appears to be bigger than one in December that
organizers claimed attracted 120,000 people, which was the biggest
demonstration in Russia since the protests 20 years ago that helped
bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"So many of us have come that they can't arrest all of us," protester Alexander Zelensky, 56, tells the news service.
Original post: Thousands of people marched
in Russian capital Moscow Saturday in a pro-democracy protest over the
power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
BBC News said people were taking part in the "For Honest Elections" rally despite expected temperatures as low as minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit.
"The main thing is for people not to catch pneumonia ... Three hours
in the cold is a serious thing," Boris Nemtsov, a liberal politician and
protest organizer, told the BBC.
"I have the feeling that every degree colder it gets, we lose 5,000 people," he added, according to Reuters.
The broadcaster said Kaluzhskaya Square was filling up with people
midday Saturday. Many carried white balloons, the color adopted by the
movement.
Russia Today reported
that organizers were expecting about 50,000 people to take part in the
event, which it summed up with the headline "Frozen fury."
It said there were due to be rallies at Bolotnaya Square and Pushkinskaya Square.
Demand for election re-run
Russia Today also said supporters of the pro-government
Patriots of Russia movement were gathering on Poklonnaya Hill Saturday
to "protest against the so-called Orange moods in the country and show
people we have a lot to lose."
The color orange was used in neighboring Ukraine during anti-government political protests in 2004 and 2005.
Russia Today reported Putin had voiced his support for them. "The
people heading to Poklonnaya Hill are going there to state their sincere
anti-Orange position. I am grateful to them and I share their views,"
he told Interfax news agency.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin had some different advice.
"Real Russian patriots should stay at home and make babies... not
loiter at demonstrations," he was quoted as saying by state RIA news
agency.
martes, diciembre 27, 2011
Architect of Putin's System of Politics Is Reassigned
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| Vladislav Surkov [L] and Putin |
MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Tuesday announced the reassignment of Vladislav Y. Surkov, the "gray cardinal" who has overseen Russia's domestic political scene for more than a decade. The reassignment, made in the midst of a new protest movement against Vladimir V. Putin, Russia's paramount leader, suggested that Mr. Putin is prepared to make changes in the tightly controlled system that emerged during his first and second presidential terms.
Mr. Surkov, the deputy head of the president's administration, is considered the architect of the system under Mr. Putin and his protégé and successor as president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, which Mr. Surkov christened "sovereign democracy." He will now oversee modernization and innovation as a deputy prime minister, but will take no role in domestic politics. Russia's political system has come under unprecedented pressure this month from protesters who complain that elections offer them no alternative to Mr. Putin's rigid model. Former finance minister Aleksei L. Kudrin, who this month presented himself as a potential leader for disgruntled liberals, said the move affecting Mr. Surkov suggests "political reforms are going to continue."
"I consider him one of the designers of the system," Mr. Kudrin said in an interview with Kommersant-FM. "Now, the system is being reconsidered. Other organizers are needed, with other views on the political system."
Mr. Surkov, an advertising prodigy who was brought into government toward the end of the Yeltsin era, has argued for years that centralizing power in the Kremlin was a matter of survival after the 1990s. He acknowledged last year that "centralization has reached the limits of its capacity," but attempts to cultivate new parties were often discontinued if they showed signs of slipping out of Kremlin control.
Asked by a journalist on Tuesday why he was leaving, Mr. Surkov responded: "Stabilization devours its young." He went on to say that he had requested a reassignment. Asked whether he would take a role in settling down the protests, Mr. Surkov said no.
"I am too odious for this brave new world," he said, in a short interview with the Interfax news service. He then summed up his achievements at the reporter's request.
"I was among the people who helped President Yeltsin realize a peaceful transfer of power," he said. "I was among those who helped President Putin stabilize the political system. I was among those who helped President Medvedev liberalize it." More >>
sábado, diciembre 24, 2011
50,000 Strong: Massive 'vote fraud' rally in Moscow
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Dec 24, 2011
Tens of thousands gathered in central Moscow to protest against this month's Parliamentary election results. The mass rally was organized by opposition groups who claim the vote was rigged. 30 thousand people are reported to have turned up to demonstrate according to official data, but the opposition say the number is more than a hundred thousand. It's the second such protest - two weeks ago tens of thousands took to the streets to have their say. RT's Anissa Naouai reports from the scene of the demonstration.
Huge rally increases pressure on Putin
msnbc.com news services/
MOSCOW — Tens of thousands demonstrators rallied in the Russian capital Saturday in another massive protest against election fraud, signaling a growing outrage with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule.
The demonstration in Moscow was as large as the one two weeks — the largest show of discontent the nation has seen since the 1991 Soviet collapse — although rallies in other cities in the far east and Siberia earlier Saturday drew much smaller crowds.
Rally participants gathered on a broad avenue some 1.5 miles from the Kremlin on a snowy day.
A stage at one side of the avenue featured placards reading "Russia Will be Free" and "This Election is a Farce".
Recent protests in Moscow and other cities have dented Putin's authority as he seeks to reclaim the presidency in next March's vote. The Kremlin has responded by promising a set of political reforms that would liberalize election rules.
jueves, diciembre 22, 2011
martes, diciembre 20, 2011
The Putin System - Documentary
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The Putin System is a documentary chronicling Putin’s rise to power in Russia along with the implications for ordinary Russian people.Russia is once again flexing its muscles. This time its weapons are not the Red Army or its nuclear arsenal, but the huge energy resources lying under the Siberian tundra.
Vladimir Putin is the man responsible for the reemergence of Russia as a global power, but how much is really known about him and his ascendance? This film explores his journey to the highest echelons of the Kremlin and contextualizes his rise against a newly belligerent Russia nostalgic for the past glories of the Soviet empire.
This investigative documentary covers 30 years in the history of Russia through the personal history of Vladimir Putin: a man who has single-mindedly played all the rules of the game to reach the throne of power.
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