russia politics

The people who let Putin get away with persecuting Navalny Like Trump, Putin is all about the money. But unlike Trump, Putin isn't an incompetent boob. He gets away with this because the West is more than willing to do business with him.

In a surprise move, the Duma has proposed a mechanism to re-set Vlad's presidency to zero, allowing him another 16 years at the top, if he wants it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/vladimir-putin-amendment-power-russia-2024 Putin has reluctantly decided he will have a go, if the...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51719764 And a lot of other things, including making Belief in God official government doctrine....with the Orthodox Churn being a official state religion in everything but name. Also love the outlawing of anything negative about Russia In World War 2, ie...

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/europe/russian-government-resigns-vladimir-putin-reforms-intl/index.html Well that's... a thing.

Should the monarchy be reinstated in Russia now that the USSR has fallen? Other questions: Was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and subsequent annihilation of his family by the Bolsheviks justified? Or did the Romanovs only have themselves to blame? If the monarchy comes back, who...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/putin-approves-change-to-law-decriminalising-domestic-violence Russia is a terrible country to live in but a great country to die in. Unfortunately all the terrible things that happen there have a tendency to seep out and pollute neighboring...

What are the chances of that happening?

Here's Glenn Beck introducing the man named Aleksandr Dugin: 5KuRmiXjAgg I knew already that the picture of "the RASputin behind Putin" is completely bogus and his influence is vastly exaggerated by crackpots like Beck (if you think a man like Lavrov cares one bit about Dugin, you don't know...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

Perhaps he's gone to lead his troops Ukraine? http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/putin-has-vanished-but-rumors-are-poppin-up-everywhere-746508

Inspired by the ISIS thread, I thought this article summarized Putin's ambitions and methods pretty well, putting the Ukraine in the context of larger efforts to undo the post cold war settlement...

...being in league with liberal feminists I suppose Putin is factually correct here: Russian Central Bank is not in fact run by liberal feminists in thrall to the IMF. But it is rather amusing to see him being attacked by people even more xenophobic than he is. Russian far-right cranks seem to...

he even has a palace it seems http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17730959

fN5mlTmaCws My boyfriend is in trouble once again: Got in a fight, got drunk on something nasty I've had enough and I chased him away And now I want a man like Putin One like Putin, full of strength One like Putin, who won't be a drunk One like Putin, who wouldn't hurt me One like...

I don't know too much about the incident so I won't go into much detail about it. It would seem as though wealthy Russian citizens are "peacefully" protesting against the currently governmental system and calling for more transparency. Russia has suffered from voter issues for years, but in the...

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Stealing from the are there any Cuban's thread, I kind of want to know if there are any Russian's on this board and if so I was kind of looking for your opinion about your country. I hear alot in the media... and lately it hasn't been good. Am I hearing the whole story or what. It seems to me...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15045816 Am i the only one bothered by these pathetic 'elections'? Everything affiliated with politics is fake in Russia.

Say what you like about him, at least he does stuff: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/vladimir-putin-action-man/100147/

Putin seems to be taking a page out of Kim Il-Sung's playbook: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5972503/Hunting-shooting-and-fishing-with-Vladimir-Putin-Russias-man-of-action.html What does his likely return to the Presidency in 2012 (meaning that come 2020 he will...

If I'd read this Wikipedia article yesterday, it would have made me laugh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Russian_Federation Negotiations started in 1970 with the Soviet Union, and neither party has ever shown signs of being willing to compromise, so the announcement...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100130/ts_nm/us_russia_rally an impressive show of strength in a semi-authoritarian society.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8383960.stm

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/19/russia.lawyer.killed/index.html Is this really news any more?

Does anybody have any further information?

Is Alexander Lukashenko really the "last dictator of Europe" and if he is what makes Lukashenko a dictator? Is it because he doesn"t respect freedom of speech?

The Duma has approved the proposals put to them by President Dmitry Medvedev which propose extending the Russian presidential term from four to six years. The changes still need to be voted on by the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, and by regional legislatures, but given the...

Or at least a separatist region/country that Georgia regards as part of it. This was in response to a Georgian offensive a few hours earlier. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/08/georgia.russia2 I wonder how the situation will play out. Given that Georgia has quite close ties with both...

Here I sit at my computer watching election coverage in a country I never expected to visit when I was young. As a former cold warrior, I still find it funny that I am here at all. Here is what I observed in the city that I am in: Nothing. I did not go out looking either. But I am living in an...

Dmitry Medvedev, the next President of Russia, has rugged good looks. His wife, the next First Lady of the Russian Republic, ain't a slouch, either. (Dimitry image) http://english.pravda.ru/img/idb/medvedev2-1.jpg (Svetlana image) http://www.rbth.rg.ru/img/b/10124.jpg...