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Теперь правительство в кармане)))
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Илья Яшин - Почему надо идти на митинг 10 марта
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Лига избирателей http://www.facebook.com/ligaizbirateley What Can I Do? http://www.facebook.com/WCIDRU
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Газета.Ru - 10% сверху
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«Лига избирателей» не признала итоги президентских выборов легитимными и подсчитала, что реальный результат Владимира Путина - 53%, а не 63,6%, как утверждает ЦИК. Организация наблюдателей, которая была образована после протестов в декабре, пришла к выводу, что нарушения на выборах были «широкомасшт...
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BBC Russian - Россия - Правозащитники возмущены словами Клинтон о выборах в РФ
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Российские правозащитники сочли оскорбительными слова госсекретаря США Хиллари Клинтон, которая назвала Владимира Путина "очевидным победителем президентских выборов" в России.
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Посольство США в Москве начало выдавать туристические визы россиянам
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Обама обязал госдепартамент и министерство внутренней безопасности США упростить процесс выдачи виз и ускорить обработку запросов на выдачу неиммиграционных виз. Приоритетными странами в этом отношении для США являются Китай, Бразилия и Индия.
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Russian Activists Win Local Office
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A coalition of independent and opposition activists in Moscow won 71 seats on the capital's district legislative councils, a modest step toward gaining power from the ground up.
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Political uncertainly hits Russian shares - FT.com
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Vladimir Putin’s re-election may have been a foregone conclusion but political uncertainty over what he will do now contributed to a sharp fall in Russian shares on Tuesday. Russia’s RTS index lost 4.4 per cent after police in Moscow arrested
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Protests following the 2011 Russian elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The protests following the 2011 Russian elections began as a response to the 2011 Russian legislative election process, which many Russian and foreign journalists, political activists and members of the public considered to be flawed,[9] and the protests continued after the Central Election Commissi...
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Сергей Колесников: Путин навсегда
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Хотелось бы ошибиться в реальности силового пути, но представить, что Путин выберет путь в тюрьму, не получается
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Россия в 1912 году, в цифрах и картинках - История - Малина MIX
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Россия в 1912 году, в цифрах и картинках
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Video of Anti-Putin Protests in Russia
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Thousands rallied in Moscow's Pushkin Square on Monday to condemn the election of Vladimir V. Putin as illegitimate, before the riot police made hundreds of arrests.
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Russia: U.S. Ambassador’s Fake Twitter Account Wreaks Havoc During Sunday’s Vote · Global Voices
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A fake Twitter account of the US Ambassador to Russia briefly disrupts US-Russia relations during the March 4 Russian Presidential Election. Donna Welles reports.
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Russia now is no better than under the Communists
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Express Comment :: Russia now is no better than under the Communists - Breaking news, sport, showbiz, pictures and video from the Daily and Sunday Express newspapers - updated 24/7
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Мы знаем, как выбрали президента...
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Хлев наш выбрал не зазря...
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One Russian Teenager's Disillusionment
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"Putin's Kiss," a critical documentary about the Russian pro-government youth organization Nashi, is told through the story of teenage leader Masha Drokova.
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Russia's Opposition Coalition Falters at the Outset
MOSCOW, February 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Opposition parties in Russia have announced plans to form a grand "coalition" of several liberal forces. The process was initiated by the leaders of the unregistered Party of National Freedom (PARNAS), the former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the former first deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and Vladimir Ryzhkov, the former leader of the "Our Home is Russia" party.
Kasyanov and Nemtsov said that negotiations on forming a coalition will take place after the presidential election. The current phase of discussions have been declared as "consultative". Mikhail Kasyanov described the likely outcome as a "broad coalition of liberal Democrats in one megaparty".
Russian financial paper Kommersant yesterday predicted who is likely to enter into the new party: Grigory Yavlinsky's party Yabloko, ex-world chess champion Gary Kasparov's "Solidarity" movement and the remnant of the disbanded Union of Right Forces. The supporters of Alexei Kudrin, Mikhail Prokhorov and Alexei Navalny are also enrolled.
Nemtsov yesterday predicted that the party might be able to command 30% of votes in the next parliamentary elections. However, according to the independent research organization Levada Center, the share of Russians who want to see Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to leave office is just 6%.
Equally problematic for the opposition, the composition of politically disgruntled Russians is extremely divided. The majority of opposition support lies with the left, which is itself divided between support for Gennady Zyuganov, and others who have decided to boycott the elections.
The idea that these disparate forces can be united into one political coalition is being seen in some quarters as more a signal to potential Western sponsors than an appeal to the current political reality. Alexei Navalny's supporters, for example, are far right nationalists who are unlikely ascribe to a liberal set of policies.
As one Kremlin source noted, "without the support of the far right and left, the opposition shrinks to a minority liberal camp. Mikhail Prokhorov, for example, is now clearly in the ascendancy, and after the presidential elections, in which he has a chance of finishing in third place, he will almost certainly form a party of his own."
According to the analysis of the skeptics, Grigory Yavlinsky's Yabloko is the only party that has any appeal beyond a small caucus of Moscow intellectuals. But Yavlinsky has always distanced himself from the liberal ideology, emphasizing the social-democratic character of his party. And because of the personal relationship with the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Grigory Yavlinsky will never support any radical anti-Putin platform.
On close examination, then, the megablock of liberal parties seems unlikely to achieve anything other than some Western-friendly publicity.
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The head of the Russian Security Council says the country is upgrading its military forces to be better equipped to face modern challenges like terrorism, rather than the global standoff of the Cold War era. Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper asked Nikolai Patrushev about his attitude to a statement by ...
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Putin’s Campaign Promises to Cost $170 Bln
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Lavish social spending promised by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his bid to return to the presidency will cost the federal budget at least 5.1 trillion rubles ($170 billion), the Central Bank said.
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February 17, 2012
The Iran Conflict Comes To The Caucasus
by Brian Whitmore
When police in Tbilisi discovered and defused a bomb on the car of an employee of the Israeli Embassy on February 13, it marked the second time in less than a month that the Jewish state's diplomats had become the target of an attack in the South Caucasus.
The other incident came in late January when Azerbaijani security officials said they had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Israeli ambassador, a local rabbi, and other prominent Jews in that country. Police arrested two Azerbaijani nationals in connection with that plot.
In both cases, Iran has been named as the suspected mastermind. Israel publicly accused Tehran of being behind the aborted Tbilisi attack. And officials in Baku said the two Azerbaijani suspects arrested in January had collaborated on the alleged assassination plot with an Iranian citizen connected to that country's security services.
Iran has denied involvement in either incident. But analysts say the two cases illustrate how Georgia and Azerbaijan -- due to their proximity to Iran and their close relations with Israel and the United States -- risk being drawn deeper into the quickly escalating conflict between Tehran on one side and Israel and the West on the other.
"We think of Iran primarily through the lens of the Persian Gulf. But this is a reminder that it also functions as a Caspian and Caucasian power," says Nicholas Gvosdev, a professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College.
"Everyone is focused on Iran's ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz," he continued. "Well, it can cause problems in the Caucasus, as well, if it so chooses."
Asymmetrical Warfare
The foiled bomb plots in Georgia and Azerbaijan -- as well as recent attacks in India and Thailand -- came amid escalating tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program, with talk of potential military strikes by the United States or Israel becoming increasingly frequent.
The talk of armed conflict has sparked fears of reprisal attacks in the Caucasus region.
Besik Aladashvili, a Tbilisi-based security analyst, said Georgia could be more vulnerable to attacks similar to the one that was thwarted this week if armed conflict breaks out.
"I do not rule out the possibility that should the United States and Israel launch a military operation against Iran, then Iran will retaliate. This will happen in countries around the world," Aladashvili told RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
"If things escalate -- God forbid -- into an open confrontation, we cannot exclude the possibility of Georgia becoming part of the conflict and terrorist attacks occurring here."
Analysts say Iran is looking to raise the cost of confrontation by carrying out "asymmetrical" attacks on Israeli targets. Tehran is convinced that Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, is behind a series of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and is seeking to exact revenge.
Wayne Merry, a former U.S. State Department official who is now senior fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, says due to Georgia and Azerbaijan's proximity to and visa-free-travel agreements with Iran, Israeli facilities in those countries will continue to make for tempting targets.
"I think what we are looking at here is a low-level asymmetric conflict between intelligence services -- Iranian and Israeli -- in which the territory and sovereignty of other countries are not well-respected," Merry says.
Baku-Tehran Tensions
Moreover, the saber-rattling between Iran and the West come amid a festering -- albeit thus far low-intensity -- conflict between Tehran and Baku, making Azerbaijan additionally vulnerable.
Much of this stems from Baku's close relations with Tel Aviv, analysts say.
Azerbaijan, a predominantly Muslim country that is home to approximately 9,000 Jews, has exceptionally warm relations with Israel. Azerbaijan provides Israel with the bulk of its oil, while Israel sells Azerbaijan weapons. The close relations have long been an irritant to Iran.
Tehran has also long believed that Azerbaijan is allowing the Mossad to operate freely on its territory.
"The Iranians perceive that Baku is being used by Israel as a base of intelligence operations -- whether electronic listening or sending in and out agents or whatever," Merry says. "In Iran, there is a perception that along its northern perimeter, Azerbaijan is a place that is being used by Israel in its broader rivalry with the Islamic republic."
Earlier this month, Iran summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador in Tehran and accused Baku of assisting Mossad in staging actions across the two country's common border -- specifically, the recent wave of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Azerbaijan denied those allegations, calling them "absurd" and "slander."
Highlighting Western Ties
Ross Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan and Turkey, said that in the event of armed conflict between Iran and the West measures will likely need to be taken to protect Azerbaijan from Iranian reprisals.
"As for the position that Azerbaijan finds itself in, I think that is a topic that our leaders -- at the appropriate point and I don't think we're there yet -- will have to have a conversation about," Wilson told RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service.
"Azerbaijan will not be the only country, if it comes to this, that is in an extremely difficult situation and will need some help and reassurance."
For their part, Azerbaijani officials appear to be going out of their way to highlight their close relations with Israel and the United States.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 15. Aliyev also met with Israeli President Shimon Peres on January 25 and with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month.
Azerbaijani officials have also hinted at territorial claims against Iran, where ethnic Azeris make up the largest minority, with 16 percent of the population. Some legislators have even suggested changing the country's name to "North Azerbaijan," implying that the southern part of Azerbaijan is now an Iranian province.
Azerbaijan's neighbor and rival, Armenia, which has close relations with Iran, has managed to escape being drawn into the tensions thus far. And as Merry explains, this is no accident, due to Tehran's close relations with Yerevan.
"If you look at the three Caucasus states, Iran feels a good deal of bitterness towards Azerbaijan, a good deal of partnership and mutual interest with Armenia, and less so with Georgia," Merry says. "So in terms of choosing priorities for targets, I would suspect that those priorities are reflected."
RFE/RL's Azerbaijani and Georgian services contributed to this report
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Analysis: Putin's state sector crackdown short on substance
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The Enablers via NYT > Editorials by on 2/13/12 China, Russia and India are resisting international action against Syria and Iran. February 14, 2012 The Enablers China, Russia and India see themselves as global leaders. So why have they been enabling two dangerous regimes, Syria and Iran, to continue on destructive paths?...
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Touch Russia 2012 - Photo Competition
"Both touching and above Russia from a Petersburg rooftop as the sun sets over the city on an evening in June, 2011." (Photo by Kathleen O'Rourke)
To celebrate the beginning of a new year with RBTH and the addition of our iPad app Touch Russia to our RBTH family, we invite you to take part in the first edition of the Touch Russia Photo Competition. Cody White has travelled around Russia literally touching all things Russian (http://touchrussia.tumblr.com/). Now it’s your turn to touch Russia! Send us a photo showing us how you “touch Russia” and you might win an American Apparel T-shirt with RBTH’s logo. You can be as original and creative as you wish, and you can interpret the sentence “touch Russia” in many different ways. The photo does not need to have been taken in Russia, so you really have no excuses. Get your camera and show us how you touch Russia! You have time until the 20th of February 2012 to submit your beautiful, touchable, heart-touching photos by sending them to ipad@rbth.ru. All the photos will be published in this special Facebook album, so don’t miss the opportunity!
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Арест Владимира Путина: репортаж из зала суда
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Владимир Милов: Путин причастен к трагедии в Беслане
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Арест Владимира Путина: репортаж из зала суда
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Анн Нива об ультраполитизации и ультраполяризации России
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