Friday, November 15, 2013

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» Gays caused Chelyabinsk meteorite? Russian LGBT community accuses TV ... - RT
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RT Gays caused Chelyabinsk meteorite? Russian LGBT community accuses TV ... RT In a reference to the Old Testament story of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, famous journalist Arkady Mamontov said on his program that the fall of the Chel...

On State-Sponsored Homophobia in Russia

Guest post by Russian sociologist, Anastasia Tsaturyan.
Can a homophobic government create a homophobic populace?
On State-Sponsored Homophobia in Russia | Social (In)Queery (Nov 14, 2013 12:10) 


LGBTQ Nation
MOSCOW — A Russian newspaper is the first organization to come under scrutiny for alleged violation of the country's anti-gay “propaganda” law after it published an interview with a openly gay middle schoolteacher... In the profile of Yermoshkin ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Olga Bakhayeva, a 24-year-old history teacher, was pressured into resigning from her job at a school in the Urals city of Magnitogorsk following a stream of hate mail attributed to Timur and several complaints to local officials, including prosecutors ... 

BuzzFeed
Human rights activists warn these “KGB-like” tactics are an ominous escalation in the assault on LGBT rights ahead of the Olympic games. posted on November 13, 2013 at 9:41pm EST ... Since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency last year, Russian ...

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BBC News UK- Russia Year of Culture unveiled BBC News Russia and the UK are teaming up ...
Financial Times (registration) (blog) The crumbling Kremlin? The Economist (blog) IN TH...

Telegraph.co.uk
The relatively low attendance reflected the sense of weariness among the oppositionmovement, which has been losing its energy after a series of major anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow in the winter of 2011-2012, which attracted 100,000 or more.

Chattanooga Times Free Press
People carry a banner " End Putinism, Free prisoners " during an opposition rally in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Several thousand opposition supporters are marching through the Russian capital to demand the release of people they consider ...



American Thinker

Putin came to office promising to liquidate Russia's corrupt class of oligarchs, but what he in fact did was liquidate only those who sought to challenge the Kremlin's authority. The sun at the center of this universe ofcorruption; it's rumored that ...





Africa Intelligence (subscription)
In addition, the firm's founder, Gennadi Timchenko, a close friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin, hopes to also diversify his business by making his first acquisitions in exploration and production. Gabon, new hub - Signed in June and expected to ...

Africa Intelligence (subscription)
Brazzaville is keen to relaunch several projects with Gunvor, Gazprom, Stroytransgaz and the Russian energy ministry, including construction of a gas pipeline between Pointe-Noire and Oyo and the creation of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the oil ...




Upstream Online

The Enel deal is said to have increased tensions between Russian oil barons Sechin, a long-standing ally of Putin, and Timchenkoas the president seeks to boost the fortunes of the economically significant sector, although Gunvor denied any rift ...

Bloomberg
Russian pop star honored by President Vladimir Putin works as a money courier for the international crime syndicate known as the Brothers' Circle, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Grigory Lepsveridze, who goes by the stage name Grigory Leps ...

Aljazeera.com
Posters of Russian President Vladimir Putinhave become a common sight around the country, with the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper even publishing photographs on Thursday of a "Thanks, Putin" poster hung by residents of Luxor. Sergey Lavrov and Nabil ...

Arab News
Earlier this year, confronted during a televised question-and-answer session that his crackdown against opponents echoed Stalinism, a bristling Putin responded: “Stalinism is linked with the cult of personalityand massive violations of the law, with ...

Deutsche Welle
He does not believe that Snowden is working with Russian intelligence. Putin, himself a former KGB agent, also denies Snowden is cooperating with intelligence services. Pifer vehemently disagrees. Snowden, he believes, is a defector, not a whistleblower.

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Yanukovych has held at least three secretive meetings with Russian President VladimirPutin in the last two weeks, and in their wake the Ukrainian leader's enthusiasm for Euro-integration seems to be waning. "The EU has been right to say that ... So ...

KpopStarz
Even in prison the anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot is dangerous. The Interfax news agency reported that Russia's prison ...."You should know that when it comes to politics, I am a Stalinist." Colonel Kulagin, the other head administrator ...


Forbes

By which de Waal means a more prominent role for the church and the return of the Stalincult. Literally. One wonders how Georgians will take that insulting profile of ... He would rather play at ad hominem political horse-race comparisons between ...




Эхо Москвы в Санкт-Петербурге

Согласитесь, что это было коренным изменением точки зрения на путинизмчеловеком, так долго стоически стоявшим на последней линии его обороны. «Путинизм – дерьмо», – упрямо годами повторял Радзиховский, – «но он защищает нас от ...




Council on Foreign Relations


It seems only yesterday that President Vladimir Putin seized the world's attention with his proposal to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control. To many, the fancy footwork had a clear message: Russia was back in the diplomatic big ...