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Сотрудников Commerzbank обвинили в пособничестве отмыванию денег из РФ | Германия | Deutsche Welle |
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Прокуратура Франкфурта-на-Майне предъявила обвинения четырем сотрудникам Commerzbank и одному датскому адвокату. В деле об отмывании в Европе российских денег фигурирует имя бывшего министра связи РФ Леонида Реймана. DW-WORLD.DE, die Deutsche Welle im Internet: Nachrichten, Analyse und Service aus D...
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Главреда российского 'Коммерсант-Власть' уволили за фото с матами про Путина
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Главреда и гендиректора холдинга уволили за фото бюллетеня с надписью 'Путин, пошел на х..'.
Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 56 мин. назад | Russia and The West
Мат или политика: В России гадают, что стало первопричиной увольнений в "Коммерсанте" | Россия | Deu
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Публикация бюллетеня с ругательством в адрес Путина стало причиной увольнений топ-менеджеров ИД "Коммерсант". В России гадают, только ли "нарушение журналистской этики" заставило Алишера Усманова указать им на дверь. DW-WORLD.DE, die Deutsche Welle im Internet: Nachrichten, Analyse und Service aus D...
Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 2 ч. назад | Russia and The West
Российская оппозиция ищет единого лидера
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Проект ИноСМИ.Ru публикует самые яркие и примечательные материалы зарубежных СМИ на русском языке.
Medvedev: Parliament will meet next week By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press – 1 hou...
Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 2 ч. назад | Russia and The West
Medvedev: Parliament will meet next week
By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press – 1 hour ago
MOSCOW (AP) — The new Russian Parliament chosen in a fraud-tainted election will go ahead with its first session, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday, showing no inclination to bend to unprecedented nationwide protests that drew tens of thousands into the streets.
Medvedev acknowledged the vote-fraud complaints, but said lawmakers will meet on Dec. 21 anyway, ignoring demands that officials annul the election and start over.
"The State Duma must begin work," he said at a meeting with leaders of the four parties that won Parliament seats in the Dec. 4 vote. "We must continue working on our legislation because that is the whole reason behind having a parliament."
Leaders of two of the parties were openly critical of the elections after the meeting with the president. One maintained that the vote was "illegitimate."
The Saturday protests in some 60 Russian cities, including a throng of tens of thousands in Moscow, have left Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and members of United Russia searching for a strategy that would defuse the widespread anger without weakening their own position.
Even with the reported vote fraud, United Russia reached only a narrow majority, losing about 20 percent of its seats in the parliament and revealing voter frustration at ingrained corruption and the wide gap between everyday Russians and the country's plutocrats.
Medvedev told the leaders of the four parliamentary parties that "we must continue work not only on economic issues, but on reforming the political system. ... take more decisive steps to remove barriers on political activity."
Much of Russia's opposition political forces have been heavily marginalized by the authorities. Election law sets registration requirements so high that smaller parties cannot muster enough signatures to compete in elections. It requires at least 5 percent of the national vote even to get a token single seat in parliament.
The three other parties that won seats in the new parliament either do not offer significant opposition to United Russia or generally vote in step with it. But they were outspoken following the meeting with Medvedev.
"We consider these elections illegitimate from both the moral and the political point of view," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told reporters.
Sergei Mironov, head of the A Just Russia party, said the new Duma's first task should be to form a parliamentary investigation "to punish all those who muddled the real expression of the citizens' will and those who dared to break the law."
Medvedev said in the meeting that he believed election commissions and courts should take a look at violations complaints.
One of the most striking aspects of the weekend protests was that Russia's state-controlled national television channels, which generally have ignored the opposition or portrayed them in derogatory terms, gave substantial airtime to the demonstrations without apparent bias.
But on Tuesday, media critics claimed authorities were behind the firing of a top editor and senior manager and one of the country's leading media holding companies.
Alisher Usmanov, one of Russia's richest men and owner of the Kommersant-Holding company, said in a website statement that the two had been dismissed for an "ethical breach." But one of those fired, Kommersant Vlast editor Maxim Kovalsky, said he believed he was dismissed because a photograph his weekly news magazine published that contained vulgar words aimed at Putin.
Kommersant Vlast's scathing headlines and copy about the alleged vote fraud helped make its reports about the election particularly stinging. Kovalsky, who has edited the magazine since 1999, has turned it into the nation's most popular news weekly.
The magazine and the daily Kommersant newspaper, the nation's leading business daily, are a must-read for Russia's political class and its economic elite, and they have long been considered the nation's most stable and high-quality publications.
Usmanov, a metals tycoon, explained his decision by saying that some recent reports in Kommersant Vlast "bordered on petty hooliganism," but didn't elaborate.
Kovalsky said on Ekho Moskvy radio that he was told the reason for his ouster was a photograph of a ballot containing obscene words directed at Putin. Kovalsky said he published the photo, even though he knew it might anger the owner. "We are serving the readers and not the bosses," the editor said.
Demyan Kudryavtsev, the head of the Kommersant Publishing House, took the blame, saying on his blog that the issue of Kommersant Vlast had been published "in violation of internal procedures, professional journalistic standards and the Russian law." He apologized to the readers on his blog and said he had submitted his own resignation.
But Nadezhda Azhgihina, executive secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists, described Usmanov's move as censorship. "We are shocked. It's a clear example of censorship from the owner, a Russian oligarch, who just threw away the general manager and the chief editor of Kommersant Vlast magazine," she told The Associated Press.
Vsevolod Bogdanov, the union's chairman, also described Usmanov's move as a "clear evidence of censorship," according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
During Putin's 12-year rule as president and later prime minister, the state took control of all nationwide television networks, which gave blanket positive coverage to him and other top officials.
Some of the print media have managed to retain their independence and have been critical of the government, but they also have faced pressure from owners fearing their business interests could suffer because of the criticism.
Tuesday's firings and resignations are not the first in recent weeks at Kommersant's media.
In late November, a deputy editor of its Gazeta.ru news site was pressured to resign over a map of pre-election violations compiled by Golos, the country's only independent election monitoring group.
Sofia Javed and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
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Medvedev: Parliament will meet next week
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Гендиректор "Коммерсанта" останется на своем посту Отставка гендиректора "Комм...
Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 2 ч. назад | Russia and The West
Гендиректор "Коммерсанта" останется на своем посту
Отставка гендиректора "Коммерсанта" не может быть принята, так как он взял на себя ответственность за "промахи" коллег, но не выразил своей солидарности с ними. А главред "Коммерсант Власть" заявил, что не сожалеет о своем увольнении.
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Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 4 ч. назад | Russia and The West
Волошин понял, кто подтасовал итоги выборов: Медведев и Путин ни при чем. Блоггеры доказали другое
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Ни президент, ни глава ЦИК не верят видеороликам о нарушениях, Чуров даже знает, кто и где снимал это "кино". Но одно из последних видео сильно впечатлило экс-главу путинской администрации, и он тут же нашел "виноватых", изумив блоггеров. Они проверили данные ЦИК "научным методом" и обнаружили, что ...
НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЧЕСОТКИ
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НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЧЕСОТКИ
Mike Nova commented on Русский журнал: Глебушка - красавчик. Это он всё начал (хотя я и ругал его сначала за излишнюю философическую туманность): маленький умный юркий сперматозоид прошил большую глупую инертную яйцеклетку и из неё выскочил, так её и не оплодотворив; она была стерильна изначально. А может быть, это и не яйцеклетка была вовсе, а нечто альтернативное....
Сегодня, December 13, 2011, 15 ч. назад | Russia and The West
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Ссылка на сайте ИД Коммерсантъ: подождите автоматического перехода или нажмите здесьlocation.href='/doc/1837144';
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 10:50:19 PM | Russia and The West
Could Mikhail Prokhorov be the man to take on Vladimir Putin?
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David Hearst: Russia's third richest man could have seen an opportunity – or it could just be a move to give the illusion of opposition
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 10:07:57 PM | Russia and The West
Kasparov: A Chance for Change of Another Illusion? : The Other Russia
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One of the conclusions that can be reached from the December 4 elections is that the “Party of Swindlers and Thieves” has, once again, brilliantly lived up to its name. Cheating and thievery have ceased to even be an open secret, and it involved not only the massive falsifications that the party of ...
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 8:38:58 PM | Russia and The West
"НГ" прокомментировала, как религиозные деятели России отнеслись к протестам против фальсификации вы
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Как отметило издание, если православные лидеры пытаются умиротворить общественность, то глава департамента по общественным связям Федерации еврейских общин России Борух Горин критикует московских евреев за желание играть заметную роль в нынешних митингах и напоминает о той роли, которую евреи в рево...
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 8:27:58 PM | Russia and The West
Russian billionaire to confront Putin
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Mikhail Prokhorov announces his return to politics – and he wants to go all the way to the Kremlin.
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 7:38:39 PM | Russia and The West
anticompromat: об итогах Болотной
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Вчера, December 12, 2011, 5:29:55 PM | Russia and The West
David Satter: Assessing the "Reset" in U.S.-Russia Relations
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David Satter is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former special correspondent on Soviet affairs for the Wall Street Journal. Here he assesses U....
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 5:02:55 PM | Russia and The West
Billionaire Prokhorov picks a fight with Putin
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Candidates have been throwing their hats into the ring ahead of the Russia's upcoming presidential run-off. One of the world's richest men, Russian businessm...
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 4:53:31 PM | Russia and The West
Russia tycoon Prokhorov launches Kremlin bid
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Russian metals tycoon and US basketball team owner Mikhail Prokhorov says he intends to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in next year's presidential e...
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 4:51:51 PM | Russia and The West
Russian Tycoon to Compete With Putin in Election
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Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladi...
Вчера, December 12, 2011, 4:33:12 PM | Russia and The West
Мультличности. Три дня в политике.
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Russian Politics - Российская Политика's Facebook Wall Сегодня, December 11, 2011, 13 мин. назад *белый список Суркова: топ-10*Всем известно, что есть черные Сегодня, December 11, 2011, 13 мин. назад | Russian Politics - Российская Политика *белый список Суркова: топ-10*Всем известно, что есть черные *белый список Суркова: топ-10*Всем известно, что есть черные белый список Суркова: топ-10 Всем известно, что есть черные списки, отлучающие от телевизора....
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For Fair Elections in Russia - Links's Facebook Wall Сегодня, December 11, 2011, 11 ч. назад Сегодня, December 11, 2011, 11 ч. назад | For Fair Elections in Russia - Links Russian TV, Changing Its Strategy, Shows Protests www.nytimes.com Government television covered the protests much as they had occurred — to the surprise of many.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011, 2:27:50 PM | Russia and The West
Russian Tycoons Find Tougher Times as Money Flees
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Capital flight has re-emerged in modern Russia — a sign of the problems facing the country’s business elite, and the economy itself.
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 7:47:59 AM | Russia and The West
Russia Acknowledges Public Anger Over Vote
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After a day of massive protests, Russian officials have acknowledged the public is "displeased" by recent parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, some 300 nationalists staged their own rally in downtow...
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Газета.Ru - Сторонники Лимонова не смогли зайти в гостиницу, заседание проводят на улице, прибыла по
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Сторонники лидера незарегистрированной партии Другая Россия Эдуарда Лимонова так и не смогли зайти в гостиницу «Измайлово» и решили проводить заседание инициативной группы
