Monday, January 28, 2013

News Review - 1.28.13: Is Moscow Setting the Russian Opposition's Agenda? | Putin Ousts Dagestan Leader Magomedov | Police Colonel Killed In Russian Republic | America says no to dialogue with Russia - Pravda | Russia 'set to run out of palladium' - BDlive | Russia's Real Friends in the West - The Moscow Times | In Protest, U.S. Quits Working Group | 'No flexibility yet' in Russia-US relations – PM Medvedev | Russia Cracks Down on LGBT Groups, Civil SocietyHuman Rights First | Polonsky Tells Lavrov 'Big Money' Behind His Detention | Russia tries whistleblower, despite his death | Putin to Visit Antarctica

 

via NYT > Global Opinion by By MASHA GESSEN on 1/28/13
Has Putin's regime hijacked the Russian opposition's agenda by provoking it to protest increasingly absurd and aggressive laws?


A woman threw sour cabbage at the Russian nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky at a news conference in Kyiv.

via Russia - Google News on 1/28/13

Spiegel Online




Euro zone and Russia near debt compromise on Cyprus
Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe and Russia are getting closer to a deal on how to involve Moscow in bailing out indebted Cyprus after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signaled willingness to help. Medvedev was quoted as saying on Monday that Russia ...
Russia's Medvedev: help for Cyprus only if conditions met - paperReuters UK

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via The Moscow Times Top Stories by By Alexander Winning and Ivan Nechepurenko <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 1/27/13
President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed Magomedsalam Magomedov as leader of turbulent Dagestan, a republic where authorities are fighting a militant Islamist insurgency.

Interior Ministry officials in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's volatile North Caucasus say a police colonel was killed by an unknown assailant.

via Russia - Google News on 1/28/13





America says no to dialogue with Russia
Pravda
Recall, the U.S.-Russian Presidential Commission was established in July 2009, during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Russia. It was designed to improve cooperation between Moscow and Washington after the White House announced a "reset" ...



via Russia - Google News on 1/28/13

Washington Post




Putin fires head of Russia's restive Dagestan region
Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the head of Russia's southerly Dagestan province, the Kremlin said on Monday, signaling concern over mounting Islamist violence, corruption and political rivalries in the Caucasus.
Putin dismisses leader of Russia's restive Caucasus province of DagestanWashington Post
Putin sacks leader of Russia's troubled Dagestan regionBBC News
Putin dismisses head of Russia's troubled Dagestan regionYahoo! News (blog)
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Russian President Putintakes part in a ceremony, in which the diplomatic credentials of newly appointed ambassadors were accepted, at the Kremlin in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the head of Russia's southerly Dagestan province, the Kremlin said on Monday, signaling concern over mounting Islamist violence, corruption and political rivalries in the Caucasus. Putin appointed Magomedsalam Magomedov, 49, to a role in the presidential administration, the Kremlin statement said, removing him from a post that he had held since 2010. Ramzan Abdulatipov, 67, a veteran politician elected last year as deputy head of the ruling United Russia party in the lower house of parliament, was named acting head of Dagestan. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has named former Russian Nationalities Minister Ramazan Abdulatipov as acting head of Abdulatipov's home republic of Daghestan, replacing Magomedsalam Magomedov, whose dismissal has been anticipated.

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ABC News




Russia Tries Whistleblower, Despite His Death
ABC News
Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, in the latest twist in a case that has become a byword for rampant Russian corruption and has severely strained U.S.-Russian relations. The posthumous trial has ...
Russia 'Never Supported' Syrian GovernmentVoice of America
Russia opens trial of dead lawyer MagnitskyAljazeera.com
Facing worldwide criticism over whistleblower's death, Russia prepares to try ...Fox News
UPI.com
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FILE - This Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 file photo shows a portrait of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in jail, which is held by his mother Nataliya Magnitskaya, unseen, as she speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow. Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he is dead, in the latest twist in a case that has severely strained U.S.- Russian relations. Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital fund, died in jail in 2009 after accusing Russian officials of colluding in stealing $230 million from the state. He was arrested on suspicion of tax evasion by the same Interior Ministry officials he accused. A Moscow court on Monday Jan. 28, 2012 set preliminary hearings in the posthumous trial for Feb. 18. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, in the latest twist in a case that has become a byword for rampant Russian corruption and has severely strained U.S.-Russian relations.

via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 1/27/13
President Vladimir Putin will soon recommence his "active hobbies" despite several months of speculation about his health, his spokesman said Monday.

via Russia - Google News on 1/28/13

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In Russia, Tank Zips through Traffic
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A Russian motorist equipped with a dashboard video camera captured frightening footage Saturday of a fast-moving tank cutting across an intersection on a busy highway in the Ural Mountains city of Nizhny Tagil. But local officials explained that it ...
Tank appears out of nowhere flying across busy road in RussiaPravda
Highway Tank 'Broke No Traffic Rules'RIA Novosti
Highway tank terror: T-90 video goes viral (VIDEO)RT

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