PHOTO GALLERY: From Russia with love: Putin and MedvedevA hilarious yet surprisingly revealing photo gallery, featuring candid moments between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and PM Vladimir Putin. Is their bro-mance on on the skids?
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Does Putin want to be President again?
After serving a little over a year as Russia’s Prime Minister, former Russian President Vladimir Putin looks have sit sights set back on the country’s top job, announcing he may run again in 2012.
Censorship and cowardice at Conde Nast
Publisher Conde Nast has buried a story from GQ on possible connections between Vladimir Putin, the KGB and a series of 1999 bombings officially blamed on Chechen terrorists, keeping the piece off the web and out of Russia, for fear of reprisals.
Putin builds up military fortress in Abkhazia
Russia will spend nearly A$600 million developing its military presence in the contested region of Abkhazia. Vladimir Putin hopes that Abkhazia will become to Russia what Monaco is to France. A celebrity tax haven?
Crikey Says: In bed with Vladimir Putin
Prostitutes, showgirls and now Putins’s four poster — Italian politics is another world.
History not on Obama’s side when it comes to Russia
The bulk of Obama’s visit to Russia was a mix of visionary kitsch, caviar and feckless horse-trading, says Claudia Rosett. He also called for common ground and progress toward a shared future. But that vision is flawed.
What’s standing in the way of US-Russia relations?
Well, Putin for one, says Russian political analyst Yevgeny Kiselyov — but both sides need to reset their expectations of each other.
Putin has supermarkets in a snag
Continuing his recent attempts to blame Russia’s struggling economy on business owners, Putin recently stormed into a Moscow supermarket and ordered staff to cut the price of their sausages.
Putin turns piranha
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is turning on his loyal friends to keep his head above water as the economy tanks and unemployment rises.
Kevin’s Gate. Part II – Ponderings on Putin …
Over the road, Malcolm Turnbull buys a feral abacus while Julie Bishop hunts and kills a moose, recalls Walter Slurry on behalf of our glorious leader.
Georgia v Russia wrap: Putin 1, Saakashvili 0
After six days of intensive fighting that left homes in ruins, over 1000 dead and uprooted 100,000 people, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared mission accomplished and agreed to a ceasefire, writes Sophie Black.
Rundle: Vale Solzi … Solcze … Sulzo … that Russian guy
The obituaries for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn could not help but note the complexities of this extraordinary — actually a greater word than extraordinary is required — man’s life. Guy Rundle reflects.
The price tag on doing business in Russia
You only have to spend a few days in Moscow, as I did last month, to realise that whatever advancements may have occurred under the Putin/Medvedev regime, Russia remains a highly undemocratic quasi-dictatorship, writes Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.
It’s not democracy in Russia, but does it matter?
How concerned we are by Russia’s recent flawed election, and therefore what attitude we take towards Russia in the future, will largely depend on what we think democracy is for, writes Charles Richardson.
Blogwatch: the Vladimir Putin edition
A Tsar Is Born … And Time’s Man of the Year Is … Vladimir Putin? …Gore fights back!
