http://rt.com/politics/united-russia-image-morozov/
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As the ruling party is revving up for elections under a broader coalition called the Popular Front, some believe United Russia’s image may have been tarnished. But Morozov explains that that the party has been campaigning both for its own candidates, and representatives of the front, created on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s initiative.
Last-ditch attempt to save Soviet Union remembered 20 years on
Published: 19 August, 2011, 11:30
Tanks near the White House in Moscow on August 19, 1991 (RIA Novosti / Fedoseev)
19.08.2011 11:30
19.08.2011 11:30 On August 19th twenty years ago Muscovites heard tanks rolling past their windows as a state of emergency was imposed by a group of hard-line Communist officials in a bid to seize power and stop the reforms that broke up of the Soviet Union.
http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/putins-speech-to-duma-his-first.html
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Mr. Putin holding Russia's future in his hands
The Russian Prime Minister's annual speech today to the lower house of the Parliament is normally a rather boring affair detailing the successes of the Russian government over the last year (cue images of Soviet party congresses with dull speakers droning in the same hackneyed language of near imminent triump). Putin's speech today was nothing like that.
The Duma was completely full as all 435 of the people's deputies anxiously awaited the arrival of Mr. Putin at high noon. Security was tight. When Mr. Putin walked into the hall two minutes late, the deputies applauded and waited. Coming on the heels of some very public disputes with sitting President Dmitrii Medvedev, everyone wanted to know how Putin would react in one of his chances to seize the bully pulpit from President Medvedev.
Mr. Putin immediately launched in, defending the work of the government and pointing out that European countries (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) had fared far worse in the global recession than Russia had. He pointed to Russia's positive growth rate. But most of the two-and-a-half hour long speech (followed by a one and half hour Q and A session) laid out a blueprint for the future, laying out a plan for the next ten years. He set an ambitious goal for Russia: by 2020, Russia will be one of the five leading economies in the world. Subtext to all this meanwhile: Putin wasnt going anywhere. In fact, it was his plan and if Russia wanted to continue to grow it needed him.
In a classic Putin turn of phrase, he stated that Russia would continue to develop into a united, modern economic space. The Russian state - currently swelled by massive oil and gas rents with commodity prices soaring - would be the key player in that march forward.
State capitalism was in the air; undoubtedly the thousands of bureaucrats across Russia took a deep breath - their jobs were safe. Not only that - he promised that pensions would continue to increase, money would be used to increase the birth rate. Modernization, it seems, will benefit a number of people.
http://www.library.ca.gov/history/symbols.html
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http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/putins-speech-to-duma-his-first.html
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Putin's speech to the Duma: His first campaign speech for the 2012 elections?
The Russian Prime Minister's annual speech today to the lower house of the Parliament is normally a rather boring affair detailing the successes of the Russian government over the last year (cue images of Soviet party congresses with dull speakers droning in the same hackneyed language of near imminent triump). Putin's speech today was nothing like that.
The Duma was completely full as all 435 of the people's deputies anxiously awaited the arrival of Mr. Putin at high noon. Security was tight. When Mr. Putin walked into the hall two minutes late, the deputies applauded and waited. Coming on the heels of some very public disputes with sitting President Dmitrii Medvedev, everyone wanted to know how Putin would react in one of his chances to seize the bully pulpit from President Medvedev.
Mr. Putin immediately launched in, defending the work of the government and pointing out that European countries (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) had fared far worse in the global recession than Russia had. He pointed to Russia's positive growth rate. But most of the two-and-a-half hour long speech (followed by a one and half hour Q and A session) laid out a blueprint for the future, laying out a plan for the next ten years. He set an ambitious goal for Russia: by 2020, Russia will be one of the five leading economies in the world. Subtext to all this meanwhile: Putin wasnt going anywhere. In fact, it was his plan and if Russia wanted to continue to grow it needed him.
In a classic Putin turn of phrase, he stated that Russia would continue to develop into a united, modern economic space. The Russian state - currently swelled by massive oil and gas rents with commodity prices soaring - would be the key player in that march forward.
State capitalism was in the air; undoubtedly the thousands of bureaucrats across Russia took a deep breath - their jobs were safe. Not only that - he promised that pensions would continue to increase, money would be used to increase the birth rate. Modernization, it seems, will benefit a number of people.
http://www.library.ca.gov/history/symbols.html
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