NATO’S NEW CONFIGURATION: NOT "DRANG NACH OSTEN", BUT "CREATING A ZONE OF STABILITY IN...
On Monday, "Novaya Gazeta" informed its readers: "The expansion of NATO, of which the Bolsheviks spoke so angrily and for so long, has now...
Preliminary results for the year: "A sado-masochistic alliance of the authorities and the people...
The press began making preliminary summations in December.
Kommersant-Vlast magazine has conducted polls with regard to three major events of the year in view of...
PARTIES AND POLITICIANS ARE DOING ELECTION RECONNAISSANCE: THE POLITICAL SEASON IS OVER – LONG...
Spring session of the Senate is over; and, by tradition, the political season has also ended. However, at present it is difficult to speak...
The end of managed democracy: democracy is ending, only management remains
It appears that "Putin's stagnation," about which the press was distressed some time ago, has finally receded into the past.
Of late, however, some observers...
Addressing himself
From President Vladimir Putin's eighth (and last) annual address to both houses of the federal parliament, we learned that Russia is now one of...
PUTIN AND BUSH: SOME UNSELFISH MALE BONDING
In drawing their initial conclusions about the Russian-American summit, various publications - some with regret, others "with a feeling of deep satisfaction" - have...
The March 12 triumph: United Russia is today’s CPSU
On Sunday, March 12, citizens of the Russian Federation tried out what the national newspapers described as "perhaps the most important innovation in Russia's...
A HOT SUMMER BEFORE A HOT AUTUMN IN POLITICS: THE ANNIVERSARY OF AUGUST 1991,...
As one national newspaper noted recently, the impression that nothing happens over summer is only an illusion. Life goes on, and there are plenty...
The president and the citizens: a conversation?
"Let's maintain the suspense on that," said Vladimir Putin after his live broadcast, when journalists asked him what he plans to do after 2008....
Putin and the Cabinet, Putin and business: "All eyes on the Kremlin!"
"I will dissolve your Cabinet!" This comment by President Vladimir Putin in Novosibirsk, in response to the theft of two capacitors from the Nuclear...





