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Translation
of yesterday’s speech by Medvedev is here! 14 pages on Word at 10 point font. Now to run through and pick out my own quotes…
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Russian Corruption
from Yulia Latynina: I have been wondering lately: How much of Russia’s gross domestic product is lost to bribes taken by government officials? Consider an ordinary example — the price of housing. The...
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Mikhail Lesin
I have never been interested in Mikhail Lesin because I always imagined him a minor player who was initially kept on as a courtesy to Boris Yeltsin, and then somehow managed to survive in the dog eat...
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Medvedev’s Speech
I am posting a link to Medvedev’s speech at Davos. I have not had time to go through it yet, but I will post some comments in the next few days. A lot of people were worried that the terror attack...
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No Commentary
This next piece needs to be shared in its entirety without any of my own opinions attached to it, I think. The only thing I will say is that Andrei Piontkovsky’s ending prediction came as something of...
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Marina Litvinovich
has created a website called Election 2012. On it she looks at members of the Russian Government, their ties to one another, their ties to big business/oligarchs, their past associations with the...
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Security vs Corruption at Sochi
With a little more than 100 days to go until the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi, security has become a central focus. Any security system has its weak spots, but as two incidents this week...
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Arsen Kanokov
The Kremlin accepted the resignation of Kabardino-Balkaria’s chief, Arsen Kanokov, on Friday. A short announcement posted on the President’s website simply stated that Arsen Kanokov had resigned and...
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Pyatigorsk & Volgograd2
With just 40 days until the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, a suicide bombing took place this afternoon in Volgograd, Russia. Media reports 18 dead and 60 injured so far, but that number is expected to...
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