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Pavel Baev: The Opposition and Putin Remain on a Collision Course , Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume: 9, Issue, 50, March 12 Alexander Cooley : Manas Base will Remain Important for U.S. even after NATO Leaves Afghanistan , The Journal of the Turkish Weekly, March 29 Andrew Kuchins: The End of the ‘Reset’: Why Putin’s Re-Election Means Turbulence Ahead , Foreign Affairs, March 1 ( image at left by Wolfgang Wildner); quoted in Steve LeVine’s: The oil leash and other under-noticed things about Putin’s re-election , Foreign Policy, March 5 Sergey Markedonov: A Crush on Syria , Russian and India Report, March 23
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What can Western businessmen learn from the Russian hockey team's plane crash? The obvious: Do not fly Russian-made airplanes. Seriously.
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Pavel Baev's Blog - PRIO
I am packing for a trip to Moscow (first to London for a seminar at the FCO),the main point of which is to partake in the rally on February 4. The article in the EDM provides a background for the event. The anti-Putin momentum from Davos to Courchevel to the Bolotnaya square There has been much more talk about Greece than about Russia at the World Economic Forum last week, which shows that the Davos crowd typically tries to discern the future challenges by looking backwards, because the Greek financial fiasco should have been debated two years ago, while it is the Russian repercussions that are looming large for the near future. A planeload of ministers and directors of state-owned companies has duly arrived to Switzerland, and their collective message is that only Vladimir Putin’s confident win at the presidential elections in just one month could secure gradual implementation of necessary political and economic reforms ( Kommersant , 28 January; Newsru.com , RBC Daily , 27 January).
Russian strategic nuclear forces
In the last couple of months there was a flurry of statements on the future of Russian strategic forces. Most of them were part of the presidential election campaign - the "strong defense" rhetoric was an important part of the message coming from the current leadership. There wasn't much that was really new, but some developments are worth noting.
As the uprising in Syria approaches its one-year anniversary, the stand-off between its government and the international community seems set to continue for the foreseeable future. Throughout this period, Russia has been Syria’s foremost protector in the international arena. It has taken on this role because of Syria’s economic significance for the arms export industry, its role as the host of Russia’s only military base outside the former Soviet Union — and concern that a successful mass uprising might have negative consequences for its own political stability. What next Russian leaders will use the Syrian crisis as an opportunity to show that their country is still a force to be reckoned with in the Middle East. They will also press their case that overthrow of the current Syrian regime would lead to further instability in the region — which might even spread to parts of the former Soviet Union.
Russian Military Reform
V ladimir Putin insists it was all decided back in 2007. In a joint interview Monday with Russia's three national television networks, the prime minister said he and President Dmitry Medvedev had agreed to their 2012 job switch four years ago when he tapped his longtime protégé to replace him in the Kremlin. Medvedev made a similar claim at the United Russia congress last month.
The Power Vertical
Window on Eurasia
Paul Goble Staunton, June 7 – The non-Russian countries in the post-Soviet space are more or less quickly “liberating themselves from the Soviet and Imperial past,” but the Russians have not found a way – or do not want to find one – to do the same thing, according to a leading Moscow specialist on contemporary history. In yesterday’s “Novaya gazeta,” Gennady Bordyugov, a member of the RIA Novosti council of experts, sums up the findings of his latest book, “Memory Wars on the Post-Soviet Space” (in Russian, Moscow, 2011) by noting that “history is again playing a mean joke with Russia” in this regard (www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2011/060/18.html). Russia’s inability or unwillingness to make progress in this regard, he says, helps to explain why many Russians have reacted so angrily to what is taking place in the CIS countries and the Baltics in recent years, a reaction that many observers since 2005 have characterized as “wars” over memory.
"If" and "maybe". The equity market ignored the positive factors in the domestic market and instead prices were hit harder than in any other big global market. The reason cited was because of fears over how possible problems in other economies, if they happen, may eventually affect the positive picture in Russia.
Russia: Other Points of View
Jamestown presents a complete summary of the May 12, 2011 event entitled 'The Future of Kazakhstan After the Presidential Election Event Summary' featuring discussions by Jamestown Senior Fellow Vladimir Socor, Janusz... Pakistan’s Punjab Province is home to some of the world’s most insidious terrorist groups and Islamist political organizations. Islamist and jihadist groups, organized under different Islamic sects, have flourished in Punjab and... July 21, 2011
Eurasia Blog - The Jamestown Foundation
Quand Alexeï Navalny monte sur la scène, le silence se fait. Un frisson parcourt la foule, immense, rassemblée avenue Sakharov, à Moscou. Malgré le froid, tout le monde attend le discours de ce jeune avocat-blogueur à peine sorti de prison. Infatigable croisé anticorruption, il est le héros des 80 000 Moscovites venus, ce 24 décembre, protester contre les élections législatives « volées » par le Kremlin au début du mois. Un héros dont la fulgurante ascension fascine le pays et, parfois, inquiète. Jean et manteau noir, Alexeï Navalny saisit le micro.