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Новости, деловые новости Inside Russia and Eurasia - home The Moscow Times | Russia's only daily English-language newspaper :: Johnson's Russia List :: JRL Home :: Government, Politics, Elections, Protests - archive :: Putin Urges Duma Dominance as Medvedev Promotes New Parties Opposition leaders who organized protests that erupted after alleged Duma election fraud in December say that a new law proposed by lame duck president Medvedev will not prevent authorities from blocking the formation of parties wishing to compete in elections ... Ilya Arkhipov and Stepan Kravchenko, Bloomberg ; JRL 2012-62, 4.4.12 :: Moscow Region Governor to Leave Post in May The powerful governor of the Moscow region will step down once his term ends in May, signaling that the Kremlin is serious about removing unpopular governors before the possible return of direct gubernatorial elections this year ... U.S. :: Russian Pundits Say 'Reset' With USA Over, Mull Future Of Bilateral Ties Two Russian pundits interviewed by state-owned RIA Novosti news agency have said that U.S. :: Video: Ambassador Mike McFaul Interview with VOA - Back to the Top - Middle East, Syria - archive Interfax

The Moscow News Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008 1 Scott Gries/Getty Images If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, shes going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clintons to lose, but it takes a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the first Iowa caucus was held. Peter writes: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? Hopefully, Peter got a second opinion. 3 ERIC CABANIS/Getty Images [In] reality the risks to maritime flows of oil are far smaller than is commonly assumed. On Nov. 15, 2008 a group of Somali pirates in inflatable rafts hijacked a Saudi oil tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude in the Indian Ocean. 4 Spencer Platt/Getty Images 6 Brad Barket/Getty Images

Новости KP.RU Последние новости России, Украины и мира, новости шоу-бизнеса, бизнес-новости дня Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization Published October 18, 2010 Authored by Bruce Etling, Karina Alexanyan, John Kelly, Rob Faris, John Palfrey, Urs Gasser Download PDF (English) Новое! Полный текст исследования опубликован на русском языке: Download PDF (Russian). With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Berkman Center is undertaking a two-year research project to investigate the role of the Internet in Russian society. Key Findings We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Key findings include: Unlike their counterparts in the US and elsewhere, Russian bloggers prefer platforms that combine features typical of blogs with features of social network services (SNSs) like Facebook. This is part of a series of papers released by the Berkman Center's project studying the Impact of the Internet on Russian Politics, Media, and Society.

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