Sep

4

No Cossack Love for Cathy

September 4, 2007 | 72 Comments

We’ve seen rioting over WWII burials and protests against resurrecting a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky. But a protest against a statue to Catherine the Great!? Yes. It seems in some quarters Russia’s history as a whole, and not just its communist past, is cause for nationalist outrage. Reuters reports that [...]

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Sep

4

Lights! Camera! Action!

September 4, 2007 | 3 Comments

The Russian electoral season is already unfolding like a stage performance.  Putin, who we might refer to as the Director, announced the date for his troupe’s first performance: the State Duma elections scheduled for December 1.  Kommersant Vlast’ has a thorough breakdown of its prediction of how the 450 Duma seats will be divided.  The [...]

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