Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Yeltsin’s Funeral: End of an Era
Today on Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow is a burial ceremony of the first President of Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.
Attempts to associate the certain time with prominent figures of recently deceased is a common approach in journalism. In case of Boris Yeltsin it is not an overstatement to say that he has to a large extent […]
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
“Dissenters’ March”
This weekend the members of “Drugaya Rossiya” (The Other Russia) have organised two more protest marches, yestersay in Moscow in today in St.Petersburg. The first event was largely undermined by the police’s special forces (OMON). As a result, two of the organisers: Garry Kasparov and Alexander Ryklin (editor of the Online Daily Journal) were arrested […]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Kasparov’s struggle with the windmills
Among the very few displays opposition’s existence can be seen in ongoing attempts from a coalition of independent non-conformist politicians “The Other Russia” (Drugaya Rossiya) to organise marches of protest. The main objective of the organisation lies in pursuit of fair State Duma elections of 2007 and the upcoming presidential elections of 2008. Among the […]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
A short and precise article in The Guardian Online concerning the “Successor Project”.