Tag Archives: Russian politics

... even before the US Treasury announced its newest sanctions against Russian individuals and their companies for “malign activity around the globe”, ... President-elect Vladimir Putin was preparing a successor cabinet of ministers on the principle that they would be organized as a headquarters staff for fighting a war on all fronts, without the option of negotiating terms with the enemy. The impact of the US sanctions, along with the campaign of the British Government in the Skripal...

Not just about the impending Russian election. It's a brief summary of most of what's important going on in Russia, none of which the Western media will touch.Asia TimesIt’s all Putin’s fault… but still he wins Pepe Escobar

I laughed my head off when I saw this. So I emailed Eugenia and begged her to subtitle this in English (press “cc” to see the English subs). Not only is this video really funny, it is blissfully politically incorrect. Just see for yourself! Truth be told, the message of this video is pretty clear: vote for Putin or brace for either Commie or Western hell. In a deeper sense it also shows how most Russians feel about Soviet or Western “values”. By the way, a lot of people in Russia...

Putin is taking a new tack politically positioning himself way from the unpopular liberals and toward the socialists. His most serious competition is from Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin. who is widely expected to place second. This is bad news for Western liberals looking for liberal populist regime change in Russia. Now they are looking at a return to socialist rule as the alternative to Putin. For Russ Putin's 2018 Election Campaign: A New Beginning?Eduard Popov -...

Another side of the story that you won't find in Western media. Russia FeedNavalny’s phoney Presidential bid and the Russian Presidential election Alexander See also On December 29, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) registered the unchallenged leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as a presidential candidate. Zhirinovsky, who is going to run for president for the sixth time, is the first officially registered participant in the election race. In...

Anatoly Karlin explains the coming 2018 presidential election in light of contemporary Russian politics. The Unz Review Russia Elections 2018: Elections as Regime ReferendumsAnatoly Karlin

The President’s news conference was broadcast live by Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24 and Channel One, as well as Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii radio stations. The President of Russia (official English translation)Vladimir Putin’s annual news conferenceDecember 14, 2017,  Moscow

More than half of Russians (52%) believe certain amendments should be introduced to the country’s Constitution, a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center showed on Tuesday. "Every second Russian (52%) believes it is necessary to amend the country’s Constitution. Among the top issues, which, according to citizens, should be reflected in the Constitution, are wages, pensions, free health care and education," the pollster said.... The poll was conducted on December...

Backgrounder. It's longish, so save it for weekend reading. It is the best analysis of Russian conservatism I have run across. They discuss the economy near the end. The beginning is Rusian history and the middle is Russian politics. Russian public opinion is more sovereigntist, more conservative than the Russian government. Most Russians are not raging liberals clamoring for universal rights, freedom and democracy, and internationalism. They are first and foremost Russians, for whom the...

Asked who they’d vote for if the elections were held this Sunday, 53 percent named Putin.... he Levada Center’s poll showed that 2 percent would vote for opposition leader Alexei Navalny.... Fewer than 1 percent said they’d vote for celebrity Ksenia Sobchak, who announced her candidacy last week. The former reality television presenter topped a separate poll on Thursday of Russia’s least trusted public figures....  Levada conducted its survey in 137 towns and cities across 48 Russian...