The New York Times: Validity Of Missions Under Fire In Moscow
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posted by FerrasB on December, 2005 as Freedom and Fear
Validity of missions under fire in Moscow By C. J. Chivers The New York Times WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2005 MOSCOW Early this year, as President George W. Bush began his new term, he declared a vision with allure for many people living within the stunted democracies or autocratic regimes in the former Soviet Union. "The policy of the United States," Bush said, "is to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Eleven months on, Bush's inaugural challenge is facing an oblique but determined attack in territory once under Moscow's sway. The battlegrounds are elections, which offer a glimpse into an emerging nation's political health. At issue are perceptions. What exactly is democratic progress? And who gets to define it? In much of the former Soviet Union, a patchwork of corrupt and semi-functional states where authoritarianism has proven durable ... >> full
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The New York Times: Validity Of Missions Under Fire In Moscow
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
Validity of missions under fire in Moscow By C. J. Chivers The New York Times WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2005 MOSCOW Early this year, as President George W. Bush began his new term, he declared a vision with allure for many people living within the stunted democracies or autocratic regimes in the former Soviet Union. "The policy of the United States," Bush said, "is to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Eleven months on, Bush's inaugural challenge is facing an oblique but determined attack in territory once under Moscow's sway. The battlegrounds are elections, which offer a glimpse into an emerging nation's political health. At issue are perceptions. What exactly is democratic progress? And who gets to define it? In much of the former Soviet Union, a patchwork of corrupt and semi-functional states where authoritarianism has proven durable ... >> full
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The Japan Times: Invest In Russia Now? Forget About It
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
Invest in Russia now? Forget about it By DAVID WALL Special to The Japan Times language=JavaScript> </SCRIPT> language=JavaScript src="http://ad.jp.doubleclick.net/adj/rectangle.ad2.japantimes.co.jp/opinion;sz=300x250;ord=1134642066234?"></SCRIPT> JapanTimesOnlineAds MOSCOW -- I recently attended a conference in Moscow aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to Russia. It was a high-level conference, organized by Interfax and Chatham House and attended by ministers, senior bureaucrats and leading businessmen, both Russian and foreign. For a conference designed to attract FDI -- and there were many businessmen from West Europe and North America in the room -- it was a strange event. Usually at such conferences, the locals try to oversell their country, but in this case Russian ministers, officials and businessmen competed with each other to give the strongest reasons for not investing in Russia. The minister for economic development and trade, German Gref, and natural resources minister Yuri Trutnev complained about the government for delaying, even reversing, economic reforms and about the bureaucracy for delaying and ... >> full
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MosNews: Russian TV Head Dismissed For Virtual Conversation With Putin — Paper
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
Oleg Poptsov / Photo from www.biblio-globus.ru Oleg Poptsov / Photo from www.biblio-globus.ru Russian TV Head Dismissed for Virtual Conversation With Putin — Paper Created: 22.12.2005 10:43 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:48 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135252134)); </SCRIPT> MosNews The head of the TVC television channel, owned by the Moscow city government, has been dismissed after he presented a documentary titled Your High Loneliness, in which he holds a virtual conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kommersant daily reported. Sources close to Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov told the paper that Oleg Poptsov knew that he was going to be dismissed and made a film out of revenge. Addressing the president, the journalist expressed the opinion that the Russian leader is so lonely that there is no one to tell him how Russian people live, how the freedom of expression is suppressed, how corrupt bureaucrats are and how poor people are. Poptsov was dismissed from the post of general director of the ... >> full
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MosNews: BBC Knocked Off Air In Russia After Legal Dispute
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posted by FerrasB on as Freedom and Fear
BBC Knocked off Air in Russia After Legal Dispute Created: 23.12.2005 11:05 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:05 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135325114)); </SCRIPT> , 5 hours 44 minutes ago MosNews A legal dispute has knocked the BBC’s Russian service off the air in Moscow, officials said on Thursday, although the corporation insisted all its licenses were in order. Konstantin Eggert, Moscow bureau editor for the BBC’s Russian service, said the company which broadcasts the corporation’s programs had lost its license, causing it to lose its medium wave transmission in the Russian capital. “We officially have a right to broadcast. We were not the ones who lost the right to broadcast, it was the service provider,” he was quoted by Reuters as saying. Grigory Kliger, head of the Oktod operating company, said the license for the frequency had run out and that the documents needed to renew it had not been ready in time. According to the Russian agencies ... >> full
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