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25 Jun 2010, 12:14 pm
A year ago, American negotiators were thrown off balance by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's assertion that Russia's customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan had priority over its WTO accession, but Russia has now made clear that WTO entry comes first and should proceed on its own. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
"We haven't seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States," former president Vladimir Putin said in January. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 11:28 am
The collapse in BP’s share price suggests that he has convinced the markets that he is an American version of Vladimir Putin, willing to harry firms into doing his bidding. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 2:04 pm
The other bill under consideration has the blessings of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Unite Russia Party ("URP"), and, Narusova claims, would amend 60 percent of current media law, imposing harsh restrictions.The URP bill, which the Russian Parliament passed in its first reading last week, empowers Federal Security Agency (FSB) officers to question journalists and censor "extremist" information. [read post]
25 May 2010, 7:58 am
[JURIST] Former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov [BBC profile] on Monday testified that former president Vladimir Putin [official website; JURIST news archive] ordered the arrest of former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] for political reasons. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 10:35 am
” At the end of the piece, the authors point to an anecdote involving Pope John Paul II and Vladimir Putin: When Vladimir Putin visited Vatican City some years ago, he offered to invite the pope to Russia. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 1:30 pm
Both the Chinese Communist party and the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin made a different offer to their peoples — you keep out of trouble, and we will give you specific and circumscribed freedoms, along with strong economic growth. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:22 am
“Standing in the cellar of the KGB prison, admiring the ingenuously designed torture cells, retracing the final steps of the prisoners on their journey from the condemned cells to the execution yard, it’s impossible not to think of Vladimir Putin bemoaning the fall of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:28 am
&p_url=20100304-1/en/ –The “so-called ‘extra-systemic’ opposition have chosen to use the Internet to exercise their civil and political rights to circulate an 870-word petition calling for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ouster of the from any position of power in the country. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 8:08 am
" Here's Vladimir Putin on what he doesn't like about Russian school textbooks: Many school books are written by people who work to get foreign grants. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 12:27 pm
It never pays to underestimate Vladimir Putin. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 8:49 am
by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty Source: Rianovosti 15/02/201016:32 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed on Monday introducing the Glonass navigation system throughout the country’s regions and getting it onto “commercial rails. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 3:30 pm
And these figures might understate the problem: they don't include, for example, an executive who installs a crony or relative to take his or her place upon retirement, or one who simply diverts power to a new office and assumes that upon retirement (in both cases, think Vladimir Putin).Measuring all reported instances of executive overstay, the authors found (among other things) that older leaders were more likely to overstay than younger ones, leaders with military… [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 11:24 am
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has offered his take on the necessity of this law to protect consumers and small retail chains from dominant retailers and “stabilize” trade amongst firms in the food supply chain. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 8:56 am
[JURIST] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [official website, in Russian; JURIST news archive] on Saturday called [transcript, in Russian] for a new age of human rights and safety in the embattled Caucasus region of Russia, where the killings of journalists and human rights activists have become increasingly common. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 12:06 pm
But I have been wanting to say a word about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the ban on American chickens. [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 9:20 am
Look at the recent dust-up over chicken in Russia - "Putin Wants Poultry Supply Secure by '15:" Russia may stop importing poultry by 2015, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday, backing a ban imposed on U.S. chicken imports at the beginning of the year. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 4:00 am
According to Interfax yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that a bill has been drafted to deal with transferring state-owned religious property back to the Russian Orthodox Church. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 8:28 am
Vladimir Putin & the Rule of Law in Russia, 36 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 511, 511-58 (2008) (lead article). [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 4:15 am
The paper first cites a speech by Kirrill to the Russian Academy of State Service in which he argued that Russia should be judged by its unique values and not by "alien" European criteria-- a position that echos the views of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. [read post]
