Putin on the Ritz

Putin on the Ritz He’s on a roll, like tanks against the Germans on the eastern front. Putin and the gang have steamed rolled Russian voters and plowed their way back into office. See the video....

Mr. Putin: End These Wrongs

As Vladimir Putin is embarking on his third term as Russia's president, it becomes useful to know what in Russia really needs changing. The tax system is OK; the property system is OK; the educational system is OK; but there are many things that are not OK. The worst...

Russia’s voting declared corrupted

Abnormality What is to be done about it? Whose business is this? Vlad is back. Russians are a tough lot, don’t you think. It has to do with the cold, I believe. Russians overthrew a Royal regime and replaced it...

Russia’s revolving door

Stale regime Using my criteria for electing Presidents, you would not see Putin back in government. You may never have seen him in office in the first place. He has no commercial business and economic development...

Nashi and Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Russian youth organization Nashi (meaning "Ours"), affiliated with Vladimir Putin, has listed Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a former Soviet dissident, as one of their enemies. My response to them is: How low can you go? I met Lyudmila Alexeyeva in 1988, when my family moved to...

Russia's little big man to return

Putin will run again He must be eating lots of yogurt and honey. At a still young age of 58, Vladimir Putin has much experience for certain. Continuity in government can be an asset. Functioning government is...

Putin's Last Days?

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Putin's Twilight   Putin is losing his grip on power. His allies – not least former KGB and current FSB operatives – are deserting him in droves, put off by his recent economic failures, the ...

Robert Amsterdam: beneath Khodorkovsky's propaganda

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, is in jail. Everybody agrees to say that his trial was far from being fair and no one knows if he’ll eventually be freed one day! Nonetheless, Khodorkovsky’s American lawyer (and PR guy) Robert...

"Something incredibly evil" about the Polish President's Death

Are any suspicions 'crazy'? I wondered. "Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili says “there is something incredibly evil” in the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his entourage this weekend." Poles...

Minnesota Judicial Tyrants play their ugly Apparatchik hand

This is an article I wrote comparing what is happening to a Minnesota Group seeking Judicial Reform and Accountability to KGB style tactics they are encountering. " A few years ago I bristled at a statement by then...

More of the Same for 2010?

More of the same for 2010 ‘toon.

Putin: Disclose Missile Defence Plans - Nuke Deal Held Up

Trust but verify, that seems to be the motto for Russia's PM Vladimir Putin.  On Tuesday Russian PM Vladimir Putin urged Washington to disclose its missile defence plans before talks on a new Strategic Arms...

Ill-omened Russian passenger train may not survive next time

NowPublic already reported today that several carriages came off the tracks as an express passenger train was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg in Russia.The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry...

Fire triggers blast at Russian ammunition depot: Atleast 2 killed

The Russian city of Ulyanovsk was rocked by blasts after a fire triggered multiple explosions at a military depot located on the outskirts of the city. The city is located in the Volga region. At least 2 people are...

Obama’s Misstep On Iran

Obama’s Misstep On Iran   We cannot listen to Iran’s Ahmadinejad posturing on the expansion of the Iranian atomic energy program, without recalling Obama’s dramatic reversal on the U.S. land based missile defense system in Europe only days ago. The blunder was not...

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