eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2008 | news, politics, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev
Looks like there's a decent possibility that Putin will be back officially running Russia at some point in the future.
Quoted: Fresh doubt was cast today on the future of Dmitri Medvedev as Russia's President after a report suggested that he could step down next year to pave the way for the return of Vladimir Putin.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2007 | Vladimir Putin, Russia, politics
Putin has been selected as Time's "Person of the Year."
Quoted: Vladimir Putin is no ordinary politician. He is charmless yet adored by his nation. He took a country in chaos and remade it in his own image: tough, aggrieved, defiant. An interview—and dinner—with the man who tamed Russia
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2007 | Russia, Vladimir Putin, politics
A really great piece by Sergei Kovalev on the mechanisms Putin uses to retain power.
Quoted: An article by Sergei Kovalev from The New York Review of Books, November 22, 2007
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