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Russian Politics
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Putin's Methods
Counterproductive in Russian Fight on Corruption and Terrorism |
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WILL GOVERNORS RESIGN
VOLUNTARILY? |
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Russian election reform meets
Euro standards - experts |
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Russia: Putin Signs Bill
Eliminating Direct Elections Of Governors |
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Liberals admit Russia not
ready for "street democracy" |
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CIVIL CONGRESS EXAMINES
PROSPECTS FOR RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY |
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3 Regions Reject the Kremlin's
Picks |
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REFORMS OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL
SYSTEM MUST NOT SPOIL RELATIONS WITH WEST |
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United Russia: rumors of its
death have been exaggerated |
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Fear Makes a Comeback |
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RUSSIAN STYLE
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH |
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NEW BILL ON PROCEDURES TO ELECT GOVERNORS PASSED IN 2ND READING |
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Political Opposition
Poised To Hit Radar Screen |
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Crafting Democracy:
How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change |
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President Putin's
Introductory Remarks at the VI National Congress of Judges |
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Putin Tells
Judiciary to Clean Up Its Act |
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PRESIDENT PUTIN
SPEAKS OUT ON JUDICIAL BRANCH'S INDEPENDENCE |
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Political Reform in
Russia -- An Alternative |
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WILL UNITED RUSSIA
RESEMBLE SOVIET UNION'S COMMUNIST PARTY? |
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Response to comment by Ray Finch (#8447) re: Putins reforms. |
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Comment re
8444-Sobell/ Putin's Reforms |
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Putins political
reforms need not be viewed as anti-democratic |
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Positive Feedback on Full
Volume |
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Russian
administration to set up three-party political system |
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NO PARTIES WITH LESS
THAN 50,000 MEMBERS WILL BE ALLOWED IN RUSSIA |
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Russia's lobbying
rates |
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IS MOSCOW READY TO
TONE DOWN POLITICAL REFORM ON THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S DEMAND? |
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APPOINTMENT OF MAYORS
POSTPONED? |
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Analysis: How Will
Russian Governors Be Appointed? |
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Electoral Reform Is
Bazaar |
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POLITICIANS AND
EXPERTS COMMENT ON SOME OF RUSSIAN REGIONS' RELUCTANCE TO APPROVE ELECTION
SYSTEM CHANGES |
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STATE DUMA PONDERS
RUSSIA'S FUTURE |
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Thousands at Rival
Election Rallies |
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THREE MYTHS ABOUT
RUSSIAN FEDERALISM |
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PRESIDENT'S
INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN POWER VERTICAL LEGAL |
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Putin aide assures
investors democracy not being curtailed in Russia |
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Russia Wars: The
Lost Hope |
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Election Official:
Russian Constitution Should Stay Unchanged for Next 10 Years |
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Yabloko Party Finds
Itself at a Crossroad |
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Many Russians say
authorities aren't threat to freedom - poll |
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WHAT WILL APPOINTED
GOVERNORS BE LIKE? |
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Rally held in
Russia's Tatarstan against Putin electoral reform plans |
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Russian liberal hints
independent MP Ryzhkov may lead "democratic coalition" |
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RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO
RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF STRATEGIC, RESEARCH, CULTURE AND EDUCATION FACILITIES |
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THE KREMLIN SETS UP LIBERAL PARTY |
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Analysis: Putin's
Secret Plan To Combat Corruption? |
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Russian reform will
always comply with Constitution - Putin |
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A Plan for
Reinventing the Wheel |
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Political Parties in
Crisis |
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Re: 8405
Hahn/Straus/Shenfield/Russian federalism |
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The Battle of the
Letters/JRL, #8409, 14 October 2004 |
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KOZAK: POWER
CENTRALIZATION - A TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MOVE |
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Overcoming Russia's
History |
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The Streamlining of
Loyalties |
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EXPERT: UNITED
RUSSIA-HOMELAND CONFRONTATION ABSURD |
| | President Putin's Interview
with the Chinese newspapers Renmin Ribao, Chinese Young Correspondent, and the
television channel Chinese Central Television Kremlin.Ru transcript; JRL #8408, Oct. 14, 2004. |
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Have Pity on President Putin |
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REMARKS BY VLADIMIR
RYZHKOV, DEPUTY OF THE STATE DUMA, AT THE CONFERENCE "GOVERNMENT REFORM IN
RUSSIA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" |
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REMARKS BY IRINA
KHAKAMADA AT THE CONFERENCE "GOVERNMENT REFORM IN RUSSIA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" |
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REMARKS BY GEORGY
SATAROV AT THE CONFERENCE "GOVERNMENT REFORM IN RUSSIA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" |
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REMARKS BY BORIS
NADEZHDIN AT THE CONFERENCE "GOVERNMENT REFORM IN RUSSIA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" |
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REMARKS BY YEVGENY
YASIN AT THE CONFERENCE "GOVERNMENT REFORM IN RUSSIA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?" |
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Re Ware and Peter
Lavelle JRL/8401 |
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Re: JRL#8396/ Kraus |
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Judges Who Lost Their
Jobs Speak Out |
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BILL ON NEW GOVERNOR
REPLACEMENT ROUTINE MAY BE CHANGED |
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Constitutional
Deadlock |
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Russian Democracy |
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Forget About the
Constitution |
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PARTIES TO BE FORCED
TO BECOME MASS ASSOCIATIONS |
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Rolling Back
Democracy |
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The Case Against a
Lapdog Judiciary |
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POLITICIANS ON
JUDICIAL REFORM |
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The Return of
Paternalism |
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Bill Puts President
in Charge of Judges |
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Liberal Party Warns
of Russias Return to Soviet Times |
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Bill Lets Putin Hire
and Fire Governors |
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A pig in a poke:
Russian regional leaders to be elected no more |
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An Open Letter to
the Heads of State and Government Of the European Union and NATO |
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Russian official
clarifies provisions of Putin's bill on governors |
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VLADIMIR PUTIN TUNING
UP DEMOCRATIC PIANO |
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KREMLIN DOES NOT
CONSIDER WEST'S CONCERN OVER NEW GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION PROCEDURE GROUNDED |
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SURKOV: REGIONAL
GOVERNMENTS TO SHAPE UP AFTER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PATTERN |
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EXPERTS ON NUANCES OF
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION REFORM |
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The 'living dead'
try to retrieve Yeltsin's past |
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President Putin's
Speech at the World Congress of News Agencies |
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President Putin's
Final words at the World Congress of News Agencies |
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On Putin's proposed
governmental reforms |
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Party of Stem Cells |
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What is the true
image of Russia? |
| | Trading Blood for
Money By Pavel Felgenhauer, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8376, Sept. 21, 2004. |
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Russia after Beslan |
| | Last Bastion of
Democracy By Nikolai Petrov, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8375, Sept. 20, 2004. |
| | PUTIN REEXAMINED From Mike Averko; JRL #8375, Sept. 20, 2004. |
| | ELECTION REFORM:
WHAT WILL RUSSIAN POLITICAL SPIN DOCTORS DO? From RIA Novosti; JRL #8375, Sept. 20, 2004. |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev
and Boris Yeltsin Speak out Against Putins Reforms From MosNews.com; JRL #8371, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | RUSSIA AT THE
TURNING POINT From RIA Novosti; JRL #8372, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | Chess Player
Kasparov Calls Putin Exemplary Stalinist From MosNews.com; JRL #8372, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | WHY ARE SO MANY
ELECTED LEADERS IN RUSSIA READY TO GIVE UP ON ELECTIONS? By Julie A. Corwin, from RFE/RL; JRL #8371, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | PUTIN'S
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM CATCHES RIGHTS UNAWARES From RIA Novosti; JRL #8372, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | Governors Look
for the Silver Lining By Francesca Mereu, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8371, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | WILL RUSSIAN
PUBLIC SUPPORT PUTIN'S PLAN TO APPOINT GOVERNORS? From RIA Novosti; JRL #8371, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | GIVING MORE
MUSCLE TO AUTHORITIES - OPINIONS DIVIDE From RIA Novosti; JRL #8372, Sept. 17, 2004. |
| | Paving Way for a
Presidential Coup d'Etat By Andrei Piontkovsky, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8370, Sept. 16, 2004. |
| | WHY PUNISH THE
GOVERNORS FOR BESLAN? By Angela Charlton, from RIA Novosti; JRL #8370, Sept. 16, 2004. |
| | Secretary Colin L.
Powell: Interview by Arshad Mohammed and Saul Hudson of Reuters [excerpt] From U.S. State Department e-mail news service; JRL #8368, Sept. 15, 2004. |
| | MINISTER: US
STATE SECRETARY'S CLAIMS ABOUT INFRINGEMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA UNFOUNDED From RIA Novosti; JRL #8369, Sept. 15, 2004. |
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Papers Say Kremlin
Mounting a 'Coup' |
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Putin's Reforms Are
Dangerous for Russia |
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The Kremlin tightens
its grip on the economy and the political system |
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Basayev Puts Russia
in a No-Win Situation |
| | ELECTIONS BY PARTY
LISTS CAN BE SPREAD TO REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS From RIA Novosti; JRL #8369, Sept. 15, 2004. |
| | A Lurch in the
Wrong Direction Moscow Times editorial; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | UNITY AND
INTEGRITY OF RUSSIA - PUTIN'S TOP PRIORITY From RIA Novosti; JRL #8366, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | Russian TV News
Coverage of Putin's Speech From Lyndon Allin; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | Putin: Scrap
Popular Vote for Governors By Nabi Abdullaev, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | RUSSIAN POLITICAL
ACTIVISTS DOWN ON PUTIN'S GUBERNATORIAL REFORM From RIA Novosti; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | Gorbachev
undecided over Putin's electoral initiative From Interfax; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | RUSSIAN POLITICAL
SYSTEM REFORM: EXPERT OPINIONS From RIA Novosti; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | EXPERTS COMMENT ON
PUTIN'S STATEMENT AT GOVERNMENT SESSION From RIA Novosti; JRL #8365, Sept. 14, 2004. |
| | Liberals Condemn
Putins Proposals on Political Changes From Mosnews.com; JRL #8364, Sept. 13, 2004. |
| | PUTIN SUGGESTS A
LARGE-SCALE POLITICAL REFORM From RIA Novosti; JRL #8364, Sept. 13, 2004. |
| | Putin says Russia
must be united to face up to terrorism From Interfax; JRL #8364, Sept. 13, 2004. |
| | ELECTION
COMMISSION AMENDS ELECTORAL LEGISLATION From RIA Novosti; JRL #8346, Aug. 28, 2004. |
| | FRADKOV ON
RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT MEMBERS From RIA Novosti; JRL #8346, Aug. 28, 2004. |
| | Analysis: A
Hard-Line Agenda For Putin's Second Term (Part Two) By Victor Yasmann, from RFE/RL; JRL #8343, Aug. 26, 2004. |
| | Analysis: A
Hard-Line Agenda For Putin's Second Term (Part One) By Victor Yasmann, from RFE/RL; JRL #8342, Aug. 25, 2004. |
| | The Short Time
Horizon in the Russian Mind From Vladimir Shlapentokh; JRL #8338, Aug. 23, 2004. |
| | Russian Government
to Approve Putin-Friendly Budget From MosNews.com; JRL #8338, Aug. 23, 2004. |
| | Bill Lets
Bureaucrats Lead Political Parties By Francesca Mereu, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8321, Aug. 9, 2004. |
| | Interior Ministry
Reform Is Just Starting By Nikolai Petrov, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8321, Aug. 9, 2004. |
| | The Kremlin Shows
Its True Face By Yevgenia Albats, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8310, Aug. 1, 2004. |
| | State Will Tell
What It Is Doing for a Fee By Francesca Mereu, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8310, Aug. 1, 2004. |
| | Open Season for
Sloth and Sleaze Moscow Times editorial; JRL #8308, July 31, 2004. |
| | Kremlin provides
absolute security for top officials It is not ruled out that the Russian president will soon fly to work by helicopter From Pravda.Ru; JRL #8304, July 23, 2004. |
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PROTEST WITHOUT
EXTREMISM: INTERVIEW WITH IGOR BUNIN, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE POLITICAL
TECHNOLOGIES CENTER |
| | Lonely at the Top By Anders Aslund , featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8289, July 13, 2004. |
| | President Putin's
Address at the plenary session of ambassadors and permanent representatives of
Russia From RIA Novosti; JRL #8290, July 13, 2004. |
| | Putin Tells
Diplomats to Do PR for Russia By Oksana Yablokova, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8290, July 13, 2004. |
| | PUTIN HIGHLIGHTS
RUSSIA'S BUDGET PROBLEMS From RIA Novosti; JRL #8290, July 13, 2004. |
| | PUTIN'S BUDGET
MESSAGE ON TAX REFORM From RIA Novosti; JRL #8290, July 13, 2004. |
| | RADIO INTERVIEW
WITH YABLOKO LEADER GRIGORY YAVLINSKY From FedNews.Ru; JRL #8286, July 9, 2004. |
| | RE: Russia's
liberals mull merging From Eugene Ivanov; JRL #8262, June 21, 2004. |
| | Social Spending
Takes a Back Seat By Oksana Yablokova and Francesca Mereu, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8262, June 21, 2004. |
| | KPRF AND ITS
LEADER ZYUGANOV IN THE MIRROR OF PUBLIC OPINION From RIA Novosti; JRL #8262, June 21, 2004. |
| | MOSCOW MARKS DAY
OF RUSSIA WITH PAGEANTRY ON RED SQUARE From RIA Novosti; JRL #8251, June 13, 2004. |
| | PRESIDENT PUTIN
TAKES PART IN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS ON MOSCOW'S RED SQUARE From RIA Novosti; JRL #8251, June 13, 2004. |
| | Poker Face: Two
new books dig beneath the surface of Vladimir Putin the dictator -- or is it
Vladimir Putin the democrat? By William Flemming, from Context by The Moscow Times; JRL #8247, June 10, 2004. |
| | Bill Hands Ivanov
Full Control of Army By Simon Saradzhyan, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8247, June 10, 2004. |
| | Russias Present
Condition: Why Putin Couldnt Lose Panel discussion featuring Gideon Lichfield, Masha Lipman, Adam Michnik, David Remnick, and Nina L. Khrushcheva, at New School University; JRL #8247, June 10, 2004. |
| | Putin's
Centripetal Reform By Nikolai Petrov, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8242, June 7, 2004. |
| | DEMOCRACY RUSSIAN
STYLE From RIA Novosti; JRL #8239, June 5, 2004. |
| | RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT FOR SECRET DECISION-MAKING. EXPERTS BAFFLED From RIA Novosti; JRL #8225; May 27, 2004. |
| | Putin Seeks
Control of Referendums By Francesca Mereu, from The Moscow Times; JRL #8222; May 25, 2004. |
| | Re:
8220-Higgins/Reform From Dimofte Catalin; JRL #8222; May 25, 2004. |
| | Russian Communist
Party in crisis By Petr Ermilin, from Pravda.Ru; JRL #8222; May 25, 2004. |
| | Gorbachev resigns
as Russian Social Democrat leader From Interfax; JRL #8222; May 25, 2004. |
| | PRESS CONFERENCE
WITH SERGEI IVANENKO, GARRI KASPAROV, BORIS NEMTSOV AND OTHER COMMITTEE-2008
OFFICIALS From FedNews.Ru; JRL #8218; May 21, 2004. |
| | RE: 8209 - Lilia
Shevtsova/ Conservatism From Eugene Ivanov; JRL #8216; May 20, 2004. |
| | Authorities are
afraid of direct democracy From Pravda.Ru; JRL #8215; May 20, 2004. |
| | The Truth About
Official Conservatism By Lilia Shevtsova, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8209; May 16, 2004. |
| | Linguistic
Highlights of the Putin Presidency By Lilia Shevtsova, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8209; May 16, 2004. |
| | Putin's man in
Siberia urges reform to lessen dependence on state budget From RIA Novosti; JRL #8208; May 15, 2004. |
| | Exposing a Kremlin
Myth By Stephen Schmida, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8206; May 13, 2004. |
| | Russia's Liberal
Project: A Political Obituary By Stephen Schmida, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8206; May 13, 2004. |
| | The Real State of the Nation From Sergei Roy; JRL #8176; April 21, 2004. |
| | RADIO INTERVIEW
WITH YEGOR GAIDAR, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ECONOMY IN TRANSITION From FedNews.Ru; JRL #8175; April 20, 2004. |
| | FORMER YOUNG
REFORMER TAKES TIME OUT TO RECOVER BEFORE NEW DUMA ELECTIONS From RIA Novosti; JRL #8176; April 21, 2004. |
| | Reforming The
Russian Bureaucracy: A Progress Report From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, by Julie A. Corwin; JRL #8171; April 17, 2004. |
| | First step to
fight corruption: President Putin raised income for himself and government
officials From Pravda.Ru; JRL #8171; April 17, 2004. |
| | Flogging a
Worn-Out Nag By Andrei Piontkovsky, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8173; April 19, 2004. |
| | Crisis of
Khodorkovskyism By Boris Kagarlitsky, featured in The Moscow Times; JRL #8171; April 16, 2004. |
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Grigorii Golosov - Political Parties in the Regions of Russia From Deborah Knox, re: new book; JRL #8169; April 16, 2004. |
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