JRL Digest: The Pulse of Russia July 20, 2012
7.20.12 - addressing JRL 2012-131
The Bashar al-Assad regime teeters, as Russia is poised to lose its last Arab ally, which would leaved Iran its last remaining Middle Eastern ally ... Russia slams the West over Syria ... Russia claims to have detained five suspects in connection with the assassination of a Muslim cleric ... the attack on Muslim leaders in Tatarstan is a first, with violence seemingly spreading from other areas ... the Middle East is said to be rife for cataclysm ... a court orders the all-girl punk rock band Pussy Riot jailed at least into 2013 for their anti-Putin protest at a Russian Orthodox Cathedral
... the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending a U.S. military contract with a Russian defense firm ...
file photoOne commentator addressing the Magnitsky Act calls asset freezes and visa bans as useful tools against wrongdoers, while another criticizes U.S. human rights legislation in this instance
... Russia-NATO engagement over missile defense reportedly is becoming more positive to Russian perspectives, as cooperation also emerges over transit for the war in Afghanistan ...
Vladimir Putin met with Duma party leaders ... Putin refers to "destructive forces" of liberalization ... according to one commentator, the Kremlin appears to be building a legal framework for authoritarian rule ... according to a similar source, Putin's regime has run out of ideas, and is compensating with nasty tactics ... meanwhile, a pro-Kremlin commentator argues that the opposition is to blame for crackdowns ...
The Moscow Times is monitoring the latest stories in Russian-language newspapers ... some argue that concern over branding entities as "foreign agents" represents a kind of "spy mania" by the ruling party ... mass media could be branded as foreign agents just like nonprofit NGO's ... media constraints are said to be the result of political pressure ...
The Russian Justice Initiative civil rights group is seeking to have a ban against it lifted ... sociology is appraising the protest movement ... Kremlin youth purport to engage the opposition ... Alexeyeva is interviewed ...
Putin is publicly resisting calls to liberalize the Russian energy sector ... WTO accession is getting mixed reviews, with cheaper goods considered just a distant prospect ... bank privatizations are at issue, as are what one source calls "the finance oligarchy" ...
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The Bashar al-Assad regime teeters, as Russia is poised to lose its last Arab ally, which would leaved Iran its last remaining Middle Eastern ally ... Russia slams the West over Syria ... Russia claims to have detained five suspects in connection with the assassination of a Muslim cleric ... the attack on Muslim leaders in Tatarstan is a first, with violence seemingly spreading from other areas ... the Middle East is said to be rife for cataclysm ... a court orders the all-girl punk rock band Pussy Riot jailed at least into 2013 for their anti-Putin protest at a Russian Orthodox Cathedral
... the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending a U.S. military contract with a Russian defense firm ...
file photoOne commentator addressing the Magnitsky Act calls asset freezes and visa bans as useful tools against wrongdoers, while another criticizes U.S. human rights legislation in this instance
... Russia-NATO engagement over missile defense reportedly is becoming more positive to Russian perspectives, as cooperation also emerges over transit for the war in Afghanistan ...
Vladimir Putin met with Duma party leaders ... Putin refers to "destructive forces" of liberalization ... according to one commentator, the Kremlin appears to be building a legal framework for authoritarian rule ... according to a similar source, Putin's regime has run out of ideas, and is compensating with nasty tactics ... meanwhile, a pro-Kremlin commentator argues that the opposition is to blame for crackdowns ...
The Moscow Times is monitoring the latest stories in Russian-language newspapers ... some argue that concern over branding entities as "foreign agents" represents a kind of "spy mania" by the ruling party ... mass media could be branded as foreign agents just like nonprofit NGO's ... media constraints are said to be the result of political pressure ...
The Russian Justice Initiative civil rights group is seeking to have a ban against it lifted ... sociology is appraising the protest movement ... Kremlin youth purport to engage the opposition ... Alexeyeva is interviewed ...
Putin is publicly resisting calls to liberalize the Russian energy sector ... WTO accession is getting mixed reviews, with cheaper goods considered just a distant prospect ... bank privatizations are at issue, as are what one source calls "the finance oligarchy" ...