Archive for Mig Greengard
Editor of theotherrussia.org.
More on Nashi
Close on the heels of a similarly-themed item in its sister paper, the IHT, today the NY Times has a piece by Steven Lee Myers on the Nashi Putin youth cult. The western media is finally taking an interest in peeling back the iron veil of the Putin regime. When our Dissenters’ Marches began last […]
Jul 7, 2007 | Continued
2nd Other Russia Conference Underway
This weekend sees the 2nd Other Russia Conference in Moscow. The principal orders of business are to review the successes of the past year and to discuss the selection process to determine a united opposition candidate for the March 2008 presidential elections. The other Russia movement was launched one year ago and in that time […]
Jul 7, 2007 | Continued
Inside the Putin Youth Cult
Michael Hammerschlag has an insightful item called “Putin’s Children” on the Kremlin-funded Nashi youth group in the International Herald Tribune. The 120,000-odd Putin Youth members are perhaps the most creepy demonstration of Putin’s “Back to the Future” cult of personality – youth groups created, supported, and used by the Kremlin to harass, bully and intimidate […]
Jul 6, 2007 | Continued
Kasparov on Other Russia Conference and Kasyanov Split
The past political season was, undoubtedly, successful both for the United Civil Front in particular and for The Other Russia as a whole. The “Dissenters’ Marches,” and another activities of the opposition coalition have clearly shown to Russian society and the world that political force independent of the Kremlin is capable of resisting the pernicious […]
Jul 4, 2007 | Continued
Dissent in Art
The excellent web magazine Slate has a compendium of political cartoons from around the world, regularly updated. As the saying goes, a picture is often worth a thousand press releases. These below and many others on Putin are found in the Europe index at Slate. The first two are by Yuri Cherepanov, whose cartoons for […]
Jul 3, 2007 | Continued
Birds of a Feather Dept.
What do Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Vladimir Putin have in common? Many things, in fact. All three lead increasingly repressive petro-states whose regimes are kept in power by the high price of oil and the power it purchases. All are dealing heavily in the world of armaments, with Russia selling weaponry and technology to […]
Jun 29, 2007 | Continued
Rights in Russia: Pushing Back
Recent developments in the Russian courts and parliament make it clear that the Russian opposition movement is having an impact. First we saw a more respectful security presence for our marches in June. We were allowed to march in relative peace, although intimidation and harassment of our activists and organizers continued prior to the marches. […]
Jun 28, 2007 | Continued
Hudson Institute on USA-Russia Relations
The Hudson Institute has released a new report on the eve of the Bush-Putin summit at the American president’s residence in Kennebunkport, Maine. Four respected experts from the seven-member study group issued a joint statement that led with the remark, “Russia is reverting to patterns of behavior characteristic of the Soviet Union.” The report’s recommendations […]
Jun 26, 2007 | Continued
Moscow Renaissance Hotel Refuses to Host Other Russia Conference
On June 7, 2007, the Other Russia contacted the Renaissance Hotel [owned by the Marriott Group] in Moscow to reserve space for the second Other Russia Conference, scheduled for July 7-8. They replied with a price quote and after brief negotiations we awaited their final confirmation. Instead, on June 14th, we received a rejection of […]
Jun 19, 2007 | Continued
Lantos on Communism and Putin
US Representative Tom Lantos has long been one of the strongest and most outspoken western lawmakers when it comes to standing up for democracy and individual freedoms around the world. Lantos, a Democrat and now the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, is a Holocaust survivor who later fled the Communist takeover […]
Jun 18, 2007 | Continued