Archive for Danila
Medvedev to Business: Stop Whimpering
At a meeting on the development of the Magadan Oblast, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told representatives of the gold-mining industry to stop “whimpering.”
Sep 24, 2008 | Continued
Russian State Hints at Plans for a New Youth TV Channel
Russia’s 2×2 channel, which is under threat of losing its license for broadcasting cartoons deemed offensive, may be replaced by a state-run channel aimed at specifically at children.
Sep 24, 2008 | Continued
Situation in Ingushetia Threatens All of Russia – Alexeyeva
Human right activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva speaks on the situation in Ingushetia, where disappearances and killings happen on a daily basis. The atmosphere of fear, she says, is comparable to Chechnya, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Sep 22, 2008 | Continued
Russian Channel Bows to Pressure and Cuts Cartoons
The Russian 2×2 television channel has bowed to state pressure, and will pull 12 animated series from its lineup as it awaits a court decision. The offending cartoons include the Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park.
Sep 19, 2008 | Continued
Putin Is Ruining Russia’s Economy – Kasparov
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov links the Russian stock market collapse to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev. “Until Russia has a government that is accountable to its citizens, no company or individual will be safe here,” he writes.
Sep 19, 2008 | Continued
Experts Comment on the Russian Market’s Downward Spiral
Russian experts were asked for their take on the consequences of Russia’s crashing stock market for the country’s economic and political future. Translation by theotherrussia.org
Sep 18, 2008 | Continued
Putin Slams Radio Station for Reporting on Georgian War
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally criticized one of the country’s only independent radio stations over its reporting of the war in Georgia. At a meeting with journalists, he told the editor-in-chief “You have to answer for this, Aleksei Alekseevich!”
Sep 17, 2008 | Continued
Russian TV Teaches “9/11 Truth”
On Friday, Russian State television aired an Italian documentary that questioned the official version of what happened on September 11th, 2001. Boris Sokolov questions the channel’s motives, asking why it chose to screen a one-sided film to 30 million viewers during prime time. Exclusive translation by theotherrussia.org.
Sep 16, 2008 | Continued
Drunken Soldiers Ignore Looting in South Ossetia – Rights Workers
The Memorial human rights group has released a new report on the war in South Ossetia, which finds Russian soldiers turning a blind eye as serious looting continues in the region.
Sep 12, 2008 | Continued
Russia Started the Georgian War – Analysis
A Russian blogger has analyzed an interview of a Russian company commander, who was wounded in the war over South Ossetia. Russian troops, he finds, were on South Ossetian soil before Georgia began shelling Tskhinvali.
Sep 11, 2008 | Continued