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Final exams recently ended in Turkmenistan’s schools. This year is the last that graduates receive certificates for 10 years of education. From now on, Turkmen schools are shifting to a 9-year system. This year already, in all the country’s schools, 9th graders as well as 10th graders received their high school diplomas. Thus 15-16 year old teenagers appeared on the threshold of independent life, though each graduate is far from knowing where to go from here. Full Story...Not Quite Pluralism
Today’s round-table organized by the Committee for Civic Rights was intended as a collective answer of public organizations to the Kremlin-sponsored bill “On Countering Extremist Activities.” The Committee reckoned that everyone would attend, from liberals to ultra-nationalists, and host Andrei Semenov gave advance notice that the opportunity to speak would be given to each group in turn - democrats after communists, and orthodox representatives after atheists, and warned that individuals using expressions like “Kike-Masonic plot”, “proletarian cattle” and the like would be removed from the hall. Full Story...Anti-Facist Fascism
As of yet, it doesn't actually exist. However, the symptoms of danger seem clear enough. The danger lies in the fact that fascism can come to the country under disguise of anti-fascist slogans Full Story...Would delegates rise to the bait?
Turkmenistan is getting ready for a Council of Elders (or Khalk Maslakhaty, in Turkmen), slated for early August. This legislative body is the highest authority in the country, higher than parliament (Mejlis) and higher than president himself. Council of Elders is responsible for making major state decisions like … nomination of Saparmurat Niyazov for the Hero of Turkmenistan title, extension of his presidential powers for life, and proclaiming his book “Rukhname” to be a national spiritual guide-book. Full Story... Judge in a Dirty Robe
 The Russian Supreme Court can put its foot down on arbitrary decisions by local courts, but is totally powerless in the face of police arbitrariness. At least, the court could not take a stand while reviewing Olga Kitova's July 3 appeal of the Belgorod Regional Court. After throwing out the basic charges against the "Belgorodskaya Pravda" correspondent, who was actually convicted for impartial journalistic investigation, the Supreme Court judge upheld a guilty verdict brought against the frail 47-year old woman for ... beating-up a group of police officers. Full Story...Cuba fears a mass exodus
 Since Cuban president Fidel Castro pledged to dissolve the migratory pact between Cuba and the United States, rumors of a forthcoming mass exodus have swept the country. Huge numbers of people, mostly youth, are coming every night to the Havana waterfront to wait “for something to happen.” Some even stay overnight, standing guard, to warn the others if “something” finally happens. Full Story...Masochism, literature and Putin
 The «Iduschiye Vmeste» («Walking Together») party made their debut in May 2001 staging a 10 000-strong meeting to celebrate the anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s reign. Boys and girls of student age wore T-shirts with the President’s effigies, playing about at Vasilyevsky Spusk near Kremlin, hugging and responding in expletives to orations of the speakers who denounced the Western values. A year later, on June 27, some 200 young demonstrators strolled through Moscow ready to pounce upon something Russian this time around – to wit, a trendy post-modern penman Vladimir Sorokin. Full Story...Secret defenders of the Nazis
Presumably no one in Russia will believe that the rise of racist organisations, riots in cities, assaults on people from the Caucasus and Africa, and swastikas painted on walls is a spontaneous and accidental phenomenon. Politicians and commentators continue to discuss who is behind it all. Today two young deputies from the “Union of Right Forces” (SPS) block in the Russian State Duma, Vladimir Semyonov and Vladimir Koptev-Dvornikov presented their view at a press conference in Moscow. Full Story...Putin and Stalin
 The reactions to the two personality cult campaigns that had been deployed on the domestic arena – V.V.Putin’s of 2002 and I.V.Stalin’s of 1937 – seem to be in a quite similar key.
At the June 24 press conference, a journalist of “Kursky Vestnik” newspaper inquired about Russian President’s attitude to the mounting cult of the Presidential personality in the country. According to the pressman, Putin’s portraits were put onto “calendars and Easter eggs”. Full Story... ”Double standards” of President Putin
Today’s meeting between Vladimir Putin and journalists at times resembled a talk between a “good king” and foot-messengers from the provinces who were traditionally informing against “bad boyards”. The journalists did not spare themselves in complaining about the blunders of police, governors and elections committees. The President, in total accordance with the traditions, promised to discuss the subjects with the prosecutor general and the chairman of the Central Elections Committee “without delay”. The moaners will soon see if such meetings could be effective. Should they ever be repeated… Full Story...[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] |
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