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01/02/12--15:37: PERESTROIKA 2.0 CONTINUES: RUSSIA’S DECEMBER THAW AND THE RETURN OF POLITICS (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY by Gordon M. Hahn December was especially warm in Moscow this year. No, I am not talking about the weather but oddly enough about Perestroika 2.0 and the politics of the tandem’s ongoing thaw or liberalization. Due to their...


01/06/12--23:14: MULTI-CONFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HYBRID-REGIME RUSSIA (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY by Gordon Hahn The cacophony of condemnation that comprises U.S. mainstream media’s coverage of Russian society and politics does not reflect the ambiguous nature of Russia’s relatively soft authoritarian form of rule. Sometimes referred to as ‘hybrid’ regimes, Russia’s...


01/06/12--23:18: EMERGING MARKET FUND FLOWS: RISING OIL PRICE MAY AGAIN BOOST RUSSIA FLOWS (chan 1556792)

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS by Chris Weafer Reticent optimism. Investors started the New Year with a net aggregate investment of $465 mln into emerging market (EM) funds in the week ended Wednesday according to data collected by EPFR Global. That is up...


01/06/12--23:23: ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT NO.49, 30 DECEMBER 2011 (chan 1556792)

by Gordon M. Hahn CONTENTS RUSSIA ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF JIHADI ATTACKS, JIHADI-RELATED INCIDENTS, AND ATTENDANT CASUALTIES IN THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF 2011 CE GALGAICHE VILAIYAT QADI ABU DUDZHAN POSTS SECOND VIDEO IN SEVERAL MONTHS 2011: YEAR OF...


01/11/12--21:32: GLASNOST’ 2.0, PERESTROIKA 2.0, AND THE NASCENT WHITE REVOLUTION (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY by Gordon M. Hahn In the mid-1980s, the USSR’s last General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a policy of glasnost or openness in the Soviet media that allowed discussion of previously taboo topics. Gorbachev gradually expanded that policy and others...


01/14/12--16:51: ALEXANDER LITVINENKO: THE WHO-DONE-IT-FRAUD -- WAS HE REALLY MURDERED? (chan 1556792)

by William Dunkerley The ubiquitous "who murdered Alexander Litvinenko" news story has turned out to be a fraud. In late 2006, world media outlets were reporting that the former KGB spy was murdered on orders of Vladimir Putin. It was...


01/19/12--12:40: RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP (chan 1556792)

by Patrick Armstrong Putin platform. An article in Izvestiya lays out the outlines of Putin’s election platform. And perhaps we have a clue as to why he thinks he must return as President. It’s one of the most concise statements...


01/20/12--20:02: ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT NO.50, 25 JANUARY 2012 (chan 1556792)

by Gordon M. Hahn CONTENTS RUSSIA ТРИУМФ ИМАРАТА КАВКАЗ: Имарат Кавказ как Уникальная Фундаменталистская Модель - Автор - ИСЛАМ ТЕКУШЕВ (in Russian, English translation forthcoming) MORE VIDEOS FROM DAGESTAN VILAIYAT AMIRS AND QADIS CE-AFFILIATED REPORTS NUMBER OF JIHADI ATTACKS AND...


01/23/12--22:11: CAUGHT IN TURBULENCE (chan 1556792)

REPRINTS Strategic Culture Foundation by Elena Ponomareva The world has entered the era of thorough transformation. Geopolitical landscape is radically evolving, and those changes are accompanied by the growing turbulence both globally and regionally”, said Russian diplomacy chief Sergey Lavrov...


01/24/12--11:10: THE RESURRECTION OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA AND THE RISE OF RUSSIA'S PROTEST MOVEMENT (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY By Gordon M. Hahn Historically, the intelligentsia has held a special place in society, that of bearing the national conscience and democratic ideals. Both in Russia and elsewhere, the rise of civil society and a protest movement usually is...


02/02/12--14:25: RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP (chan 1556792)

by Patrick Armstrong Candidates. The rules say that nominees of parties in the Duma are easily registered. So Putin (United Russia), Mironov (Just Russia), Zhirinovsky (LDPR) and Zyuganov (KPRF) were all registered early. Independents must produce two million signatures (a...


02/05/12--22:13: MAINSTREAM MEDIA JUST CAN’T GET PERESTROIKA 2.0 (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY by Gordon M. Hahn The latest evidence suggests the U.S. mainstream media still just can’t or willfully refuses to ‘get it’ when it comes to Russia’s new reform era – dubbed here variously as ‘Medvedev’s thaw’, ‘the tandem’s thaw,’...


02/05/12--22:19: PROBLEMS OF PUTINISM (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY by Gordon M. Hahn Russian Prime Minister and would-be third-time president Vladimir Putin has challenges ahead of him. Most of them are rooted in several categories that could have been avoided. First, there is concern that Putin went too...


02/06/12--18:39: WHO YA GONNA BELIEVE... (chan 1556792)

by Patrick Armstrong The Associated Press or your lyin’ eyes? AP reported Saturday’s demonstrations in Moscow as follows. For the anti-Putin (”For Clean Elections”) demonstration in Bolotnaya Square: “The protest — which drew 120,000 people, according to organizers”. The pro-Putin...


02/08/12--11:43: ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT NO.51, 8 FEBRUARY 2012 (chan 1556792)

by Gordon M. Hahn RUSSIA CE AMIR UMAROV DECLARES MORATORIUM ON ATTACKS TARGETTING CIVILIANS MAJOR CLASH BETWEEN CE NV MUJAHEDIN AND SILOVIKI IN VEDENO, CHECHNYA AMIR OF CE’S GALGAICHE VILAIYAT IS KILLED DAGESTAN VILAIYAT’S KIZLYAR SECTOR HIT HARD CE-AFFILIATED REPORTS...


02/08/12--11:50: RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES: PUSHING TENSIONS TO THE LIMIT? (chan 1556792)

REPRINTS STRATFOR, February 6, 2012 Summary As Russia and the United States prepare for their presidential elections, tensions between the countries are growing. The central point of contention is U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) plans. Russia has several levers, including...


02/09/12--13:58: RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP (chan 1556792)

by Patrick Armstrong Silent majority. United Russia is not a party to get excited about. It’s made up of apparatchiks who like power and all that it brings. No one who votes for it is proud of doing so. Its...


02/13/12--15:17: ALEXANDER LITVINENKO: THE RUSSIAN SPY STORY UNRAVELED - IT TURNS OUT HE WASN'T A SPY (chan 1556792)

ROPV CONTRIBUTORS by William Dunkerley The worldwide media have been caught fabricating facts in the Alexander Litvinenko spy story. A new video shows that the famous spy never was a spy. But in late 2006, reports naming Litvinenko a former...


02/16/12--17:13: U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISTORTS RUSSIA'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA (AND MORE) (chan 1556792)

COMMENTARY By Gordon M. Hahn A recent article by Alessandra Stanley in the NYT may have broken all records when it comes to the U.S. mainstream media’s grandiose efforts to distort the Russian reality and hide the reforms that have...


02/20/12--21:42: ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT, NO.52, 17 FEBRUARY 2012 (chan 1556792)

by Gordon M. Hahn CONTENTS RUSSIA CAUCASUS EMIRATE’S DAGESTAN NETWORK AMIR ‘SALIKH’ IBRAGIMKHALIL DAUDOV KILLED THE REVITALIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS EMIRATE’S OVKBK ISLAM TEKUSHEV, TRIUMPH OF THE CAUCASUS EMIRATE: The Caucasus Emirate as a Special Ethno-Fundamentalist Model IIPER is written...