| 03/19/2018 08:10 | Russian vote problems: Ballot stuffing, coercion, gimmicks ( Washington Post )
MOSCOW â Social networks buzzed all day Sunday with videos, photos and firsthand accounts of voting violations in Russia's presidential election. ... Residents in Perm, Yekaterinburg and Moscow showed the AP messages from employers pressuring workers to vote and requiring them to report on ... |
| 03/19/2018 08:10 | Vladimir Putin wins fourth term with more than 70 per cent of vote: exit polls ( Telegraph.co.uk )
Vladimir Putin has won a fourth presidential term with more than 70 per cent of the vote, according to exit polls, a strong result following a campaign troubled by lack of interest and an opposition boycott. The public opinion foundation said 77 per cent had voted for Mr Putin, while state pollster WCIOM ... |
| 03/19/2018 08:10 | Putin on track for commanding win as Russians head to polls ( Ynetnews )
The incumbent Russian president is expected to receive around 70% of the vote, with many voters seeing no point in going to the ballots; in effort to lure them to the polls, .... Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday -- and to prove it. |
| 03/19/2018 08:10 | Russian voters pressured as Putin eyes new presidential term ( The Trentonian )
YEKATERINBURG, Russia >> Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether ... Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday â and to prove it. Messages were sent Friday to ... |
| 03/19/2018 08:10 | Putin wants big voter turnout ( The Courier )
YEKATERINBURG, Russia â Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether ... Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday â and to prove it. Messages were sent Friday to ... |
| 03/19/2018 00:25 | No surprises expected at polls as Putin urges Russia to choose 'right' future (The Australian)
Polls open in Russia as Putin eyes fourth presidential term - The Australian |
| 03/19/2018 00:25 | Russia readies to hand Putin new term in presidential vote ( Miami Herald )
Russian voters are gearing up for a presidential election Sunday that Vladimir Putin is guaranteed to win. They are facing unusually intense pressure to vote, to grant him a convincing new mandate to pursue his nationalist strategy. Candidates were barred from campaigning Saturday, but the message ... |
| 03/18/2018 16:20 | Russian presidential vote kicks off in Far East ( KHOU )
Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday â and to prove it. Messages were sent Friday to regional employees, warning that information about their voting habits would be submitted to management. Putin has traveled across Russia, ... |
| 03/18/2018 16:20 | Russians head to polls as Putin seeks fourth presidential term ( New York Daily News )
Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday â and to prove it. Messages were sent Friday to regional employees, warning that information about their voting habits would be submitted to management. Putin has traveled across Russia, ... |
| 03/18/2018 08:15 | Russian voters pressured as Putin eyes new presidential term ( WBOY-TV )
Voters in Russia's Perm region said they were coming under pressure from their employers to vote Sunday - and to prove it. Messages were sent Friday to regional employees, warning that information about their voting habits would be submitted to management. Putin has traveled across Russia, ... |
| 03/18/2018 08:15 | Russian election monitor fears vote day pressure (U.S. News & World Report)
Polls Open in Russia as Putin Eyes 4th Presidential Term - U.S. News & World Report |
| 03/17/2018 16:20 | WATCH LIVE: White House pushes back on reports of imminent top staff departures ( PBS NewsHour )
In private conversations in recent weeks, Trump has reflected on his desire to reshape the administration. Though the drumbeat of the ongoing Russia probe has only grown louder, the president believes that his recent decisions on tariffs and North Korea have breathed new life into his administration, ... |
| 03/17/2018 00:30 | Russian elections: how Putin reaches voters at the end of the earth ( Financial Times )
Under Putin, a former KGB officer, the state has partially rehabilitated Stalin as an âeffective managerâ and shied away from a reckoning with the Great Terror of the 1930s. Most of the camps were dismantled after they were shut down in the 1950s. Perm-36, the only camp functioning as a museum, ... |
| 03/16/2018 16:35 | Russia: Demonstrations Planned For After Election ( STRATFOR )
Russia's various regions have been instructed to hold demonstrations and rallies to celebrate Putin's expected victory, while the communist party applied for government approval to hold rallies reacting to the election results in Moscow and Perm. Major opposition groups have not announced plans for ... |
| 03/16/2018 16:35 | Does Putin's Russia reject the West? ( BBC News )
Now a museum, Perm-36 is the only part of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that still survives. The network of brutal labour camps was where Soviet Russia sent its political opponents, as well as many criminals and kulaks - wealthier peasants. During Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s, millions passed through the ... |
| 03/07/2018 11:15 | Never Remember: Q&A with Masha Gessen ( Global Michigan (press release) (blog) )
That kind of propaganda exists but that's actually not what Russian propaganda is, and it's not the way Russia has gone about not remembering. For Never Remember, we visited the prison camp at Perm-36 expecting to find that it had been seized by the state and turned into a museum glorifying the ... |
| 03/03/2018 10:40 | Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile ( RussianSpaceWeb.com )
According to Putin, Russia had begun the active testing phase in the development of the Sarmat missile, which was intended to replace the R-36M-2 Voevoda system, inherited from the ... The serial production of the engine was expected to be organized at the Proton-PM enterprise in the city of Perm. |
| 02/14/2018 09:40 | Director of National Intelligence: Russia will continue to use social media to worsen 'political ... ( SOFREP (press release) )
Dan Coats, the American Director of National Intelligence, warned the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that the risk of a global level conflict is higher today that it has been in decades, with a particular focus on the threats presented by North Korea, Iran, and terrorism, but compounded by the ... |
| 02/13/2018 03:30 | Vladimir Bukovsky: Dissident claiming he was framed by Putin's Russia sees child pornography ... ( The Independent )
True to his word, in Labour Camp No 35, near the Russian city of Perm, Bukovsky co-authored the Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents, a guide for other activists whom the Communists were trying to declare insane. By 1976, with Solzhenitsyn now in the West, the New York Times was describing ... |
| 02/11/2018 03:35 | Russian Historian Accused Of 'Religious Hatred' Over Account Of Solovki Gulag ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
They cited the investigation of Brodsky's book, the ongoing criminal case against Karelian gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev, the state takeover of the Perm-36 gulag museum, and pressure against the Memorial NGO as examples of this phenomenon. A review of Brodsky's book on an Orthodox website ... |
