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Medvedev-Putin, now becomes Putin-Medvedev for the next six years
Vladimir Putin, who was officially sworn in for a third term as president of Russia on Monday after four years of serving as the country’s prime minister, has nominated his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev to replace him as prime minister. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat a sad state of affairs in Russia. This crass manipulation of the democratic system is frankly farcical and Putin is an extremely shady and incompetent person. As we know the russians arent overly happy with the situation and there have been more protests this weekend against his succession again - through fraud and manipulation of the ballot box.
May 07th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The russians are another govt and people that couldnt run a piss up in a brewery and with the vast majority of the people living in abject poverty its salient to note that Putin is building his own extravagant palace, with public funds, on the edge of the black Sea.
shameful.
And in six years, it will be Medvedev-Putin again. You have to love that Russian style of democracy. Doesn't it remind you of a certain South American nation that shares a border with Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay?
May 07th, 2012 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He did it,
May 07th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and CFK wants to do it .
I think Medvedev will be gone soon - a bit too liberal for the likes of Putin, similar to the able finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who resigned and went over to the opposition side.
May 08th, 2012 - 12:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0So how might all this impact on Britain, the South Atlantic region and on the Falklands especially? Russia has two high-profile territories it got at the end of WWII - exclave Kaliningrad and the Kurile Islands. What logic could there be to any Russia support for Argentina given that it has those territories? Putin has shown real anger at Westerners who want to meddle in his bailiwick and seems to be promoting state sovereignty around his region.
This could mean that Russia won't be inserting itself the Falklands issue, but to spite Britain (which harbours some anti-Putin oligarchs as well as other Russians who are being sought for extradition back to charges in Russia), possible that Putin might do something.
Of course there is always the arms trade and Russia really does want to get from being #2 world arms supplier to challenging US as #1, and could mean that Russia will be eager to export all sorts of new, powerful weapons to Argentina, on favourable terms.
Argentina is a product of colonialism, conquered by the sword, most of the natives killed and infected by disease, their land taken from them and worked by imported African slaves, oversean by imported European colonials. The African's who made up 50% of the population would themselves completely disapear from Argentina between 1850-1900 in what could have been a chilling fore runner to the disareances of the Dirty War in the 1970's when an estimated 30,000 Argentines were raped, tortured and murdered, many more were held illegally in detention camps and tortured. The true figure for the dead could be as high as 100,000, no one knows because there is little official documentation and most bodies were dumped in the sea.
May 08th, 2012 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina took land from its neighbours in numberous wars , civil wars and land grabs - Paraguay, Uraguay, Chile. Today Argentina despite the changed political landscape is still a nation characterised by uber nationalism. The claim to the Falklands was surendered in 1850 but reserected in 1941 by a fascist junta, which inc Peron, they thought their friends the Nazi were going to win the war, the Falklands looked easy picking.
In 1982 Argentina was under the latest succession of a series of fascism military junta's. Their hold on power was looking precarious, in deperation they sort a war, Chile looked like a good victim, they already claimed lots of land and were ignoring the international tribunals that had ruled in Chile's favor. But then they changed their mind and invaded the Falklands. Today the war is romanticized by a nation ruled by a kind of cross between a Neo-Nazi uber nationalist and a Charvesta Revolutionary uber Marxist. The only thing missing is the land reform. Maybe that's for later? But as few natives remain, maybe they'll just ignore their rights... God knows they always have. An entire culture replaced by a European one. Entire languages destroyed.
Timmerman should take time to read about his country's history.
the red arrows will be flying in russia,
May 08th, 2012 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the thaw is comming,
what next we wonder.
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