Thursday, October 11, 2007
Calls for Burial of Lenin's Body
Yahoo! News reports that a referendum is being called for to determine whether the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, housed in a mausoleum in Red Square for more than 80 years, should be removed and buried. Since the fall of the Soviet government, top officials such as Vladimir Putin have been calling for consideration of whether the shrine to the Bolshevik revolutionary is appropriate.
FOREVER LENIN focuses on the reasons behind and the process of embalming Lenin as well as the maintenance required for the body and budgetary problems plaguing it today. Labels: history, Putin, Russia
Arrests in Anna Politkovskaya's Murder
The Russian journalist is featured in
DEMOCRACY ON DEADLINE, and we have been following the case of her murder closely. The Associated Press
reports that "Russia on Monday announced that 10 people have been arrested in the killing of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, including law enforcement officers and a Chechen crime boss accused of organizing the slaying."
Labels: Anna Politkovskaya, Chechnya, journalism, Putin, Russia
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Opposing the Kremlin?A recent spate of high-profile assassinations of Russians, including journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was shot outside her home and ex K.G.B agent-in-exile Alexander Litvinenko, done in by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium 210, are the subject of a new
New Yorker article by Michael Specter,
Kremlin, Inc.: Why are Vladimir Putin's opponents dying? Tania Rakhmanova’s new film
HOW PUTIN CAME TO POWER explores the meteoric rise to power of this once unknown F.S.B. (the modern K.G.B.) agent and sets the stage for the Specter’s investigation of Putin’s current administration.
Labels: articles, Kremlin, Putin, Russia
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