russia & its neighbors in the 21 st century
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Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21 st Century. The Collectivist Russian Soul II. Top-down Politics & Corruption III. Reflections of the Past. Standard Russian icon image the “Mother & Child”. “On the mir (communal farm)” by Sergei Korovin (1858-1908). Post-Soviet Russia. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21st Century
I. The Collectivist Russian Soul
II. Top-down Politics & Corruption
III. Reflections of the Past
Standard Russian
icon image the “Mother & Child”
“On the mir (communal farm)” by
Sergei Korovin
(1858-1908)
Post-Soviet Russia
Video Link: • Corruption in Putin’s Russia:
“Russia’s Youtube Whistle Blower” (NY Times video, January 2011)
An “inebriated Boris Yeltsin on the campaign trail in Rostov-on-the-Don” (1996—A.P. photo)
Boris Yeltsin
resigned as Russia’s president
on the New Year in
2000
Vladimir Putin, b.
1952; formerly of
the KGB and Russian Security
Forces (FSB)
Ukrainian President Victor Lushenko before and after a poisoning during his 2005 campaign (photos only weeks apart).
Anna Polit-
kovskaya (1958-206),
Russian investi-gative
journalist assass-
inated in October
2006
Alexander Litvinenko (1962-2006), former KGB agent and critic of Vladimir Putin’s government who died in
England due to a mysterious poisoning.
Video Link: • Russian dissident and anti-Putin
activist Alexander Litvenenko at the Frontline Club in London in November 2006, commenting on the recent death of Russian journalist Anna Politskovskaya
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and US President George W. Bush in Tbilisi in 2005
Georgia’s new oil
pipeline, which began operation in
2005, was funded
mainly by BP and bypasses Russia’s oil
pipeline.
FOX News cuts short interview with Georgians