Tag: Yury Luzhkov

Primakov’s Death United Russians More than Crimea, a Measure of the Sickness of Russian Society, Portnikov Says

July 1, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, July 1 The passing of Yevgeny Primakov “unexpectedly unified Russian society no less” and quite possibly more than the Crimean Anschluss, and the basis of this – an “indisputable faith in the greatness of the old Soviet nomenklatura” represents “a real diagnosis of the illness of Russian or more precisely post-Soviet society,” Vitaly Portnikov […]

Putin Faces New Kind of Parade of Sovereignties in Degraded Russian Regions

May 31, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 27 – Russian governors, “even the most loyal” to the Kremlin, as a result of the intensification of the economic crisis, find themselves between a rock and a hard place and are beginning to complain about Moscow’s failure to articulate an anti-crisis strategy which takes the interests of their regions into account, according […]