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Russia

Russia: Week-long vote, full of falsification

July 13, 2020 Alexander Dmitriev

On July 1 the vote for amendments to the Constitution of Russia ended. The real goal of voting was to extend Putin’s rule until 2036 and give the illusion of widespread support of the population. […]

Russia

Russia: Referendum on constitution aims at keeping Putin in power

June 29, 2020 Alexander Dmitriev, CWI Russia

On 25 June voting began in the referendum to decide the future fate of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Voting on a long list of amendments to the constitution will last almost a week, ending on […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

“For the world, the blow will be very difficult and very serious,” – Russian oligarch warns about economic consequences of pandemic

June 11, 2020 Dmitriev Alexandr, CWI Russia

Anatoly Chubais, the Russian oligarch, Chairman of Rusnano and one of the main initiators of privatisation in the 1990s, warned Forbes magazine recently about the consequences of the pandemic and the global crisis of 2020 […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Putin’s early ending of lockdown cannot disguise depth of covid-19 crisis

June 2, 2020 Alexander Dmitriev, CWI Russia

On May 11, Vladimir Putin ended the “non-working days” regime and local authorities are gradually ending the self-isolation rules. This is happening while Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Putin’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, and the head […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Popular anger grows in Russia over Putin’s handling of covid-19 crisis 

April 20, 2020 Ilya Usnitsky, CWI Reporter, Russia 

The deep crisis in Russia arising from both the ‘oil war’ and the covid-19 pandemic will soon be widely felt. However, Russia is not ready for it. According to analysts, the consequences of the crisis […]

Russia

Russia: Putin dramatically reshuffles government

February 4, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

On 14 January, many Russians celebrate New Year’s Eve (according to the pre-revolutionary Gregorian calendar). On 15 January, this year, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in his annual State of the Nation address, announced the summary […]

Russia

Consolidating Russia’s gangster capitalism

December 31, 2018 Niall Mulholland, first published in Socialism Today (Issue 222, October 2018), monthly journal of the Socialist Party England & Wales

Vladimir Putin rose to power after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as gangster capitalism seized hold of Russia. Emulating aspects of Stalin’s ‘strongman’ image, he has sought to reassert Russian power on the world […]

Middle East

Syria: Russia makes chemical weapons proposal

September 10, 2013 Judy Beishon, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

But anti-war campaigning must be maintained; No to imperialist intervention!

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Russia

Russia: The Yeltsin years and the oligarchs

June 4, 2007 Clare Doyle, cwi

Workers’ hopes dashed by gangster capitalism.

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Russia

Russia: Yeltsin’s legacy – ‘wild’ capitalism across the former USSR

April 24, 2007 ClareDoyle, cwi

It is sickening for the impoverished working people of the ex-Soviet Union to see the praise being heaped on Boris Yeltsin, one time president of Russia, after his death from heart failure on Monday, 23 […]

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