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Russian Threat To Media Freedom On Hold
2008-05-20 15:38:00 The Russian parliament, for the moment, has placed a hold on proposed legislation which would have threatened members of the media with libel suits if they dared criticizing government officials. Duma Speaker, Boris Gryzlov, who heads United Russia and controls the parliamentary majority, said his party has changed its positon on the bill which would ...
Nashi is not ours anymore
2008-01-31 01:54:00 The pro-Putin youth movement Nashi is to be dissolved as a national organisation, Russian daily newspaper Kommersant reports. The decision comes after prolonged Kremlin dissatisfaction with Nashi's increasing radicalisation and extremist tendencies as a mass movement.As previously reported, sentiments have been rising in Moscow that Nashi has outlived its purpose after the December 2007 parliamentary elections. With increasing concern that the radicalisation of the organisation has given it a life of its own - beyond blind allegiance to the Kremlin - fear of what a loss of control over the movement might mean has probably resulted in the decision to disband the movement. In what appears almost as a Russian equivalent to the night of the long knives, the national organisation is dissolved along with all but five of its regional units.What is interesting is also what the Kremlin chooses to keep on to in Nashi's organisation. Except the five loyal regional units, the rest of the move...
Police crackdown on Nashi demonstration
2008-01-10 00:00:00 According to Russian newspaper Vzglyad, a number of activists of Russian pro-Putin youth movement "Nashi" were arrested today during an illegal demonstration outside the EU-commission's Moscow office. The demonstration, gathering some 700 people, was arranged in protest against Nashi-activists, partaking in last year's picket against the Estonian embassy in Moscow, being denied visas to the EU-Schengen area.Russian police has obviously learnt from last year's events, and urged the demonstrators to dissolve the meeting, which also was obeyed after some further disorder and some arrests. Nashi had not applied for a demonstration permit for the event. Even though the Russian constitution safeguards the right to assembly, legislation has been approved in recent years demanding official approval of any demonstration gathering more than one (sic!) person. Detainees were subsequently released out of police custody.That police actually intervened against Nashi demonstrators seems an exce...
Putin?s Kids Never Show Up!
2007-12-07 16:00:00 The administration of Vladmir Putin has copied many Soviet era approaches such as creating youth organizations which appear on cue to echo their love and support of the supreme leader. In this case, it is their father, Vladmir Putin. A new youth movement, Mishki which is geared toward 8-15 year olds and will serve as ...
Russian Youth And The Putin Cult
2007-11-02 22:59:00 Nikita Borovikov is head of the Russian youth organization Nashi which means “Our,” a battle cry Russian football fans use to cheer on their teams. The organization has thousands of members scattered all over Russia and they are blindly devoted to the President Putin. “Those who think badly of us call us Putin’s troops,” says ...
Nashi: Putin's Generation Of Young Brown Shirts For The New Despotic Russia
2007-08-01 22:54:00 They have been called "Putin's Generation" and "neo-Komsomol." They have served as evidence of a rising Russian fascism. But little reporting about Nashi in English goes beyond what its Commissars give reporters. The following interview gives a different picture. read more Bookmark/Search this post with: delicious | digg | reddit | technorati
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Sex for the motherland: Russian youths encouraged to procreate at camp
2007-07-31 15:20:00 But the real aim of the youth camp - and the 100,000-strong movement behind it - is not to improve Russia's demographic profile, but to attack democracy.
Nashi Youthful Red Menace of a New Era (?)
2007-05-22 02:10:00 Admitedly I know next to nothing of Russia’s politics. None the less I found this to be fascinating. Young Russia Rises The Kremlin has a new weapon in its war on real or imagined enemies, from opponents at home to foreign revolutionaries. Misha Galustov / Photographer.Ru for Newsweek Unquestioning Loyalty: ‘The idea was to create an ...
DSK, YCPL to Introduce New Housing Concept in Nashik
2007-05-18 07:47:00 Despite all ups and downs, Indian real estate is making rapid strides and attracting more and more property developers to come up with new real estate projects. The latest addition has been scheduled to give a booster dose to residential property in Nashik, the ?Wine Capital of India?. Pune based DS Kulkarni Developers Ltd (DSK) and ...
The Sumiya Motenashi Art Museum, Kyoto
2007-05-17 08:59:00 ????????????Sumiya is a two-story building that served as a very high-end restaurant/brothel during the Edo Period; its history dates from more than 350 years ago. Located in a former red-light district known as Shimabara, in central Kyoto, Sumiya is now a museum open to the public.Officially known as The Sumiya Motenashi Art Museum, Sumiya is the only remaining ?ageya? in Kyoto. Ageya were elegant restaurants where Geisha and Taiyu performed and lived. In 1952 the building was designated as an Important Cultural Property.Sumiya was a place for well-heeled to come to be entertained?but to label it to a "brothel" is to limit its significance and function. It was a meeting place and salon where elite and powerful men gathered. It was for example the meeting place of Shimabara Haidan, a well-known haiku group. It was also a showcase for some of the most talented artists and artisans of the era.There are no other comparable buildings surviving in Tokyo or Osaka?or anywhere in Japan.On a...
DesignAShirt.com's Founder on Yahoo!'s Entrepreneur of the Week
2007-03-12 14:03:00 Do you remember, last weekend I said that it's possible to be a millionaire by just selling good T-shirts? The story doesn't stop there: I found this inspired article about John Anton, president of DesignAShirt.com, on Yahoo finance's Entrepreneur of the week. Just for year 2007 (2006??) his 27-employees, company's revenue hit $6 million. On this article, John told his story how he started his college business (designing a racy T-shirt for his folks based on rival school's mascot) and how he struggled with his screen printing business. Later, he decide to explore on-demand customized-apparel service, named DesignAShirt.com -- before he came to a full-circle"After achieving success with Anton Sports, his brick-and-mortar screen-printing and embroidery business, Anton really got things cooking in 2003 when he launched DesignAShirt.com, which now sells, on average, about $12,000 worth of custom-designed apparel every day." [read more this article...]Now you feel like you want it,...
By: T-shirt Island
Steny Hoyer Must be Gnashing his Teeth
2006-08-23 19:15:08 House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) must be gnashing his teeth that he lost his bid for the job he now has to Nancy Pelosi in October 2001. Had he been elected Whip that year, he would likely have succeeded Richard Gephardt as House Minority Leader in 2002 and would be the face of House Democrats today. With Hoyer at the helm, Democrats would be in a far better position to win a majority in the House this fall. With a Gallup poll showing Republicans closing the gap (from an 11-point deficit to just 2 points) in the “generic Congressional ballot” and with the recent AP poll that Bruce cited earlier today, it’s far from clear that a Democratic takeover of Congress in the offing for this fall. As Bruce noted, most Americans have yet to focus on the fall Elections. When they look at the Democrats, not only will they see their local candidates, but they will also see House Minority Leader Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Reid, both who have used their posit...
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