NEWS

FINAL EXAM

Nov. 9:

Stalin nostalgia in today's Russia: http://ww.smashits.com/stalin-nostalgia-russia/song-video-youtube-270697.html

Oct. 29:

Russian Godfathers, Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Cib5FMq9A

Wall Street and Russian Oligarchy compared: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Dt1y0eMo8

Oct. 28:

Putin brands Western media hypocrites: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/25/putin-pussy-riot-western-hypocrisy/print

Sept. 24:

Democracy and Russian public opinion - discussion, poll data, RAD No.117: http://www.css.ethz.ch/publications/pdfs/RAD-117.pdf

Sept. 22:

Human Development Reports - browse: http://hdr.undp.org/xmlsearch/reportSearch?y=*&c=*&t=*&lang=en&k=&orderby=year

Putin's Russia Hits the "Clear" Button on the Medvedev Era: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/world/europe/medvedevs-handiwork-is-erased-in-putins-russia.html?_r=1&ref=world&pagewanted=print

Dec. 6:

"Sasha walked down the highway": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5TjO_MuU8

Nov. 29:

Meanings of democracy in Russia - Gleb Pavlovsky: http://rt.com/politics/pavlovsky-interview-medvedev-blog/print/

Putin's interview, June 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PlQaV7Iro

Putin's interview, Aug. 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHn8swVS7E&feature=related

Pro-Putin Russians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeA6y2vFXgU

Nov. 23:

Pres. Medvedev warns of political stagnation in Russia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11828222

Oct. 30:

A profile of Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31prokhorov-t.html?_r=2&ref=global-home&pagewanted=all

Oct. 25:

Russia most corrupt among G-20 countries, study says: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/26/AR2010102601429.html

THERE WILL BE NO CLASS ON OCT.18

Oct. 5:

Putin or Medvedev? An article by a prominent American expert on Russian politics: http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/russia-the-2012-question-4165

Oct. 2:

Russian party gains in Latvia amidst economic woes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/world/europe/02latvia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Sept. 13:

Anti-Borat in Kazakhstan - http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/confessions-of-a-movie-addict/2010-08-20.html

Town of Little Angels: http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-09-01/593146.html

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan: http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-07-31/586933.html