Is Russia adopting nuke 1st strike policy?

Posted by Matt in February 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Aggression, Anatoly, Colonel, Deputy Chief, Dmitry Medvedev, G2 Bulletin, General Staff, Joseph Farah, Military Doctrine, New Doctrine, Nuclear Weapons, Nuke, Policy Security, Russia, Russian President, Security Experts

Security experts believe Russia has adopted a secret policy for the possible use of first-strike nuclear weapons to deter “conventional aggression,” according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a new Russian military doctrine, and while publicizing it, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn [...]

Russia’s Military Doctrine: New Dangers Appear – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in February 22nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Aftermath, Chief Source, Conventional Conflict, Conventional Military Capabilities, Dmitry Medvedev, Gap, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, Leadership, Military Doctrine, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Preemptive Nuclear Strike, Realistic Portrayal, Reliance, Russia, Russian Authors, Russian Federation, Russian Military

In the immediate aftermath of President Dmitry Medvedev signing the new Russian military doctrine most attention focused on the fact that a first preemptive nuclear strike was not mentioned in the document and on the attention given to NATO as the chief source of “danger” to the security of the Russian Federation. Comments by NATO’s [...]

Russia army corruption ‘cost $100m in 2009′

Posted by Matt in January 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, 100m, Aim, Army, Bbc, Bbc News, Crimes, Dmitry Medvedev, Fight Against Corruption, Fight News, Fraud, Generals, News Russia

He said six generals were jailed last year for crimes including fraud.
The news comes despite President Dmitry Medvedev’s stated aim to prioritise the fight against corruption.
BBC News – Russia army corruption ‘cost $100m in 2009′

Russia: Shift to the shadows | FT.com

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Accession, Apogee, Civilian Government, Dmitry Medvedev, Elite Groups, First Position, Limelight, Members, Monitors, moscow, Move Towards, Olga, People, Presidency, Russia, Siloviki, Sociologist, Strong Guys, Zeitgeist

According to Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a University of Moscow sociologist who monitors elite groups, the siloviki – literally “strong guys” – hit their apogee in 2007, when they accounted for two out of every three members of the president’s administration. But following the accession to the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, they are this year down to [...]

Russia: Stuck in a Year of Events and Little Change – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in January 4th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Approval Ratings, December 28, Democratic Freedoms, Dmitry Medvedev, Economic Crisis, Economic Reforms, Gazeta Ru, Human Rights, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, Levada, Opinion Polls, Present Day, Prime Minister, Reformers, Russians, Stalinism, Sudden Death, Vladimir Putin, Yegor Gaidar

Last year was for Russia both extraordinarily hard and very unlucky –but it saw strikingly little economic reforms and practically no political development. Opinion polls show that a significant majority of Russians (62 percent) consider it as worse than 2008, when the arrival of the economic crisis coincided with the war with Georgia, but the [...]

Corporate Raiding: The Danger of Doing Business in Russia – TIME

Posted by Matt in December 20th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Array, Bribery, Bureaucratic Incompetence, Business In Russia, Corporate Business, Corrupt Policemen, Dmitry Medvedev, Doing Business In Russia, Financiers, Forgery, Identity Theft, Illegal Tactics, Jails, kremlin, Lawyers, Nihilism, Physical Intimidation, Russia Time, Squalid Conditions, Tax Officials

Magnitsky’s death has triggered a wave of public discussion in Russia — reaching as high as the Kremlin — about the squalid conditions in the country’s jails and bureaucratic incompetence. But it has also renewed focus on an odious criminal practice that embodies what President Dmitry Medvedev describes as the “legal nihilism” pervading the country. [...]

Russia Quietly Creates Leaner, More Modern Military : NPR

Posted by Matt in December 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, Armed Forces, Dmitry Medvedev, Huge Project, Modernization Programs, Npr, Russia, Soviet Style, Transformation

The transformation of Russia’s military may be the most successful of President Dmitry Medvedev’s modernization programs, but it’s not something he talks about much publicly because it is so controversial.
The huge project involves painful cuts and dismantling deep-vested interests that have thrived on bloated, Soviet-style armed forces.
Russia Quietly Creates Leaner, More Modern Military : NPR

The 7 Most Powerful People in Russia

Posted by Matt in November 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Global Elite, Russia, Basic Element, Ceo, Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, Lukoil, Minister Of Finance, Oleg Deripaska, Patriarch, Russia, Vagit Alekperov, Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin – Prime Minister, Russia
Igor Sechin – Deputy Prime Minister, Russia
Dmitry Medvedev – President, Russia
Alexei Kudrin – Minister of Finance, Russia
Vagit Alekperov – President of Lukoil
Oleg Deripaska – CEO, Basic Element Co.
Patriarch Kirill I – Patriarch Kirill I

NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow? – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Posted by Matt in November 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Break, Commitments, Dmitry Medvedev, Eastern Europe, Fall Of The Iron Curtain, German Reunification, Moscow News, NATO, Nato Expansion, Negotiations, News International, Online News, Promise, Russian Position, Russian President, Spiegel, Spiegel Online

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position.
NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow? [...]

The Associated Press: Russian president: Economy sank more than forecast

Posted by Matt in October 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Associated Press, Dmitry Medvedev, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Gross Domestic Product, kremlin, Measures, Russia Economy, Russia S Economy, Russian Economy, Russian President, S Gross, Worst Case Scenario

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday that Russia’s economy was hit harder than expected by the global financial crisis, but Kremlin measures helped the country avoid the worst-case scenario.
Russia’s gross domestic product will drop by about 7.5 percent this year, compared with earlier forecasts of 3 to 3.5 percent, and industrial production fell by nearly [...]