Archivo etiqueta «Rusia»
By Victor Erofeyev, a Russian writer and television host. This article was translated from the Russian by the International Herald Tribune (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/11):
“I came, I falsified, I won” read an ironic poster with an image of Julius Caesar that I saw in the hands of a demonstrator who had come out to protest the rigging of the recent parliamentary elections. And there were tens of thousands of such demonstrators.
Incredible in scale, the mass demonstration last Saturday on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, within sight of the Kremlin, can be called, without exaggeration, the Bolotnaya Revolution. It’s … Seguir leyendo
By Nikolas Gvosdev, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and Matthew A. Rojansky, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Both participated in the Dartmouth Dialogues. The opinions expressed are their own (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/11):
Nearly three years after the U.S.-Russia “reset” was announced in February 2009, the fragility of relations between Moscow and Washington is on full display. Even though the two countries have deepened their collaboration in a number of key areas — particularly in facilitating … Seguir leyendo
Por André Glucksmann, filósofo francés. Traducción de Juan Ramón Azaola (EL PAÍS, 14/12/11):
Los grandes acontecimientos avanzan con pies de paloma, señalaba Nietzsche. ¿Por qué son tan silenciosos, si no es porque atacan nuestros prejuicios y denuncian nuestras miopías? Así ha sucedido con las elecciones rusas de este 4 de diciembre de 2011. La bofetada magistral que infligen al partido presidencial da inicio al declive de una apariencia (“imitación”, dicen los disidentes) de democracia y al fracaso de las ilusiones que ha alimentado.
Y, sin embargo, el año debía de terminar en apoteosis para el número uno de Rusia. … Seguir leyendo
By Frank Klotz, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Susan Koch, an independent consultant and Franklin Miller, a principal at the Scowcroft Group. All three have served in senior positions at the U.S. Department of Defense and on the National Security Council staff (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/12/11):
In September 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced a series of sweeping measures fundamentally reshaping the American nuclear arsenal. One of them called for all U.S. ground-force tactical nuclear weaponsto be returned from overseas bases and dismantled. Similarly, all tactical nuclear weapons on surface ships … Seguir leyendo
Par André Glucksmann, philosophe (LE MONDE, 13/12/11): [Versión en español]
Les grands événements avancent à pas de colombe, remarquait Nietzsche. Pourquoi sont-ils si silencieux, sinon qu’ils froissent nos préjugés et accusent nos myopies ? Ainsi va-t-il des élections russes ce 4 décembre. La claque magistrale qu’elles infligent au parti présidentiel amorce le déclin d’une démocratie d’apparence (“imitation”, disent les dissidents) et la faillite des illusions qu’elle a nourries. La leçon magistrale des manifestations démocratiques de samedi, les plus grandes depuis 1991 et peut-être depuis février 1917, s’impose : Poutine, après Kadhafi, Ben Ali, Moubarak ou … Seguir leyendo
By Charles M. Madigan, presidential writer in residence at Roosevelt University and a reporter in Moscow from 1977 to 1979 (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 11/12/11):
It began snowing in Moscow that year on Sept. 23 and it did not stop snowing until mid-April. The grayness of the weather matched the grayness of the waning years of Leonid Brezhnev’s era as Soviet premier.
Winter moved in and obliterated what was left of fall.
A darkness, all but impenetrable, fell over the city. When you looked out the windows of your apartment, you could see the snow flashing and dancing in the halo … Seguir leyendo
By Valery Panyushkin, the author of 12 Who Don’t Agree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin’s Russia. This essay was translated by Yevgeniya Traps from the Russian (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/12/11):
A few months before this week’s parliamentary elections, around 10 of us gathered in a small room at the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, a place meant to honor freedom of thought, a place that no one visits.
Boris Nemtsov was there, a former deputy prime minister whose opposition party was one of the many excluded from the elections. And so was Viktor Shenderovich, who … Seguir leyendo
By Maxim Trudolyubov, the editorial page editor of the Russian daily Vedomosti (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/12/11):
I sensed something was different when a good friend of mine, Katya Vladyshevskaya, the mother of a beautiful 4-year-old, called me a month ago and asked if becoming an election monitor made any sense. Well, yes, I said, why not, it should be a good thing.
But as we talked, I was struck by the very idea of a young person — not a journalist, not a civic activist, not one of the usual suspects, in other words — becoming actively interested … Seguir leyendo
By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/12/11):
From my first day in office as NATO secretary general, I have made clear that NATO-Russia cooperation remains of strategic importance. We share common security interests and face common challenges. And since our NATO-Russia summit meeting in Lisbon a year ago, we have come a long way in tackling new threats with new thinking.
We are bringing stability to Afghanistan, and stemming the flood of narcotics out of the country — together. We are fighting terrorism in our cities and our airspaces — together. We … Seguir leyendo
By Ariel Cohen, senior research fellow in Russian and Eurasian studies and international energy policy at The Heritage Foundation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/12/11):
December marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union. It’s a fitting time, then, to take stock of what was achieved — and what failed — in Eurasia over the last two decades.
The Obama administration has tried to “reset” U.S. relations with Russia. But the recent threat by the Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, to shut down the U.S. supply line to Afghanistan is a reminder of just how deep … Seguir leyendo
By Dov S. Zakheim, an under secretary of defense from 2001 to 2004 and vice chairman of the Center for the National Interest, where Paul J. Saunders is executive director (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/12/11):
America’s relations with Pakistan have been steadily deteriorating ever since a Navy Seals team killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad in May. Matters became still worse in September, when Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of supporting an attack on the American Embassy in Kabul. And on Saturday, the relationship hit a new low when … Seguir leyendo
By Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/11/11):
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s warning last week of measures Russia will take if the United States and NATO continue with their missile-defense program in Europe, while sounding tough, is not the end of the U.S.-Russian reset. It is more of a pre-election recess of Russian-American diplomacy.
But his statement, and more broadly the state of U.S.-Russian arms-control efforts, reveals a broad gap in how the nuclear powers perceive each other’s importance. For Washington, Russia has fallen far down on the list of priorities. The Russian … Seguir leyendo
By David Hearst, a foreign leader writer for the Guardian (THE GUARDIAN, 29/11/11):
Before meeting Vladimir Putin, it’s best to get acquainted with his horse. Each year a group of academics and journalists is invited by the Russian government to agonise about the fate of Russia. What results is a cross between a seminar and group therapy. The last day is set aside for the guv’nor himself.
Anticipation is spiced by uncertainty. No one knows until the last minute where, or even if, the meeting will take place. Last year the group was flown from Moscow to Sochi, bussed … Seguir leyendo
Par Clémentine Fauconnier, doctorante au CERI-Sciences Po (LE MONDE, 29/11/11):
Le 4 décembre prochain, quelques mois avant le scrutin présidentiel de mars 2012 qui devrait marquer le retour de Vladimir Poutine à la présidence, auront lieu en Russie les élections législatives. A cette occasion, sept partis s’affronteront afin de pourvoir les 450 sièges de la chambre basse du parlement russe, la Douma. Comme lors du cycle électoral de 2007, le scrutin se déroulera au scrutin proportionnel intégral avec un seuil de représentativité fixé à 7%. L’enjeu de ces législatives – qu’on présente volontiers comme une répétition générale de la … Seguir leyendo
By Dominic Fean, a junior research fellow at the Russia/New Independent States Center at the French Institute of International Relations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/11/11):
If Vladimir Putin returns as planned to the presidency in 2012, he will once again face the challenge of modernizing the Russian economy. This is something both he and his seat-warmer, Dmitri Medvedev, have failed to achieve during three consecutive presidential terms. On Thursday, a meeting of the working group on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization is expected to end 18 years of negotiations by finalizing terms of membership for Russia, the … Seguir leyendo