russia & its neighbors in the 21 st century
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Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21 st Century. The Collectivist Russian Soul II. Top-down Politics & Corruption III. Reflections of the Past. Standard Russian icon image the “Mother & Child”. “On the mir (communal farm)” by Sergei Korovin (1858-1908). Post-Soviet Russia. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Russia & Its Neighbors in the 21st Century
I. The Collectivist Russian Soul
II. Top-down Politics & Corruption
III. Reflections of the Past
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Standard Russian
icon image the “Mother & Child”
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“On the mir (communal farm)” by
Sergei Korovin
(1858-1908)
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Post-Soviet Russia
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Video Link: • Corruption in Putin’s Russia:
“Russia’s Youtube Whistle Blower” (NY Times video, January 2011)
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An “inebriated Boris Yeltsin on the campaign trail in Rostov-on-the-Don” (1996—A.P. photo)
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Boris Yeltsin
resigned as Russia’s president
on the New Year in
2000
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Vladimir Putin, b.
1952; formerly of
the KGB and Russian Security
Forces (FSB)
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Ukrainian President Victor Lushenko before and after a poisoning during his 2005 campaign (photos only weeks apart).
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Anna Polit-
kovskaya (1958-206),
Russian investi-gative
journalist assass-
inated in October
2006
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Alexander Litvinenko (1962-2006), former KGB agent and critic of Vladimir Putin’s government who died in
England due to a mysterious poisoning.
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Video Link: • Russian dissident and anti-Putin
activist Alexander Litvenenko at the Frontline Club in London in November 2006, commenting on the recent death of Russian journalist Anna Politskovskaya
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and US President George W. Bush in Tbilisi in 2005
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Georgia’s new oil
pipeline, which began operation in
2005, was funded
mainly by BP and bypasses Russia’s oil
pipeline.
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FOX News cuts short interview with Georgians