Serbia: Vladimir Putin finds a new home in Jagodina's wax museum
A Serbian wax museum revealed a wax figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the city of Jagodina, Wednesday. The waxwork, created by Belgrade-based sculptors Zoran Ivanovic and Branislav Crvenkovic, was introduced during the official ceremony attended by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, as well as Mayor of Jagodina Dragan Markovic.
SOT, Dragan Markovic, Mayor of Jagodina (Serbian): No Russian person will ever miss Jagodina because here is where their President Putin, is exhibited in the museum, a man whom 90 percent of Serbian people respect and love.
SOT, Ivica Dacic, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Serbian): Serbia has a strong political partner and a country which helps us a lot in defending our national interest, that country is the Russian Federation.
SOT, Ivica Dacic, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Serbian): Kosovo would have now been admitted in the UN if there was not the Russian Federation which gives its veto on that issue in the Security Council and everybody should know that. If somebody asks you why we are in good relations with Russia - it is because for love you need two.
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LIVE: Russian presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin holds press conference in Nizhny Novgorod
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Pavel Grudinin, the Russian Communist party’s candidate for the upcoming Russian presidential elections, is holding a press conference in Nizhny Novgorod, on Friday, February 9.
Grudinin was officially elected as presidential candidate for the March 18 elections from the Communist Party at its congress in December, replacing Gennady Zyuganov, the party’s 73-year-old former leader.
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Russia: Putin orders de-mining of liberated Palmyra
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered the de-mining and clearance of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, during a meeting with senior military officials in the town of Nizhny Novgorod.
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): I would like to return once again to the well-known issue of the liberation of the city of Palmyra in Syria by the Syrian armed forces with our support and our participation. First, I want to congratulate our soldiers who have made a significant contribution to the fight against terrorism.
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): Secondly, there is a humanitarian issue, that is mine clearance. In a telephone conversation with the UNESCO Director-General and then the Syrian President, we agreed that Russia will provide support for the clearance of Palmyra in general, and most important, of historical artifacts.
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): I asked the Defence Minister, with whom I have already talked and who has already started the preparations, to report on what is planned in the near future and how you intend to organise this work on the clearance of Palmyra.
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): I would like to note that the domestic military industry met the standards set even though the international situation is difficult and there are economic challenges. Defence enterprises manufacture quality products that effectively compete in international markets. The capabilities of our equipment and weapons were demonstrated also in combat, in the fight against the terrorist threat.
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): The number of export orders has been steadily increasing. Last year new contracts worth over 26 billion dollars were signed. We exceeded the most recent peak in 2013. So, the current amount of export orders on arms and military equipment has reached 56 billion dollars for the first time since 1992.
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Russia: Putin gifts Ulyukaev a book on economics for his 60th birthday
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with a group of Russia's top businesspeople at a Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs gathering in Moscow on Thursday.
The convention followed the annual plenary session of the union at which Putin praised business development in Russia saying it has become more responsible and mature. During the meeting the possible impact of the international situation was discussed, with a focus on conflicts in Ukraine and Syria as well as the geopolitical situation in general.
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USA: Washington wants to rebuild 'complicated' relationship with Russia
US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said that the US wants to rebuild a very complicated, complex relationship relationship with Russia because of many areas of mutual concern, during a press briefing in Washington DC on Thursday.
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Alexander Cooley on Vladimir Putin's Image and Russia's Role in Syria, Ukraine
Alexander Cooley, Director of The Harriman Institute, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College; Columbia University. He has written extensively on former Soviet Union Republics and on recent developments in Syria, Ukraine and Russian-American relations.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.