{"id":1724,"date":"2008-02-28T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2008-02-28T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T13:11:37","slug":"links-for-2008-02-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-28\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-02-28: Russian election special"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/27\/europe\/russia.php\">Sizing up Medvedev, the next Russian president<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yet another Russian riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. This is why Russia&#8217;s always so fascinating. And terrifying&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,538095,00.html\">Russia&#8217;s Dangerous Double Act<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Shared leadership has never worked in Russia&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/article\/globalisation\/institutions_and_government\/the_new_russia\">The new Russia: a model state<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Vladimir Putin&#8217;s legacy to his successor as Russia&#8217;s president is a form of authoritarian governance that is becoming a serious and active rival to democracy&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurozine.com%2Farticles%2F2008-02-27-gudkov-de.html&#038;langpair=de%7Cen&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF8\">State without a society<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Indifference towards authoritarianism means that when Russia goes to vote, it will be an act of mass obedience on the part of a society unable to imagine anything better&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exile.ru\/articles\/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=17066\">Russian quotes for foreign hacks<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Worried about your March 2nd election story?&#8221; &#8211; ha! Spot on&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertamsterdam.com\/2008\/02\/video_clinton_struggles_to_nam.htm\">Video: Clinton struggles to name Medvedev<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hell, he&#8217;s only going to be the single most important foreign leader the next US president&#8217;s going to have to deal with, after all&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia,\">Russia,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siberianlight.net\/2008\/02\/27\/russian-presidential-election-candidates-profile\/\">Russian presidential election: the candidates<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Four men are vying for the top job &#8211; Putin\u2019s Poodle, the Neo-Communist, Mad Vlad, and the liberal Masonic Grandmaster who likes to blog&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/stories\/2008\/02\/28\/011.html\">Critical Journalist Stopped at Russian Airport Shocker!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;An investigative journalist who reported that the Kremlin maintained secret funds to finance political parties, was refused entry to Russia&#8230; after border guards said she was a threat to national security&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sizing up Medvedev, the next Russian president Yet another Russian riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. This is why Russia&#8217;s always so fascinating. And terrifying&#8230; (tags: Russia) Russia&#8217;s Dangerous Double Act &#8220;Shared leadership has never worked in Russia&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21],"tags":[185,38],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog","category-former-ussr","tag-elections","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}