Titlebook: Media, Culture and Society in Putin‘s Russia; Stephen White (Professor of International Politics Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Introductionid, was either banned or compulsory. There was a single ruling party, and it dominated the life of the society through its ‘leading role’. The party itself was dominated by its top leadership, and above all by its General Secretary. Party rule was subject to no effective challenge, either from the c

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Civil Society and the Reconstitution of Russian Political Space: the Case of the Republic of Karelia post-Soviet politics. At the same time, the end of Russian civil society and of Russian democratization have been predicted constantly since the collapse of the Soviet system. Questions of this kind have also inspired high-level political discussion, for instance in the European Parliament, and pro

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What Kind of Civil Society in Russia?t Russia. At the turn of the millennium, assessments were made not only as this marked the end of the first decade of development, but also the onset of a new era of government with Vladimir Putin assuming the presidency in 2000. By then, many scholars responded with rather optimistic prospects to t

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Russian and Estonian Civil Society Discourses Comparedn such contexts as the criticism levelled against dictatorships in Latin America, the neoliberal critique of the welfare state, the antineoliberal critique of globalization, the communitarian critique of individualized modern societies, and the opposition to the Soviet-type system and the constructi

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Journalistic Source Practices in Russian Business Dailieseconomic questions. In Russia, economic reforms and structural changes have meant a boom in the popularity of business publications since the early 1990s. When Russia took its first steps towards a market economy, there was a huge need for reliable information about the economy, markets and business

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Journalists in the Russian Regions: How Different Generations View their Professional Rolestic and open one. The post-Soviet media, as its sixteen-year history shows, have in principle been kept on the leash of the political authorities — it is possible to let go of the leash, or to shorten it. During the . era and in the early 1990s Russian journalists’ understanding of the ‘fourth estat

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Debating Kyoto: Soviet Networks and New Perplexitiesf prevarication by the Russian authorities in various international fora. It did not, however, lay to rest the controversy on the subject among the Russian elite, splitting the political leadership and the economic and scientific communities. The opposition in each of the three groups between Kyoto

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