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Antiseliger
Anti-Seliger is a forum of civil and environmental activists that took place from 17 to 20 June 2011 in Russia, in the Khimki Forest near Moscow. The initiative to hold the forum has been proposed by the Movement in Defence of the Khimki Forest. According to the leader of the movement, Yevgenia Chirikova, Anti-Seliger is an alternative to the pro-Kremlin forum at Lake Seliger. On the other hand, it is a place for meetings and discussions for civil activists, who want to unite and stand on their rights. The organisers had invited civil and eco-activists, politicians, artists, and all active citizens who are willing to support the protection of nature and civil society development. The programme included lectures, musical and literary performances, exhibitions, competitions, debates, walks and tree planting in the Khimki forest. Speakers included Yevgenia Chirikova, journalist Oleg Kashin, democracy activist Oleg Kozlovsky, former Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khimki Forest
Khimki Forest is a forest near the Russian city of Moscow covering about 1000 hectares. It is part of the so-called "Green Belt" around Moscow. An $8 billion high speed road, the Moscow–Saint Petersburg motorway (M11), has been proposed to go through the forest to connect Moscow and Saint Petersburg. For this purpose, part of the forest would have been cut down. The construction triggered large protests, which turned violent in July 2010. On 26 August 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the construction to be halted. Protests over planned highway History of opposition The Moscow–Saint Petersburg motorway, M11, a new toll motorway, was proposed to go through the forest. The roadway would connect Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The proposed road attracted local and international opposition due to deforestation and other environmental issues. The forest's fauna includes foxes, elk, wild boars and a number of species of insects and plants considered endangered. Logging in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seliger (forum)
Seliger () is an educational forum ''(camp)'' held since 2005 at Lake Seliger in the Russian Tver Region (350 km from Moscow). Since 2015, it has been succeeded by a new forum organized by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs "Rosmolodezh" on a new site, with a new name " Territory of Meanings" History The emblem of the Seliger Forum was a smiley face in a red garrison cap of the flag of the "Nashi" youth movement In 2000-2005, the first participants in this platform were activists of the Walking Together youth movement. In 2005-2008, the closed commissar camp of the youth movement "Nashi", for activists and commissars of the movement. In 2005, it was attended by about three thousand participants. The camp took place in one shift for two weeks and was divided into the following directions of movement: economic, social, tourist, mass actions. Commissars and activists of the Nashi movement from all regional and city branches gathered in the camp, shared their experiences, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Russia
The politics of Russia take place in the framework of the federation, federal semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republic of Russia. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister of Russia, Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President with the parliament's approval. Legislative power is vested in the Bicameralism, two houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, while the President and the government issue numerous legally binding by-laws. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, Russia has seen serious challenges in its efforts to forge a political system to follow nearly seventy-five years of Soviet governance. For instance, leading figures in the legislative and executive branches have put forth opposing views of Russia's political direction and the governmental instruments that should be u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev also served as the president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020. Medvedev was elected president in the 2008 election. He was regarded as more liberal than his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, who was also appointed prime minister during Medvedev's presidency. Medvedev's top agenda as president was a wide-ranging modernisation programme, aiming at modernising Russia's economy and society, and lessening the country's reliance on oil and gas. During Medvedev's tenure, the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty was signed by Russia and the United States, Russia emerged victorious in the Russo-Georgian War, and recovered from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva (russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Алексе́ева, ; 20 July 1927 – 8 December 2018) was a Russian people, Russian historian and human-rights activist who was a founding member in 1976 of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group and one of the last Soviet dissidents active in post-Soviet Russian Federation, Russia. Biography Soviet period In April 1968, Alexeyeva was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party and fired from her job at the publishing house. Nonetheless, she continued her activities in defense of human rights. From 1968 to 1972 she worked clandestinely as a typist for the first underground bulletin ''Chronicle of Current Events, The Chronicle of Current Events'' devoted to human rights violations in the USSR. In February 1977, Alexeyeva fled from the USSR to the United States following a crackdown against members of ''The Chronicle'' by Soviet authorities. In the US Alexeyeva continued to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Gudkov
Gennady Vladimirovich Gudkov (russian: Генна́дий Влади́мирович Гудко́в; born 15 August 1956, Kolomna) is a Russian politician and businessman. ''The Moscow Times'' described him in 2012 as "one of parliament's most vocal and charismatic critics" of President Vladimir Putin. Background Gudkov received a degree in languages, an English specialist, from Kolomna State Pedagogical Institute in 1978. He speaks both English and German. After graduation, he served in the Soviet Army from 1978 until 1980 and during his enlistment, he joined the Communist Party. After his service in the Soviet Army, he returned to Kolomna and worked with the Kolomna city Communist Party as an instructor in Komsomol and later as the head of operational and defense-mass work department (russian: заведующим отделом оперативной и оборонно-массовой работы). He joined the KGB, the Soviet Union's national security agency, in 1981, wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Varlamov
Ilya Aleksandrovich Varlamov (russian: link=no, Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Варла́мов; born January 7, 1984, Moscow) is a Russian public figure, journalist, entrepreneur and video blogger. He is the creator of author's media based on the LiveJournal blogging platform (later on Teletype). Founder of the advertising and development agency "iCube", co-founder of the , founder and head of the "Vnimanie" foundation for the preservation of cultural heritage. He is known for his photo reports from the actions of the political opposition in Russia and in the world, as well as materials about the urban environment in Russian cities. Since 2017, he has been actively running a YouTube channel called "varlamov", in which Ilya devotes most of the materials to the topics of urban studies, politics and news in Russia and the world. As of November 28, 2022, the channel has 4 million subscribers and 1235 million views. Biography Varlamov was born and raised in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemy Troitsky
Artemy Kivovich Troitsky (; , born 16 June 1955 in Yaroslavl) is a Russian journalist, music critic, concert promoter, radio host, and academic who has lectured on music journalism at Moscow State University. "He is an anarchist, pacifist and one of the most prominent Russian Kremlin critics in the Baltic States. Journalist and music critic Artemy Troitsky is known for his impudence and sharpness," is how journalist Tigran Petrosyan describes him. He was born in Yaroslavl, then in the Soviet Union. In 1988, he was described in ''The New York Times'' as "the leading Soviet rock critic." In 1986, Troitsky was one of the organizers of the "Account No. 904" rock concert, modeled on Live Aid, to raise funds for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, the first such concert in the Soviet Union. Currently, Troitsky is living in Tallinn, Estonia and works as a lecturer in Tallinn and Helsinki. Biography Artemy Troitsky was born on June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl, into the family of pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Parfenov
Leonid Gennadyevich Parfyonov (russian: Леонид Геннадьевич Парфёнов, born January 26, 1960, in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast) is a Russian journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999). From December 3, 2004, until December 20, 2007, he was an editor-in-chief of '' Russky Newsweek'', Russian edition of ''Newsweek''. From 2012 until 2018, Parfyonov was a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere. Career Selected filmography as narrator and producer * ''Namedni 1961–1991: Nasha Era'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Panyushkin
Valery Panyushkin (russian: link=no, Валерий Панюшкин; born June 26, 1969) is a Russian journalist and writer. Works * ''Узник тишины: История про то, как человеку в России стать свободным и что ему за это будет'', 2006 * ''Незаметная вещь'', 2006 * ''Газпром. Новое русское оружие'', 2008 * ''12 несогласных'' - 12 Who Don't Agree, 2009 * ''Михаил Ходорковский. Узник тишины 2'', 2009 * ''Код Горыныча: Что можно узнать о русском народе из сказок'', 2009 * ''Восстание потребителей'', 2012 * ''Код Кощея: Русские сказки глазами юриста'', 2012 * ''Рублевка: Player’s handbook'', 2013 * ''Все мои уже там. - Эксмо'', 2013 * ''Русские налоговые сказки'', 2014 External links Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Panfilova
Elena A. Panfilova is chairperson of the Center for Anti-corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International, the Russian chapter of Transparency International, and a director of Transparency International. She founded the chapter in 1999. Transparency International. Retrieved 25 May 2015. Panfilova was previously a professor in the School of Economics of the State University and is presently a professor in the graduate business school of . She lectures on business ethics and |
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