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  • Geopolitical Diary: Putin's Loyal Opposition

    08/22/2006 11:55:38 AM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 1 replies · 199+ views
    stratfor.com ^ | August 18, 2006
    The deputy head of the Russian administration, Vladislav Surkov -- who serves as a designated mouthpiece for the policies of President Vladimir Putin -- has begun advocating the creation of a heftier opposition to the ruling United Russia party. Talk surfaced Thursday of a suggested merger between the nationalist-socialist Rodina (Motherland) Party, the Party of Life, and possibly the Party of Pensioners into a new opposition party in the Russian Duma. ...The two-party system is only being created for the benefit of Putin's (or his successor's) administration. The new party would serve the function of a loyal opposition to United...
  • Bill May Give Husbands Veto Over Abortion (Russia)

    11/26/2006 12:33:28 PM PST · by Lorianne · 21 replies · 1,034+ views
    The Moscow Times ^ | November 24, 2006
    State Duma deputies will consider a bill barring a wife from having an abortion without her husband's consent. "Above all, the bill is based on the concept of parental equality," its author, Alexander Krutov of the nationalist Rodina party, said Thursday. "The decision to give birth to or murder a baby is an enormous one and it should be made by the parents together," he said by telephone. The bill would require a wife to obtain her husband's written consent in the presence of a doctor before having an abortion. A doctor who allows an abortion without the written consent...