Vladimir Putin at a staged photo shoot with models posing as brides, which was later presented to Russian and foreign media as Putin's random encounter with a group of real brides who charmed him to take some "selfies" while encircled by bodyguards.
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. Consequently, Windows on Eurasia each week presents a selection of these other and typically neglected stories at the end of each week. Even then, it is far from complete, but perhaps one or more of these stories will prove of broader interest. A new survey finds that when Russians go online, they search for pornography three times more often than they do for Putin.
The study also found important regional differences in the kind of pornography residents of Russia like and in the length of time they spend at porn sites snob. And Putin this week was compared with Mussolini and Nicholas II, comparisons he may not welcome charter And it is entirely possible he might have been compared with Chingiz Khan had Russian media not censored the interview with Game of Thrones creator George R.
Martin themoscowtimes. A Moscow newspaper has pointed out that US President Donald Trump is quick to attack and condemn everyone except Vladimir Putin and neo-Nazi extremists, implicitly suggesting a link between the two ng. Meanwhile, the Russian media has distorted results from an international poll in order to claim that Trump is now less popular than the Kremlin leader business-gazeta. Various news reports this week suggest that however powerful Putin remains, his system is beginning to fray at the edges with subordinates acting increasingly at odds with what he might prefer or in ways that will only land the Kremlin leader in greater difficulty.
Russians have only been able to maintain or even increase spending by living on credit cards or with microloans, something unsustainable for long because of stratospheric interest rates enta. And there is no cushion: a third of Russians say they have no savings at all echo. None of this affects the ultrarich, however. Purchases by Russians of London property has risen 30 percent this year over last newsland.
