Russia’s former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today that he will think about whether to reclaim the presidency, which was one of the strongest signals yet that he may run again for President in 2012.
“I will think about it, there is still enough time,” Putin said, according to the AP. “Don’t hold your breath.”
Putin added that he wants to focus now on his job as premier and make sometimes unpopular decisions without …

Russia’s former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has given his strongest hint yet that he is considering a return to the Kremlin, a move that could allow the combative Russian leader to stay in power until 2024, The Times reports.
Putin insisted that swapping places with President Dmitry Medvedev was no more sinister than the Labour leadership agreement in which Gordon Brown took Tony Blair’s job.
Putin, who turns 57 next month, expounded on …

Russia has taken one step forward in creating its own “true” history by officially saying now that World War II was Poland’s fault. Russian Defence Ministry sources also said that Germany didn’t have a decisive role in eruption of the war, Estonian Daily Newspaper reports (translation follows).
“Second World War erupted because Poland declined to give in to Hitler’s demands to give up some of its territory to the fascists,” Defence Ministry sources were quoted saying. …

It is always a pleasure to see good things happening in Russia, considering the politics made in this country affect millions of people. Yesterday a new, anti-Kremlin and pro-democracy movement Solidarity (Солидарность) was formed in Russia, lead by former chess champion Garry Kasparov and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov.
The name Solidarity comes from former Polish anti-communist movement that was formed in Gdansk (Danzig) in 1980 and eventually played the key role in the collapse …

In Friday morning, one of the most well-known figures of Russia, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Churh, Alexius (Alexiy) II died. He was the head of the church for more than 18 years and probably one of the most loved people in whole Russia, considering the importance of the church and the patriarch himself in the country.
It’s said that it’s not nice to speak ill of the dead and the media seems mostly abide to …

Today 90 years ago, on Thursday, 28th of November, 1918, Soviet Russia attacked its tiny and young independent neighbour of Estonia. This date marks the beginning of Estonian Independence War, one of the two wars Russia has ever lost in history (the other being first Chechnya War).
In March 1918 Germany and Soviet Russia signed Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, which ended the First World War and in which Russia gave up its claims for Estonia and agreed …

Two statesmen again called for denouncing the crimes of Communism.
Former Estonian Prime Minister, famous face in Europe Mr. Mart Laar said in Germany:
“The main problem with achieving a common understanding of the history is the fact that crimes of Nazism are denounced, but that hasn’t happened to crimes of Communism. As we can’t justify the crimes of Nazism by fighting against Communism, we also can’t justify crimes of Communism by fighting against Nazism.”
Ukraine’s President Viktor …