Alexey Navalny: Lawyer, social activist, founder of the RosPil anti-corruption portal
"It does not matter whether it is March 2012 or 2013. In general, dates and deadlines don't matter. The specific date of the elections doesn't matter. Putin and his gang have exercised their political will in usurping power in Russia, using it for their own enrichment. They will remain in power as long as we do not exercise our political will and do not remove them from power. Therefore, the forecast does not depend on what Putin does. The forecast depends solely on us."
This and the following portraits are part of a unique portfolio by noted photographer Kirill Nikitenko, and curated by Elena Khodorkovskaya, in conjunction with the Institute of Modern Russia. They are on exhibit at the 25CPW Gallery in New York City, through Dec. 12.
KIRILL NIKITENKO



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BOBBIEMAC
12:02 AM ET
December 6, 2011
Russia
anti-corruption, come on we know this is a joke. Nothing new there. Seems where there is government there will always be the sly under handed officials that will take pay offs. No country is immune to this. The world needs to find new strategies to over come these type problems.
FOMIREX
2:25 AM ET
December 6, 2011
Anti-Putin Politics
That's sad. Ad the above comment says "no country is immune to this". I was thinking about the upcoming election. One of my Russian friends said that it is obvious that Putin's party will win the election. I am not a Russian so I do not have any sense regarding Russia's internal dynamics but this is what is happening all around the world. Many countries suffer from the same fact! We need to do something.
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DANADAMS
9:41 AM ET
December 6, 2011
One man controls the media
One man controls the media and the organs of state finance and force = one winner. It was the same under Yeltsin. Its basically been the same for 100 years.
However times are changing somewhat. Forums for expression do exist outside of the mainstream media. Those forums need to coalesce into real political power. Easier said that done.
REMIX919
1:26 PM ET
December 6, 2011
Misleading Picture
I'm neutral in this debate, but I got to say, I hate how the media always will use the WORST picture that they can possibly find to put at the beginning of an article that smashes on someone, that initial picture instantly puts the public in an antagonistic view against the person or object in question, thus making it no longer neutral.
- John Carr
GRANT
3:13 PM ET
December 6, 2011
Can you find anything good to
Can you find anything good to say about modern Russia?
ALSET
8:09 PM ET
December 7, 2011
Russia has never participated in wars of conquest
Russia has never participated in wars of conquest, it is always just defended. Russia also helped America in its struggle for independence from England.
DONKISSOTES
6:18 PM ET
December 16, 2011
same question, in fact, the
same question, in fact, the news about anti-Putin movement remains the world's attention. I'll wait and hold the news about it
KHAREN0017
8:38 AM ET
December 7, 2011
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CARDSHARP
1:26 PM ET
December 7, 2011
It was the FP's neoliberal brigade that did it the first time
Now you guys want another go at it? Remember it was FP friendly Harvard types that recommended the diasterous economic policy in the 90's, pushing the Russian people toward authoritarian figures like Putin for a good dose of stability.
People seldom learn from their mistakes, neoliberals peddling an ideology even less often.
FORDNATICS
4:41 PM ET
December 7, 2011
Anti-Putin Brigade
This gang have exercised their political will in usurping power in Russia, using it for their own enrichment.front load washer magazin erotic
KALEMARO
2:16 AM ET
December 8, 2011
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TOPIDYTOO
2:43 AM ET
December 8, 2011
Afraid
I don't think anyone is willing to go up against him.. Seeing his past, it's quite scary to even attempt.
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QUADROPLAY
12:48 PM ET
December 8, 2011
Putin is the only solution
Putin is the only solution for all current Russian problems including european missile defense system and russian-nato war in the nearest future
DITTYGIRL
3:50 AM ET
December 9, 2011
The Russian people are sick
The Russian people are sick of their "leaders", the Iranian people are sick of their "leaders" and are standing up. If the tyrants of these regimes could stop these people they wouldn't have gotten this far to begin with. Both regimes have a history of the most thorough purging processes and yet these rebellious types keep showing up. Don't believe the Chinese koelcel te koop people have been reduced to the docile obedience the ChiComs would have us believe either. Tyranny may have their "pro Kremlin youth groups" or Iranian "student groups"(good thing our tyrants don't have anything tandenknarsen bitje like these student "astroturf" groups here, right)but tyrants always have to pay for the loyalty which means tyranny is losing, these prostitutes do it for traiteur the love of money or delusion of power, not love or loyalty of the tyrant.
CATHERINE A. FITZPATRICK
6:14 PM ET
December 11, 2011
Were you there?
A few weeks ago, when these photos were shown in New York, did Foreign Policy even go to the show?
It was sponsored by Khodorkovsky's institute and I wonder if they would have bothered. It wasn't cool then. Articles like "well, let's all resign ourselves to the inevitability of Putin" from Julia Ioffe were cool.
Now all of a sudden these people who you've ignored for years are big news!
Funny, that.
FREEDOMRIDER
6:43 PM ET
December 12, 2011
Wake Up!!!
Some remarks to the “freedom lovers/Putin haters” from above:
Your grasp of the eastern as well as the western world is pathetic and I suspect Julia Ioffe’s propaganda and the like should claim the credit!
Picking other nations’ dirty laundry sure does bring the self-assurance and conviction we so desperately crave…Sorry to spoil the party.
You were so quick to denounce the tyrant but you fall short from calling for air strikes to teach him a lesson…
You bring up Putin’s shady past, but none of you would take the same surgical fervor and dig into the past of former American presidents (Bush I, Bush II, JFK and LBJ, to name a few)
You point out the protests and unrest in Russia, but you are not concerned about our own handling of protests at home...
Did you hear about the new National Defense Authorization Act passed in secrecy and designed to conspire and take your civil liberties away?
You are outraged at the fact that Putin controls the media in Russia…
Oh, well, who controls the media elsewhere? Wake up, sleepy heads you live in the wonderland of the Wizard of Oz…
PAUL FROM NO VA
11:51 AM ET
December 13, 2011
A frightening gallery...
...in which most of the men, with the possible exception of of Kovalev and Shenderovich, look like either James Bond villains or their sadistic henchmen. These stuck me as, for the most part, absolutely mortifying and dehumanizing photographs of courageous human beings putting themselves on the line against a paranoid, vengeful regime. The women fare better, but not uniformly - what are we, for example, supposed to think of the photo of Tamar Morschakova, who looks here like a deranged worshiper of Ayn Rand sending out brainwaves to the initiates? Feh...
VENICHKA
1:09 PM ET
December 15, 2011
Defensive?
"Russia has only engaged in wars of defence"?What are you drinking? Wars of conquest: Caucasus, Siberia, Poland, Finland, Baltics, ---I think what you mean to say is Russia is better at defence than offence. Why no Limonov? He's more popular than 90% of the "dissidents"...is it because he espouses unpopular ideas?