Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Radio news on Russian politics

Juliette Zener who teaches at Newton Country Day School in Massachusetts recommended this bit of reporting from yesterday's Morning Edition on National Public Radio. If you'd like a bit of audio to accompany a textbook or supplementary reading on the politics within the Russian political elite, this is good.

Russian Clans Drive Kremlin Infighting

The NPR web site describes this 5-minute report this way: "To many outsiders, the Kremlin seems like a monolithic power base controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But some observers see the Russian government as increasingly split by internal rivalries."


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BTW, Happy birthday (February 12, 1809) to A. Lincoln and C. Darwin.


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