People and Power - Russias Two headed Leadership - 10 Mar 09 - Part 1

[pyetrovich]

bravo AJ, but where are the bears, drunken sailors and the balalaika?

[Zengaj1]

Жальв переводе нет

[mishkaru2002]

God please Bless Russia!

[MsRanilug]

Bog treba da ubije Rusiju, jer ubija neduzne civile

[TsarSamuil]

AlJazeera is anti-Russian!!

They get a theory and then just say..."it's fact, end of discussion"

[yulatheterror]

if you susbribe to AlJazeera your a muslim!

lol

[connect4raza]

MEDVEDEV IS A MOTHERFUCKER ZIONIST AGENT WHO IS SERVING THE INTERESTS OF AMERICA nd ISRAEL ND IS RUINING ALL THE HARDWORK OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AMERICA ND ISRAEL WANT 2 TURN THE MUSLIMS AGAINST THE RUSSIANS SO THEY CUD DISINTEGRATE ND DIVIDE RUSSIA MORE ND ON THE OTHER HAND ALL THE HATE THT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AGAINST AMERICA THEY WANT 2 TURN THE SAME HATE AGAINST THE RUSSIANS.

[connect4raza]

U CUD C HOW FRIENDLY PUTIN WAS WITH MUSLIM COUNTRIES MUSLIMS LIKED PUTIN VERY MUCH ND THEIR WAS QUITE A CALM IN MUSLIM DOMINATED RUSSIAN AREAS BUT THIS LITTLE ARSEHOLE MEDVEDEV IS RUINING ALL THE HARDWORK PUTIN DID FOR YEARS ND WANT 2 MAKE RUSSIA ONCE AGAIN HUMILIATED ND DIVIDED PUTIN HAD SUCH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN ND HE is RUING IT WANT 2 DRAGG RUSSIA 2 ANOTHER AFGHANISTAN LIKE HUMILIATING WAR.

[CellarDoorVI]

Although I adore your ploy to make it seem like you don't have malevolent intentions, you should probably keep your sympathy to yourself. Your media may tell another story as part of its anti-US bias, but the fact is that the economic problems in the US (which are not as bad as several other western countries) are nothing compared to the perpetual poverty in countries like your own.

If our economy got hit 10 times harder than it currently is, we'd still be better off than you and most others.

[sovietamerican2]

if your economy got hit 10 times more then others and the others were not doing anything damaging to their economies those other countries would actually be better off then the usa.

[CellarDoorVI]

It's funny that those 2 reasons you just mentioned can be applied to EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY that is being hard hit by the credit crisis. That includes the major players; Japan, Germany, UK, China, Russia, even France.

Blaming the US as if we're the only country with greedy businessmen and the only country whose policies via legislation caused the problems does only one thing: prove that you're a biased idiot. If no other countries participated in what the US was doing, they wouldn't be hurting.

[Khamomil]

Why the heck is part 2 exactly like part 1?

[joeaguirre0]

Its best to switch to capitalism to improve the economy in the short term then communism for the long term.

[xXTheHunterX360Xx]

mendelev is putin's puppet, united russia is just as bad as the communist party of the soviet union.

[VictimOfBoredom]

You actually think the English Al Jazeera is the same as the Arabic Al Jazeera?

This ain't the news regular Arabs watch. This is just the news they want non-Arabic speakers to THINK they're watching. ;)

Al Jazeera English is pretty great, though. But the Arabic one? Not so much. Much less neutral.

[aafaking]

Yea, the arabic aljazeera is dreadful, the Fox news of the middle east. but aljazeera english is very good

[Pillat07]

This story was laim. More history than anything. When the report Andrea spoke it was, well opinionated, more emotion that fact. The music they added just made the story worse. I think there is a lot more there but maybe this is media cesorship at work.

[themengsk176]

putin and medvedev seem to be following the byzantine model.

the emperor will always elect a trusted favorite as his kaisar to be his subordinate and immediate successor.

regardless, russia has many, many problems, not least among them a demographic decline and an underdeveloped economy not helped by dangerous investment conditions

[RUlegaleagle]

The only change is a grand sweeping constitutional reform to ensure absolute rule of law, judiciary independence. Constitutional, and enforceable restraints on the executive. Freedom of speech and equal protection of law (no pay to play, end to corruption) to everyone so private enterprise can flourish. LIBERATE RUSSIAN PEOPLE TO PAVE THE WAY FOR SELF-ACTUALIZATION.

[WKaliber1]

two? Putin still pulls the strings

[MasterNemesis102]

Al Jazeera has quite the hate on Russia lately

[CellarDoorVI]

If this was a Russian media source, they'd be glorifying Russia and blaming every single thing on the US. I bet in that case you wouldn't accuse anyone of hatred for the US, either that or you'd support it.

[matthewandrew]

putine!

[deidarajunior1508]

it's sad how the american caused crisis affects a great country like russia who've grown so incredibly strong after eight years with Putin, you can clearly see that capitalstic societys are devastated by the crisis, while communistic countrys however, like china, haven't been so devastated by the crisis. Although alot of chinese workers have now lost their jobs in the fabrics, due to the fact that people don't buy that much in crisises like this.

[krum369]

true.

[CellarDoorVI]

1) The economic crisis is not solely America's fault. If the rest of the world didn't behave the same way we did, it wouldn't have affected them.

2) Russia hasn't grown strong because of Putin. The reason Russia grew at the rate it did was because of the high price of oil.

3) China is not communist, and the true extent of the damage done to their economy and to average Chinese by the drop in US economic activity is being covered by up their media. They want to appear unaffected.

[teemuruskeepaa]

The animation is great