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...self-titled Turkmenbashi, or Chief of all Turkmen - erected a golden statue of himself that rotated with the sun, and renamed days and months after family members. In Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev has had not one but two museums built in his honor. During his presidency, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was featured in children's books, his name was printed on women's underwear and portraits of him in various guises - as deep thinker, brave warrior and brawny fisherman - graced the walls of Russia's offices, businesses and schools. (See pictures of Putin...
...Kremlin United Russia party, led by Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin, has also submitted a bill to parliament that would make it a criminal offense to belittle the Soviet victory. Critics say these moves are aimed at stopping people from talking about the more unpleasant parts of the country's past and that they are a response to the revision of Soviet history in Russia's "near abroad," where many see the Soviet advance during the war not as a liberation but as the start of an occupation...
...even a spectacle like that could blind viewers to the controversies, which at times seemed louder than the songs. In March, Eurovision officials formally disinvited Georgia from participating because its entry, "We Don't Want to Put In," seemed to mock Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the wake of the conflict in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. On May 15, the chief of the Russian jury withdrew after he was spotted enjoying a caviar lunch with eventual winner Rybak in Moscow, potentially compromising his impartiality. (Read "Eurovision in Russia: Politics and Pop Music...
...White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet action-adventure film that cosmonauts traditionally - and superstitiously - watch before blasting off, ever since Gagarin watched it and returned alive from his first space flight. But Bogomolov has confidence that Russia can regain its standing as a space superpower. "[Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin is a strong leader. Now we know our path and we have a goal," he says, referring to the planned new moon rocket and cosmodrome. (See pictures of Putin...
...pictures of Putin's patriotic youth camp...