Europe de l'Est
Russia’s Big Chill.
As the world financial crisis buffets country after country, Russia has been caught out because of its unhealthy overdependence on oil, gas and metals, which account for more than three-quarters of export earnings. The collapse in energy and commodity prices since this summer is exposing the country’s fragility: Russia’s boom, it turns out, was built on expensive oil,and precious little else. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms.This all amounts to the first serious test of “Putinomics” - the domestic policies put in place by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the two terms of his presidency from 2000 to 2008. If you want to take the pulse of Russia, as its economic progress of the past few years comes to a sudden and wrenching stop, leave behind Moscow and drive 354 km southwest to the small Russian town of Lyudinovo.There everything slows down.
Photos by ©Justin Jin/LightMediation
Contact - LightMediation Photo Agency - +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Kosovo : a « newborn » country.
The ” NEWBORN ” monument, which thrones in the city center of Pristina,symbolizes by itself the situation of the country.Kosovo is a “newborn”, it will be one year old on February 17th, 2009: it is the youngest country in the world.
A Photo story by ©Bruno Fert/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The Nenets people: an exemplary struggle.
Living on the Yamal Peninsula in the far north of Siberia, above the Arctic Circle where the temperatures can goas low as -50°C, Man survives thanks to an animal: the reindeer. Breeders,the Nenets people, numbering approximately 10,000, continue to perpetuate a nomad way of life. They journey nearly 70 times a year overmore than 1000 km looking for pasture of white lichen, the main food sourcefor the herds. The Nenets people are the largest group of reindeer breeders on the planet, but for how much longer? What is the future for these peoples who live on top of a treasure coveted by the entire world: the biggest gasfield on Earth? Like all the indigenous populations of Siberia, the Nenets people are today threatened by adominant population, the Russians, and also by the intensive exploitation of the resource found on their territory.
A Photo story by ©Mathieu Amar/LightMediation
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Daniel Lorieux : an extravagant photographic shoot in Moscow… by Alphonse Bernard Seny
It’s the most extravagant and most expensive shoot of these last ten years. The star portrays, in front of Jean-Daniel Lorieux’s camera, the heroine from the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov.
A dream come true for the Russian billionaire Eugene Yakovlev.
Contact - Thierry Tinacci - LightMediation Photo Agency +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
Russia Rising…
From the ashes of the Soviet Union, Russia has again risen to world power status, flushed with money, oil and attitude. The country has embraced capitalism and flung its door wide open to all the luxuries money can buy. Yet dark forces remain. The country is dominated by one man, Vladimir Putin, and democracy is dead. This series looks at the winners and losers of Russia’s resurgence and asks why people are willing to support Putinism, and exchange freedom for wealth. From military brass to social elites, oligarchs to construction workers, this series looks at those participating in the modern Russia.
Photos by ©Justin Jin/LightMediation
Contact - LightMediation Photo Agency - Thierry Tinacci +33 (0)6 61 80 57 21 thierry[AT]lightmediation.com
The lost civilisation of Baïkal lake
As far as we know, Baïkal held generations of hunters-fishers; but, says Andrzej Weber, between 4,000 and 5,000 years BC, there is a gap in history! This is where they made this amazing discovery: there is a hiatus of 1,200 years, a bio-cultural discontinuity among local populations bloodline. Why did the inhabitants of Neolithic disappeared ? Did their civilisation suddenly died out ? Andrzej Weber thinks that they were the victims of a climate catastrophe…
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- Lengh 2 467 028
- Author Marc Roussel / Orizon / Lightmediation
- Date Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:38:36 +0100
