Archive for January, 2006

The comment section to this entry is pretty polluted by now, so I’ll post this here:
If these guys could do what they did to a fellow soldier, imagine what they might’ve done to a prisoner.
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Andrei Sychev’s condition has deteriorated, and he may not survive (via Gazeta.ru, in Russian).

The comment section to this entry is pretty polluted by now, so I’ll post this here:
If these guys could do what they did to a fellow soldier, imagine what they might’ve done to a prisoner.
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Andrei Sychev’s condition has deteriorated, and he may not survive (via Gazeta.ru, in Russian).

What happened in Katowice is so awful, so sad. Reading about it makes me feel as if Moscow’s Transvaal Park collapsed yesterday, not two years ago. Like then, I’ve now spent a while ignoring the story behind the headline, hoping it’ll pass, hoping there won’t be anything too newsworthy (read: so many casualties) for them [...]

What happened in Katowice is so awful, so sad. Reading about it makes me feel as if Moscow’s Transvaal Park collapsed yesterday, not two years ago. Like then, I’ve now spent a while ignoring the story behind the headline, hoping it’ll pass, hoping there won’t be anything too newsworthy (read: so many casualties) for them [...]

What happened in Katowice is so awful, so sad. Reading about it makes me feel as if Moscow’s Transvaal Park collapsed yesterday, not two years ago. Like then, I’ve now spent a while ignoring the story behind the headline, hoping it’ll pass, hoping there won’t be anything too newsworthy (read: so many casualties) for them [...]

Two guys knocked on our door a few days ago, during one of the blackouts, and introduced themselves to my mama as the Segodnya newspaper. Turned out they were looking for our elderly neighbor who lives one floor up: he had called the paper and complained about the situation with electricity.
On Friday, Segodnya ran [...]

Two guys knocked on our door a few days ago, during one of the blackouts, and introduced themselves to my mama as the Segodnya newspaper. Turned out they were looking for our elderly neighbor who lives one floor up: he had called the paper and complained about the situation with electricity.
On Friday, Segodnya ran [...]

A horrible thing has happened in Russia. Next to it, Abu Ghraib is like kindergarten.
This:
Soldier Loses Legs in Bullying Ordealby Nick Allen in Moscowtelegraph.co.uk
Russia’s defence minister yesterday condemned brutal bullying that left an army conscript fighting for his life as “shameful” and ordered a general to investigate.
The life of Andrei Sychev, 18, was “hanging [...]

A horrible thing has happened in Russia. Next to it, Abu Ghraib is like kindergarten.
This:
Soldier Loses Legs in Bullying Ordealby Nick Allen in Moscowtelegraph.co.uk
Russia’s defence minister yesterday condemned brutal bullying that left an army conscript fighting for his life as “shameful” and ordered a general to investigate.
The life of Andrei Sychev, 18, was “hanging [...]

A horrible thing has happened in Russia. Next to it, Abu Ghraib is like kindergarten.
This:
Soldier Loses Legs in Bullying Ordealby Nick Allen in Moscowtelegraph.co.uk
Russia’s defence minister yesterday condemned brutal bullying that left an army conscript fighting for his life as “shameful” and ordered a general to investigate.
The life of Andrei Sychev, 18, was “hanging [...]




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