Archive for February, 2007
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, February 28, 2007
On Monday, after nearly ten months of deliberation, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre was an act of genocide, but that the pattern of the atrocities committed by Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-1995 war (which claimed more than 100,000 lives) was “too broad” to [...]
Global Voices OnlineSunday, February 25, 2007
LJ user bogomolov (Aleksandr Bogomolov, a Russian journalist) shares this story about a dream come true (RUS):
An old joke, very good, very clever:
Two Soviet violinists are in the same train compartment, on the way back home from abroad, from an international music competition. The first one, a “plainclothes” violinist [an [...]
Via LJ user dolboeb (Anton Nossik, RUS), an 8-minute video posted on YouTube by the Nashi movement: an attempt to scare the young men of Russia into getting drafted – if you continue to hide from the Army in those useless universities and grad schools, the Fat Man USA is gonna show up here and [...]
Via LJ user dolboeb (Anton Nossik, RUS), an 8-minute video posted on YouTube by the Nashi movement: an attempt to scare the young men of Russia into getting drafted – if you continue to hide from the Army in those useless universities and grad schools, the Fat Man USA is gonna show up here and [...]
I’m still reading about spetsnaz and guns and all that, and, as if by request, here’s a New York Times piece on the Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk, by C.J. Chivers – AK-47 Museum: Homage to the Gun That Won the East:
On the surface, the museum, opened late in 2004, serves as Russia’s monument to an [...]
I’m still reading about spetsnaz and guns and all that, and, as if by request, here’s a New York Times piece on the Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk, by C.J. Chivers – AK-47 Museum: Homage to the Gun That Won the East:
On the surface, the museum, opened late in 2004, serves as Russia’s monument to an [...]
I’m still reading about spetsnaz and guns and all that, and, as if by request, here’s a New York Times piece on the Kalashnikov Museum in Izhevsk, by C.J. Chivers – AK-47 Museum: Homage to the Gun That Won the East:
On the surface, the museum, opened late in 2004, serves as Russia’s monument to an [...]
Here’s the comment I’ve written as a guest blogger for PostGlobal’s sidebar – a sort of a response to this week’s questions by David Ignatius: “Russia’s back with a vengeance. Is Putin justified in criticizing NATO expansion? Should Russia’s neighbors worry?“
As a rather peaceful citizen of one of Russia’s neighbors, I certainly hope that Putin’s [...]
Here’s the comment I’ve written as a guest blogger for PostGlobal’s sidebar – a sort of a response to this week’s questions by David Ignatius: “Russia’s back with a vengeance. Is Putin justified in criticizing NATO expansion? Should Russia’s neighbors worry?“
As a rather peaceful citizen of one of Russia’s neighbors, I certainly hope that Putin’s [...]
From Kazachkov’s spetsnaz book, I learn that what became known as zachistka (a mop-up) in Chechnya, used to be called prichyoska (a hair-do) in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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