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Just like three years ago, Putin farts and everyone comes running to smell it.
On Sept. 13, 2004, just ten days after the bloody end of the Beslan siege, Putin managed to divert everyone’s attention by ending the system of supposedly direct popular election of Russia’s governors.
Now, according to Putin, instead of thinking about the mess [...]
Masha Gessen’s column on Beslan in the Moscow Times – Beslan Demands Words, Not Silence (via A Step at a Time):
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This is also what we are all invited to do next week, on the first anniversary of Beslan, when the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi is organizing a silent rally. “No Words” says the white-on-black poster [...]
We’ve just had another explosion – in Moscow, near a subway station, at least ten people dead, though I don’t know whether this includes the woman who blew herself up or not. What a day. Full moon. It normally takes me about three to four days to recover – but then it happens again. The [...]
It doesn’t look like they are trying very hard to hide… Though if one assumes that some terrorists are terrorists and others are freedom fighters, then it’s different, of course (and I don’t just mean Hamas here; there’s also Mr. Zakayev living very comfortably in London and pretending to speak for the thousands of displaced [...]
Yesterday, I saw this name on the list of the dead: V. Meglinskaya. I wanted to call Mishah at work because this is the last name of one of his colleagues in Moscow – she’s Irina, but it could have been her relative. But then I got too upset to call him.
He told me [...]
They haven’t determined yet whether the planes went down because of terrorist attacks – but if they do, the relatives of the victims won’t get a cent because, even though all the passengers were insured, the insurance doesn’t cover death as the result of a terrorist act. If these were “just” accidents, they’ll get some [...]
Some pretty disastrous things always happen in August here: it’s become a cliche by now, and everyone’s expecting the worst. The coup that brought the Soviet Union to its collapse took place on August 19, 1991 (which was a good thing for many, though; today – well, yesterday – is/was the Independence Day in Ukraine); [...]
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