Archive for the 'blogosphere' Category
No photos from this year’s Victory Day, as we were returning from Istanbul on May 9. Instead, here’s the stuff that our building’s concierges posted on the walls by the entrance and inside the two elevators (as they say here, one elevator’s for the wife, the other’s for the mistress, to keep them from running [...]
It’s been a week since Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. There are 720 messages on his Odnoklassniki.ru page now. And 241 on his last blog post. Rest in peace, Ilyas. That’s what most of them say, more or less.
Channel 1, for which he worked, is a shithole. After watching part of their Sunday newscast, a dear friend [...]
It’s been a week since Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. There are 720 messages on his Odnoklassniki.ru page now. And 241 on his last blog post. Rest in peace, Ilyas. That’s what most of them say, more or less.
Channel 1, for which he worked, is a shithole. After watching part of their Sunday newscast, a dear friend [...]
I’m very upset about Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. I’ve been reading his blog on and off for about half a year – some of the stuff he wrote was funny, some insightful, and he seemed like a truly wonderful person. In a way, it’s like losing a friend.
I’ve finally finished a translation on his murder – [...]
I’m very upset about Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. I’ve been reading his blog on and off for about half a year – some of the stuff he wrote was funny, some insightful, and he seemed like a truly wonderful person. In a way, it’s like losing a friend.
I’ve finally finished a translation on his murder – [...]
I’m very upset about Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. I’ve been reading his blog on and off for about half a year – some of the stuff he wrote was funny, some insightful, and he seemed like a truly wonderful person. In a way, it’s like losing a friend.
I’ve finally finished a translation on his murder – [...]
I’m very upset about Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. I’ve been reading his blog on and off for about half a year – some of the stuff he wrote was funny, some insightful, and he seemed like a truly wonderful person. In a way, it’s like losing a friend.
I’ve finally finished a translation on his murder – [...]
I’ve just finished a GV translation of the Russophone reactions to Kosovo – here.
An earlier roundup of the English-language reactions (along with 20 or so comments) – here.
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AP’s Mike Eckel has done a piece on the Russian blogosphere (a somewhat truncated copy – here), and below is my very sketchy supplement to it (all links [...]
I’ve just finished a GV translation of the Russophone reactions to Kosovo – here.
An earlier roundup of the English-language reactions (along with 20 or so comments) – here.
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AP’s Mike Eckel has done a piece on the Russian blogosphere (a somewhat truncated copy – here), and below is my very sketchy supplement to it (all links [...]
About a week ago, I tried leaving a comment on Paul Goble’s Window On Eurasia blog – but since he chose not to publish it, I’ll blog about it here.
In Goble’s post on renaming streets in the former Soviet Union, there’s this mention of Ukraine:
[...] But it is in Ukraine where name changes may generate [...]


