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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 [...]




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    • Wifi modem died @ 4:30AM. Maybe it's for the better - I do need a break. But no internet means my backlog will grow. Feeling desperate... 9 hours ago
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    • Transcarpathian TV: 3 channels; monthly salary UAH 1,000-1,500 ($120-$180); equipment scarce; politics abounds (UKR) http://bit.ly/7pvI7K 1 day ago
    • Same piece on U.S. spin doctors in Ukr, but a bit off-topic: Taras Kuzio is the only guy who's quoted saying "the Ukraine" - twice. Wild. 2 days ago
    • "So why go to New Jersey and lose for 100 grand when you [can] go to Peru and lose for a million?” (James Carville, Clinton's ex-strategist) 2 days ago
    • <-- ...a little bit damaging to your reputation. But if you go to Peru and you run a presidential race and you lose, no one knows or cares." 2 days ago
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    • Yulia, our Janus: after her fun chat w/ Putin, her MPs draft a bill to recognize UPA fighters as WWII combatants http://bit.ly/7GXKG4 (RUS) 2 days ago
    • So, 5 years since Maidan, we have a Putin-friendly Tymoshenko & a Yanukovych who's sort of critical of Putin :) http://bit.ly/08rYzbN (RUS) 3 days ago
    • Bookmarks restored. Nearly all of them. Hated to be reminded of how much I depend on technology. 4 days ago
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    • Not sure why, but I always compare Ukr/Rus $bn figures (e.g. Ukr's $28bn in reserves) to Khodorkovsky's pre-arrest $15bn personal fortune... 1 week ago