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I’ve spent the past week in Moscow, with a nearly total kindergarten in and around my head:

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What little I’ve had of the adult stuff this week all had to do with my Global Voices reading, linking and translating.
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Oh, and I’ve also managed to read Olga Allenova’s text (RUS) on the current mess in Chechnya, in [...]

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 – [...]

Over at Global Voices, there are 36 comments on a tiny item about that weird conflict between Greece and Macedonia (aka FYROM) – and 33 comments on a lovely roundup of the bloggers’ views on the issue, written by Elia Varela Serra.
It’s scary: nearly 70 comments, and some of them are pretty lengthy.
At the end [...]

Over at Global Voices, there are 36 comments on a tiny item about that weird conflict between Greece and Macedonia (aka FYROM) – and 33 comments on a lovely roundup of the bloggers’ views on the issue, written by Elia Varela Serra.
It’s scary: nearly 70 comments, and some of them are pretty lengthy.
At the end [...]

I wish I had the strength to announce that this blog is kaput, but I can’t.
Global Voices takes up too much of my time, and then there’s Facebook, and Odnoklassniki.ru – where I somehow have 85 friends already, and most of them are probably mad at me by now, because I tend to vanish right [...]

I wish I had the strength to announce that this blog is kaput, but I can’t.
Global Voices takes up too much of my time, and then there’s Facebook, and Odnoklassniki.ru – where I somehow have 85 friends already, and most of them are probably mad at me by now, because I tend to vanish right [...]

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 [...]




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    • Because once you've seen these images and read testimonies/reports, it's impossible to ever forget. 1 day ago
    • A false assumption that concerned readers who visit this blog need such graphic reminders of the atrocity so often. 1 day ago
    • To remind readers of a relatively recent atrocity, one blogger repeatedly posts horrifying photos of human remains exhumed from mass graves. 1 day ago
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    • Time of the year when dressing Marta for a walk is so exhausting: when both of us are ready, I wish she could go on that walk by herself. 4 days ago
    • While I'm at it, here's another GV translation of another Rus photographer's post - Oleg Klimov's - on extreme poverty http://bit.ly/7kL7m5 5 days ago
    • I often catch myself thinking that many people who complain abt low salaries aren't qualified to get paid at all. Not always the case, sure. 5 days ago
    • This post has, of course, reminded me of the time we were searching for papa, how the cops didn't have paper to print the Missing posters on 5 days ago
    • My GV translation of Sergei Maximishin's post on bureaucracy & incompetence @ Ukr defense ministry http://bit.ly/4yU5Hq 5 days ago
    • Am translating this wonderful text http://bit.ly/4OWrCU (RUS) by my favorite photographer, Sergei Maximishin. Furious. 5 days ago