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Here’s what the MGU war memorial looked like on Sunday, just nine days after Victory Day: And here are some swastikas down by the river: Welcome to Potemkin Village.
If Yuri Luzhkov needed an anthem for his trips to Crimea, Joseph Brodsky’s 1991 poem on Ukraine’s independence (RUS) would, unfortunately, be a good fit. (The poem is posted on the blog of Soviet dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya.)
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 [...]
I’ve spent the past week in Moscow, with a nearly total kindergarten in and around my head: *** What little I’ve had of the adult stuff this week all had to do with my Global Voices reading, linking and translating. *** Oh, and I’ve also managed to read Olga Allenova’s text (RUS) on the current [...]
Putin and Medvedev: “Together we shall win!” I took this picture on Sunday, March 2, at Okhotnyi Ryad; the ad is posted on what used to be Hotel Moskva. Now, could someone please explain something to me. I’ve always thought that it was illegal to keep this kind of election campaign ads up until the [...]
Putin and Medvedev: “Together we shall win!” I took this picture on Sunday, March 2, at Okhotnyi Ryad; the ad is posted on what used to be Hotel Moskva. Now, could someone please explain something to me. I’ve always thought that it was illegal to keep this kind of election campaign ads up until the [...]
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. *** 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 [...]
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. *** 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 [...]
I’ve just finished reading the Putin-related part of Kommersant-Vlast‘s translation (RUS) of the transcript of what is said to be Badri Patarkatsishvili’s secretly taped conversation with Irakli Kodua, head of Special Operations Department of Georgia’s Internal Affairs Ministry – very interesting stuff. And now Patarkatsishvili is dead, allegedly of a heart attack. Kommersant-Vlast‘s full translation [...]
I’ve just finished reading the Putin-related part of Kommersant-Vlast‘s translation (RUS) of the transcript of what is said to be Badri Patarkatsishvili’s secretly taped conversation with Irakli Kodua, head of Special Operations Department of Georgia’s Internal Affairs Ministry – very interesting stuff. And now Patarkatsishvili is dead, allegedly of a heart attack. Kommersant-Vlast‘s full translation [...]
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