Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
Global Voices OnlineTuesday, June 10, 2008 An interesting discussion on the freedom of the press in Russia took place in the New York Times’ Russian-language LJ community: an article by Clifford J. Levy, translated into Russian, received over 1,000 comments from the Russian bloggers, and 45 of these comments were then translated into English and [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, May 31, 2008 On May 12, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was declared persona non grata in Ukraine, following his calls for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. (Earlier GV translations about the incident are here and here.) On May 15, Russia denied entry to Vladyslav Kaskiv, [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 22, 2008 Last week, Ukraine banned Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov from the country, after he called for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. The incident received much coverage in the Russian and Ukrainian media and blogs; some bloggers’ reactions can be found in an earlier [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 22, 2008 Last December, journalist Natalia Morar was barred from entering Russia and deported to her native Moldova after a Russian weekly magazine published a series of her stories about alleged siphoning of huge sums of money out of Russia by the country’s high-ranking officials (a GV translation on Morar’s ordeal [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 15, 2008 Russian photographer Oleg Klimov (translation of his travel notes from Russia’s Far East are here and here) visited a commercial greenhouse outside Moscow and posted his observations (RUS) about a birthplace of the roses one buys in Russia’s capital: [two photos from the greenhouse] Why is it considered romantic [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, May 15, 2008 Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov got himself barred from Ukraine this week, after announcing during a trip to Sevastopol – “a Ukrainian naval base mutually used by the Ukrainian Navy and Russian Navy” – that the city did not belong to Ukraine. Below are a few opinions from the Russophone [...]
Global Voices OnlineSunday, May 11, 2008 Victory Day was as much of an event in the Russian blogosphere as it was in the streets of Moscow and other Russian cities on May 9. LJ user kkk147 went for a morning bike ride and happened upon the departure of missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry for [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, May 7, 2008 On Wednesday, Dmitry Medvedev became Russia’s third post-Soviet president. LJ user kozenko – Andrey Kozenko, journalist for the Russian daily Kommersant – wrote this (RUS) about the legacy of the outgoing president, Vladimir Putin: [...] I feel all but indifferent about Putin’s departure. Nothing to thank him for. He [...]
Global Voices OnlineTuesday, May 6, 2008 The Russian opposition was to hold a protest rally on May 6 in Moscow, on the eve of Dmitry Medvedev‘s inauguration as president Vladimir Putin‘s replacement, but city officials refused to allow it – and leaders of the oppositional coalition, the Other Russia, ended up canceling the Dissenters’ March [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, April 23, 2008 On April 22, Vladimir Lenin would have turned 138 – and quite a few Russophone bloggers still remember the date. Oleg Panfilov – LJ user oleg_panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations – chose to write (RUS) about his native city – Khujand, Tajikistan – which [...]
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