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WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 CONTENTS (1) EDITORIAL: Barbaric Russia, most Warlike of Nations (2) EDITORIAL: Clinton blasts Russian Barbarism (3) Do you dare call THIS anything but Russian Barbarism? (4) In Love of Stalin, Russian Barbarism laid Bare (5) CARTOON NOTE: LR publisher and founder Kim Zigfeld sings the praises of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in his amazing battle...
EDITORIAL: Barbaric Russia, most Warlike of Nations
EDITORIAL Russia, most Warlike of Nations According to Australian think tank Vision of Humanity, only eight of 133 world nations surveyed are more warlike and less peaceful than Vladimir Putin’s Russia. You read that right: Russia is in the bottom 10% of all world nations when ranked for peacefulness. The likes of Zimbabwe...
EDITORIAL: Clinton Blasts Russian Barbarism
EDITORIAL Clinton Blasts Russian Barbarism Last week, after more than one year in office, the Clinton State Department finally opened fire on Russia’s litany of human rights atrocities. The Kremlin lashed out at the effort in a typical neo-Soviet frenzy. The DOS report made a particular issue out of Russian barbarity in the...
Do you dare call THIS anything but Russian Barbarism?
ABC News reports: Stanislav Sutyagin was planning to sell his large black Mercedes but it now has a huge dent in its right side. He’s getting money to fix the damage, but it’s not coming from his insurance company or the driver who hit him. The government is compensating Sutyagin after...
In love of Stalin, Russian Barbarism laid Bare
FOX News reports (click through for video): If there was an award for despicable legacies Joseph Stalin would rank right up there with Hitler and Mao for the men with the most blood on their hands. By conservative estimates the man who led the Soviet Union for 30 years until his...
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Davis finishes season with another 1,000M win
Shani Davis edged the Netherlands pair of Stefan Groothuis and Mark Tuitert on Sunday to complete the season with another win in the 1,000 meters....
Russia: Terek Grosny go joint top with Rubin
Terek Grosny went to the top of the Russian Premier Liga with a 2-0 victory over Sibir Novosibirsk thanks to goals from Andrei Kobenko and Shamil Asildarov....
Frenchman Tamgho sets world-best triple jump
Bernard Lagat has won the 3,000 meters at the world indoor championships by running down defending champion Tariku Bekele in the final laps....
Sharks-Ducks Preview...
Kuznetsova falls victim to errors at Indian Wells
Svetlana Kuznetsova had a succinct explanation for losing her opening match at the BNP Paribas Open....
Hiddink pulls name from Elephants' coaching list
Guus Hiddink has pulled out of the race to lead Ivory Coast at the World Cup in June....
Russian Athletics: News
Firova finishes second with PB
Russian Athletics News. Tatyana Firova finished second in the women’s 400m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha. She set a PB of 51.13...
Feofanova takes silver, Isinbayeva places fourth
Russian Athletics News. Svetlana Feofanova took the silver medal in the women’s pole vault at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha. She cleared 4.80m. Yelena Isinbayeva placed fourth with 4.60m...
Russian Athletics News. Anna Pyatykh took the bronze medal in the women’s triple jump at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. She achieved her SB of 14.64m...
Russian Athletics News. Tatyana Chernova took the bronze medal in the women’s pentathlon at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar. She could beat Hyleas Fountain (USA) in the 800m...
Russian Athletics News. Aleksey Drozdov took the first medal for the Russian team at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha placing 3rd in the men’s heptathlon. He scored 6141 points...
Gold for Ukhov, silver for Rybakov
Russian Athletics News. Ivan Ukhov won the gold medal in the men’s high jump at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha. He cleared 2.36m. Yaroslav Rybakov took the silver medal with 2.31...
Siberian Light
Why so little internet in Ukraine?
Why do only 10% of Ukrainians have internet access when more than 33% of their Belarussian neighbours have access?Check out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. Why so little internet in Ukraine? Related posts:Football: How to watch England vs Ukraine Live OnlineFlowers Ukraine...
Russian family jump to deaths from Scottish tower block
Tragic story of a Russian family that plunged to their deaths from a Glasgow tower block after failing to receive asylum in the UK. Check out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. Russian family jump to deaths from Scottish tower block Related posts:Military...
Putin on the Ritz – A New Take on an old Classic
A new take on the old Putin on the Ritz classicCheck out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. Putin on the Ritz – A New Take on an old Classic Related posts:Introducing my new website: Russian News OnlineNew Year, New LookPutin doodles...
Russia qualify for Rugby World Cup!
For the first time in their history, Russia qualify for the Rugby World Cup Finals.Check out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. Russia qualify for Rugby World Cup! Related posts:European Nations Cup Rugby: Russia and Georgia march onRugby: Russia Beat Portugal 14-10European Nations...
European Nations Cup Rugby: Russia and Georgia march on
Wins for Russia and Georgia in this weekend's round of European Nations Cup matches means that these two teams have all but secured their qualification to the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Check out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. European Nations...
Rugby: Russia Beat Portugal 14-10
Russia took a giant step towards qualification for the Rugby World Cup by edging Portugal 14-10 in a tense encounter in Sochi this weekend. Check out Russian News Online for the latest stories from all the top Russia Blogs. Rugby: Russia Beat Portugal 14-10 Related posts:European Nations Cup Rugby:...
Sean's Russia Blog
Time for everyone to put on their Kremlinologist thinking cap again! Get ready to roll those chicken bones and peer deeply into the tea leaves. The boys in the Kremlin are up to their tricks again. According to Trud, Medvedev is creating a new political party. The move...
The theme of my last post on how International Women's Day has been transformed from a public to a private holiday reminded of the enormous advertisement for Elle Magazine at Lubyanka Square covering Detskii Mir. The ad is a blend of revolution, feminism, and consumerism with its depiction of...
One hundred years ago today, the First International Women's Congress adopted International Women's Day as a day of struggle for women's rights. But in Russia, where the holiday, what was once a day calling for a "struggle against patriarchy," has in many ways become patriarchy's reinforcement....
In Russia, the time of great campaigns has returned. In Soviet times, we broke new ground and planted corn. Then we fought against drunkenness and concerned ourselves with economic acceleration. We were not always successful, but certainly in the real world. Today's Russia proclaims the slogan of modernization. But so...
Russian chinovniki are known for a lot of things--graft, ineptitude, oblomovism, and when necessary, zealous obsequiousness. Sometimes, the latter leads the chinovnik to take preemptive action in hopes to satisfy the leader even if the latter is not looking to be satisfied. Take for example, the recent hilarious incident in...
It just goes to show that the sleuths in Russia can work fast when the want to. Witness how it took them a mere month to catch the internationally infamous hacker who placed porno on a Moscow billboard. And get this, they caught him not in Moscow, but...
Russia Blog
Assessing the Russia's Winter Olympic Team's Performance
In honor of a great gold medal game, a photo taken right after the USA tied Canada near the end of regulation time in a thriller won by Canada. English language mass media has had a plethora of articles......
Today, National Public Radio has a piece on President Medvedev’s plans to curb Russian consumption of vodka. If NPR’s source is to be believed, czar Peter the Great fostered a culture where people were actually encouraged to drink more to......
Trade in “Bush Legs” for Jackson-Vanik
Back in 1974 Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson and Representative Charles Vanik introduced an amendment to a trade law with the purpose of punishing the Soviet Union and other communist countries for the denial of emigration rights to their citizens. At......
Stakes are High for the Russian Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Team
Russian ice hockey player Alexei Morozov was flag bearer for his country at the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics As the home team, Canada's Olympians have an extra perk to do well in Vancouver. Canada is particularly......
Bering Strait Crossing – Why We Should Do It
Click on the images to view the enlarged versions There has been much strident rhetoric in recent years regarding a Bering Strait Crossing and Intercontinental Railway System. I first proposed such a system in 1995 for several reasons. At......
Improving Russia's Image and Russo-Ukrainian Relations
Russia's dynamic duo performing this past January 1, on Russian TV station Channel One Options and Opposing Views Russia's expatriate population is the subject of Alexei Bayer's recent article in The Moscow Times. He ends the article with a......
Scraps of Moscow
Highly politicized map of Bessarabia, from the 1930 edition of the Malaya Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia.[source: Wikipedia] It's hard to believe I have neglected this space for three solid months now. Things have been quite busy, and now we're about to enter another transitional period which might make it easier for me...
"Information Direct from the Manufacturer": An interview with the guys behind Privesc.Eu
First off, apologies for the long absence from this space - things have been genuinely busy at work, and I just haven't had the time. Fortunately, something I initiated back in early October, before I got busy, has finally born fruit. I think I first wrote about Privesc.Eu back in...
Abkhazian National Library - a thank-you, and an R.I.P.
When I visited Abkhazia this spring, I was assuming I would encounter a substantial degree of hostility toward me as an American. In fact, I encountered nothing of the sort. I also encountered substantially less Sovok than I had expected. One of the more pleasant experiences of my time in...
A Racist Restauranteur - Routine in Russia?
This was a pretty amazing article - appeared a few weeks ago on the afisha.ru website and generated some reaction from the Moscow dining public. So I translated it:White RussianZhenya Kuida, 18 Sept. 2009"Our patio has been open all summer - it's a pity that no one really wrote...
CIMG6491, originally uploaded by lyndonk2.On the occasion of Russian-language advocacy organization Russkiy Mir (not this one) opening an office in Tiraspol, I decided to translate this commentary from an Ekho Moskvy blog about the role of Russian in the post-Soviet space:Every day, there's some new story about the misfortunes of...
Sukhumi's Semi-abandoned Station
IMG_3014, originally uploaded by lyndonk2.The train station in Sukhumi is freighted with the historical memory of Stalinist architecture and the bitterness of failed post-Soviet conflict-resolution efforts. The railroad from Adler, in Russia, hasn't run through to Georgia since the war in the early 1990s. However, the possibility of restoring rail...
Timothy Post
The Social Media Marketing Blog: Have You Got an App for That?
Friday, January 22, 2010 Have You Got an App for That? It seems that app development is where it’s at in social. According to a recent eMarketer article, mobile apps for social networks – in addition to phones – are under consideration...
Facebook Developers | Preparing for the Launch of the Games and Applications Dashboards
We’re launching the Games Dashboard and the Applications Dashboard in the coming weeks to make it easier for users to interact with your applications and provide you with new communication channels accessible to all users from the home page. Later today, we’re updating the Dashboard API and opening up the...
Facebook Post Insights Go Live
This evening Facebook began rolling out the new post insights product that we wrote about earlier in the week. The service is extremely simple. It lets Page administrators find out how many impressions each story on their Page receives and what percentage of those impressions result in action...
Avatar: More than Meets the Eye
Image by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE via Flickr Like you, I had heard the hype surrounding the new movie, Avatar. Normally, I would have simply ignored the movie and perhaps gotten around to seeing it some months hence. However, when the film broke through the billion dollar mark in box office sales and the...
After the airing of the television program, Ukraine’s Got Talent, Kseniya Sobchak is no longer the only famous Kseniya out there in popular culture. The winner of the contest was sand animation artist, Kseniya Simonova, who drew: a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were...
Putin and Medvedev are Singing Comic Couplets
Who says that Russians don’t have a sense of humor? Watch the video (below) and then read the article Making a Little Fun of Russia’s Powerful (New York Times), which gives some more background information regarding the video skit. Thanks to Joera Mulders for first posting the video. When it aired last...
Russian Navy Blog
China gets the Varyag for peanuts while the Gorshkov remains a money pit
VPK quotes a Chinese blog that the ex-Soviet almost carrier Varyag is going to be commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy as a training carrier, giving the People's Liberation Army a People's Liberation Army Naval Airforce with fixed wing capability: VPK:According to the Chinese source blog.sina.com, the leadership of the...
The Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva has a couple of international exercises planned for the spring of 2010. The ship will sail for the Mediterranean to participate in PASSEXes with ships from Italy and France. The cruiser also plans to take part in bilateral naval exercises with...
Goddamn you, Stephen Colbert. Goddamn you to hell....
For finding this clip and featuring it on your show this week:...
This picture was taken from a Su-24...
Allegedly.USS Kitty Hawk, 17 October 2000, Sea of JapanWhat I'd like to know is why Russian film stock for their recon photos sucks so bad....
This is a little curious and slightly disturbing
While surfing through some photos of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov at the pier, I ran across these photographs:What is that in the upper right corner, behind the kingpost on that red ship moored nearby?Why it appears to be the former Golf class diesel powered ballistic missile submarine K-118, later...
Excellent photo essay on the Caspian Sea Monster
Livejournalist igor113 has an excellent series of photos of the weird and wonderful Caspian Sea Monster. There are photos of the flight deck (bridge? flight deck? I have no idea what to call it!), the crew quarters (the ekranoplan could stay at sea for five days), the galley, the anchor...
Windows to Russia!
Is Georgia is Being Tramatized by Saakashvili?
Saturday night during the news hour on Imedi TV channel, Made a broadcast that Russia had invaded Georgia after a “terror attack” on the president of South Ossetian republic, Eduard Kokoity. The news report started out and stated that Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili and his government had been evacuated. They did...
Russian Road Police Eats His Bribe!
A traffic police officer from the Chelyabinsk region, caught in the act of taking a bribe of two thousand rubles, ate the money right in front of the police. On March 2, 2010 a traffic police officer stopped a car driven by a resident of Kasli who broke the rules of...
Soon in America will start a battle is fought all summer long. I, my dad, my uncles, grandfather and my kids fought this battle. The battle of the "evil dandelion"... The Dandelion is a widely distributed perennial weed. The mature plant arises from a strong, deep taproot that exudes a milky...
Is Ukraine Seeing a Light at the End of the Tunnel?
It seems that one presidential election would not make that much difference. But when you had a leaders such as the last Ukraine president and Prime Minister you really have no where to go but up. Today several announcements have been made and it looks like Ukraine might see a little...
Russia: Grass Carp is a Delicacy!
The Carp!Pond near the village.Water being pumped to pond from river near by.Our - Village on the pond bank.Big pond on road to Village.Looks like a good place for Bass to me!!! I was drinking my cup of coffee and was thinking about the favorite Russian fish to eat. The Grass...
Russian from Russia: Do you Want to Come Home?
Russians who want to come home are being given that chance and 18,000 have returned so far since 2006! Many Russians left when the Soviet Union collapsed and now the Russian government has set in motion the groundwork to help those that wish to come home... (Video is excellent) So pass the...
Russia
Does Women’s Day Still Matter?
Who celebrates International Women’s Day anymore? 100 years since its inception, the venerable event could use a lift. While it remains an official national holiday in Russia, time and government cooptation have dulled its radical roots as it transformed into an apolitical celebration of femininity and spring time – a sort of...
Lip-synching to the Rule of Law
If you know your internet memes, you’ve probably already met Eduard Hill, the ‘Soviet Rick Astley’ whose somewhat sinister lip-synched song is being sent by scores of bemused American hipsters to their unwitting friends. Meanwhile, their counterparts in the Russian blogosphere are getting fired up by a much more literal car...
Patriarch & Lack of Doping to Blame for Russia’s Olympic Shame
Once the foreigners who dared to push Russia from the podium have been taken care of (via strategic bombers and lethal psychological warfare), heads will roll over the country’s worst Olympics in history, assured Medvedev yesterday. But whose? Well, sports minister Vitaly Mutko says it wasn’t his fault; it was the...
Even some Americans were offended when commentator Mike Milbury excoriated Russia for their ‘Eurotrash game’ against Canada. But what other way was there to describe the studied, ironic detachment of Ovechkin, or the arrogance and entitlement of that underachieving yet pampered sore-loser- Plushenko. Not even his self-awarded Platinum Medal (NO JOKE!)...
‘Khodorkovsky was the only one of the oligarchs who forgot that he was an oligarch, that is, a crook. He decided that because he’d stopped stealing from the company that he was a great businessman, a builder of value! The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should...
Putin Sells Lake Baikal Down the River
Russian people are used to humiliation and oppression, but they always draw the line at Lake Baikal. This is a lesson that PM Vladimir Putin should have considered carefully before giving his chum and Russia’s richest man Oleg Deripaska (pictured above) the green light to begin polluting the UNESCO-protected national treasure. When...
From Russia with Love
Congratulations on *The 8th of March!* Today is international Women's Day, a major deal - now there's an understatement - here in Russia and across the former USSR. Here are quick links to related stories and pictures posted here in recent years.Thought you might enjoy a quick visit to the...
Remembering Mom on her Birthday
While it is still February~ at least in some time zones ~ I wanted to start this Happy Birthday post in honor of my mother.Her birthday was February 16th and she would have been 80, if she were still on this earth. Here's a photo of the two of us...
Definitely extreme skiing: Being towed by a car along Moscow streets and highways....
February 23: Honoring Defenders of the Fatherland
Today is a big holiday across Russia. Once known as Red Army Day, it has evolved into a men's day of sorts.Nowadays it's appropriate to congratulate males of all ages, from aging veterans who have seen things they'd rather forget to little tykes who defend their toys from rivals. That...
You need to meet Elena Lalaevna, 88, our oldest sister who is basically confined to her little one-room apartment.I'm always in need of a Russian grandmother to call my own, so I elected her. Elena Lalaevna likes my chicken soup and I like the candy she foists upon me. When...
Life of Russo-American WWII Hero Celebrated
This just in from Russia Today: The life of US paratrooper Jumpin' Joe Beyrle is being celebrated with an exhibit in St Petersburg. He is thought to be the only veteran who fought for the US as well as Russian forces during the war. Oh, this is a fascinating story....
blackpurl's knitpickings
We embarked on this trip to Turkey because we found out that we needed to leave Russia and renew Tom's work visa. We were supposed to be able to renew it Russia two more times so when we found out that we had to leave it came as a...
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.Mother Teresa...
Tom found a hanger store!!It reminded us of a Saturday Night Live sketch from years ago about a Scotch Tape store. How could I resist preserving this memory!...
The wind was pretty strong today and Spencer had to hang on tight to Flat Shirley so she wouldn't blow away!the ceilings were very high...Not every stall had a stained glass window about it... this one caught my eye!Not sure if it was all conjured up by the White Witch...
hanging out at the Blue Mosque
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sipping apple tea from tiny glass cups!Tom ordered Lamb kabob at the cafe we went to!fresh pomegranate and orange juice mixed...mmmm, our new favorite juice!!...
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US pushing hard for Israeli peace concessions
The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement expansion....
Sarkozy's Party Humbled By Leftists In French Vote
Head of the French Socialist party, Martine Aubry, gestures while speaking to the media, at the party's headquarters in Paris Sunday, March 14, 2010. French voters delivered a stinging defeat to P......
New Life In A Johannesburg Suburb
Johannesburg ’s Central Business District, was celebrated for three key cultural institutions the Civic Theater, the Alexander Theater and the University of the Witwatersrand which......
March Madness Brackets Announced
Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse earned top billing and the No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament Sunday, with the Jayhawks named the top seed overall for the 2010 version of March Madness.With all t......
Despite Residency Laws, Hempstead Workers Live Elsewhere
LAURA RIVERA Despite a local law in Hempstead Village that requires its employees to live there, a third of its civilian workforce lives outside the village - the community saddled with the highest u......
Mangano Speech To Weigh Property Tax, Jobs
sid.cassese@newsday.com In his first State of the County address, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano will touch on a host of themes ranging from fixing the county's broken property tax assessment......
RussianMarketer
Yandex Release Russian Twitter Statistics
Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia was quick to adopt Twitter. Last September they started publishing a list of the most popular Twitterati and including the service on their blog section, which shows statistics for many social platforms. Now they have released a short PDF report which lists some...
RusTechDel Brings U.S. Tech Delegation to Russia
The U.S. State Department organised a delegation of IT luminaries to visit Russia and discuss the state of the web industry. Aside from U.S. officials the group included executives from U.S. tech firms such as Twitter, Ebay and Cisco Systems. Ashton Kutcher, a regular Twitter user with over 4.5m followers...
TNS Web Index Report On VKontakte and Odnoklassniki
TNS have released the December 2009 report on the leading sites in Runet. Although the report is in Russian, the statistics are easy enough to understand. As a nod to Alex Howard (@digiphile) who I met online at the #rustechdel, here are the findings on Russia’s leading social networks, VKontakte.ru...
Ebay To Open Service In Russia
Ebay, the e-commerce platform that connects buyers and sellers have announced that they will open in Russia by the end of March. Users will be able to access the site in Russian and pay for fixed-price items using PayPal, eBay’s online payments system. Chief Executive John Donahoe said Russia’s e-commerce...
Russian Internet Advertising Market At 19 Billion Roubles
Rossiiskaya Gazata reports that Internet advertising is continuing to take an ever larger share of the overall advertising market in Russia. Despite the economic downturn that has affected the overall spend. Internet advertising in Russia grew by 6 percent in 2009, up to 19 billion roubles (approx. $630.6m USD), while...
Mail.ru Dumps Google For Own Search Platform
After negotiations last year, Google won the contract away from Yandex to provide Mail.ru with contextual and organic search results. However, it’s become clear that instead of a transition from Yandex to Google, Mail.ru seems to have decided to go it alone and use results from their own in-house search...
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Hungarian Vizsla wins at Crufts
A Hungarian Vizsla named Yogi wins Best In Show at Crufts, at the end of the four-day show in Birmingham....
Murray cruises past fitful Seppi
Andy Murray comes through the second round of the BNP Paribas Open with a comfortable 6-4 6-4 win over Italy's Andreas Seppi in Indian Wells...
Baltacha halted in Indian Wells
Britain's Elena Baltacha loses to Australian Alicia Molik in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in California....
Obama aide stokes US-Israel row
A top Obama adviser criticises Israel over settlement homes in East Jerusalem, thwarting Israeli hopes of ending the row....
Meadows settles for Doha silver
Jenny Meadows wins 800m silver and the men's 4x400m team take bronze making it four British medals at the World Indoor Championships....
GB team suffer poor opening day
Great Britain team suffer a disappointing opening day at the Winter Paralympics as the curlers lose and skiing is postponed....
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US and Russia claim they are on brink of nuclear deal
More than three months late, Obama and Medvedev dive for the finish line in a bid to maintain momentum on disarmamentApologies if you have read this somewhere before many times, but Washington and Moscow are once again saying they are really, really close to a new START nuclear arms control...
My parents Jeffery and Miquette Roberts, who have both died aged 66, within 10 days of each other, shared passions for the arts and languages, and had broad-ranging, inquiring minds. In April 2009, Jeffery was diagnosed with cancer. He faced this with amazing fortitude, and the unending support of Miquette,...
Russian invasion scare sweeps Georgia after TV hoax
Imedi TV broadcaster provokes panic with report claiming Russian attack in progressSwitching on their TV sets at 8pm on Saturday, Georgians were greeted with incredible news – Russia had invaded. The pro-government Imedi TV station reported that Russian tanks were once more trundling into Georgia. Not only that, but the...
David Cameron's rightwing 'allies' march in Riga to commemorate the SS
Row over SS veterans' parade in Latvia puts the spotlight on Tory links to eastern Europe's far right Nazi sympathisersThe number three bus in Riga winds from the mouth of the river Daugava, past the lovely old centre of the city to the miles of Lego-brick, Soviet-era blocks in Plavnieki.At...
Red Road deaths: a tragedy of asylum, mental health and Russian intrigue
Secret service plots and paranoia may have coloured the case of Serge Serykh's family, but a housing charity has blamed the tragedy on an asylum policy that 'treated them like cattle'It was shortly after 10am on Sunday that Graham Galbraith and Carol Craig were woken by police, who told them...
Boris Berezovsky wins libel case over Litvinenko murder
Russian oligarch awarded damages over claims he arranged polonium poisoning of friend and former spyThe exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was today awarded libel damages of £150,000 over "savage" allegations he was behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned Russian dissident who was his close friend.In a chaotic high...
The Beet Goes On
I've moved up in the world to my own domain at www.thebeetgoeson.net.Please follow me there and note the new address.Love,The Expatresse...
Thanks to Author Julia for suggesting the title of today's blog entry. I swear, Moscow was handing out some heavy, angry energy on my last few days there. I sliced the back of my heel on a friend's stairs. I slipped on some ice and wrenched my knee. I stepped...
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I have a statistics counting site that tells me where my readers come from. It has lead me to some interesting places.An entry on my Bratislava blog became the subject of discussion on some political forum when they got to talking about how The Spouse and I were voting for...
I Dunno If You're Gonna Want to Read This
It's just more of me whining about My Bad Day.You might want to navigate away from this page now.Okay. But don't say I didn't warn you.Moving is just stressful no matter how many times you do it. I will make a little plug for my current moving company, Crown, as...
Here's a tip for traveling with pets to the EU.You need a form. EU 998.The Veterinary Certificate for Domestic Dogs, Cats, and Ferrets Entering the European Community for Non-Commercial Movements.If you google it, you will find lots of nice websites offering to sell it to you for $7.50 a copy.Or...
RIA Novosti
United Russia party leading in Russian regional elections
The ruling United Russia party is widely leading in Sunday's Russian regional elections according to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission....
Georgian TV fake invasion report "part of information war on Russia"
Saturday's fake report by a Georgian TV channel on an alleged Russian invasion and on killing the South Caucasus state's president was part of an information war waged by Georgian authorities, Russia's envoy to NATO said Sunday...
Georgian TV fake invasion report
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Georgian TV fake invasion report "part of information war against Russia"
Saturday's fake report by a Georgian TV channel on an alleged Russian invasion and on killing the South Caucasus state's president was part of an information war waged by Georgian authorities, Russia's envoy to NATO said Sunday...
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours...
Russia chief doctor wants to prohibit alcohol sales after 9 p.m.
Sales of all alcoholic beverages, including beer, should be prohibited in Russia between 9:00 p.m. and until morning, Russia's chief sanitary doctor said....