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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...
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What LDS/mormon leaders will never tell you
While on Earth, Jesus Christ taught everyone who listened to Him the Golden Rule "do unto others what you would like other would do to you", so I understand that apologizing is included in this basic principle, as well as the principle of forgiveness. Something that you will never hear...
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Two of my favorite songs: Randy Travis
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The Bahá'í community of Mechelen holds every other week a prayer evening on mondays. I am always counting down for these monday evenings because of the very sweet spirit that is felt when we are together. Bahá'í prayers are the most beautiful I ever heard/read, and when I read them...
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Moscow on the line
As the snow thaws, the stray dogs are beginning to re-appear. I was getting to know the pack near where I live (and the one on the way to work) last year - only by sight I mean; they are neither friendly or unfriendly, but would certainly attack if threatened....
I am aware that several stereotypical aspects of Russian behaviour have been trying to ‘bite me’ recently. Some of these have just been some pretty boorish manners (of the speaking on mobile phones at the opera variety). Others are more irritating, including the on-going difficulties with my landlord’s agent who...
and now the sad (snow) reality
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And - to get in as many snow pictures as possible before it all goes - witness the brilliant opportunity to go ice-skating around the park paths in Gorky Park (although the queues for tickets were inordinately long and the paths themselves as crowded as Oxford Circus tube station). And...
Which gives me a chance to show one of the great ice sculptures they have every year next to the Space Museum and VdnKH (....in December, sorry didn't get around to it at the time..)...
They do have some snow sculptures there (well, they did, I haven't mentioned the major thaw we are having.....)...