Archive for July, 2005
Mosnews.com
By Sean at 29 July, 2005, 8:23 pm
I’ve made some changes to the blog over the last few days. Most of them have been cosmetic. I’ve changed the color of the fonts, etc. However, there is one change I feel I need to explain. And that is the news feeder you see on the right. The news feeder culls stories from Mosnews.com, [...]
Read More >>Nashi Update
By Sean at 22 July, 2005, 9:55 pm
Three news items appeared this week that concern Russian nationalism: the Nashi camp in Tver, the Russian government’s earmarking of 500 million rubles for “patriotic education” and the group of nationalists trying to get the Moscow courts to ban Jewish organizations. These three incidents all point to what I call in very mild terms [...]
Read More >>Natsbol Update
By Sean at 11 July, 2005, 4:14 pm
Today’s Moscow Times has an article on the Trial of “Decembrists”, the trial of 39 National Bolshevik members for seizing a Presidential office last December. The moniker “Decembrists” shouldn’t slip notice. The Decembrists were nobles and about 3000 soldiers who tried to prevent Nicholas I from being crowned Tsar after the death of Alexander I. [...]
Read More >>Bilingua Burns!
By Sean at 10 July, 2005, 6:42 am
It is impossible to spend any length of time in Russia and not have something totally fucked up happen to you. The place is just too damn unpredictable. It lacks that well-ordered atmosphere that you immediately sense after stepping off a plane in Western Europe. No, Russia is wholly something else. If you’re not constantly [...]
Read More >>Banning the Natsbols
By Sean at 6 July, 2005, 2:03 pm
“This is a mass organization which is not interested in the Kremlin. The arm of the court is trying to liquidate us, but we will not stand for it and will go to the European Court on Human Rights . . . If you ban us we will flee underground and from this it will [...]
Read More >>Super Antonio
By Sean at 3 July, 2005, 9:03 pm
A momentary pause from Russia to give notice to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was inaugurated this past week. From pictures of the inauguration, it seems that the crowd well represented LA both by ethnicity and by class. This was my hope despite the code orange alerts from now ex-mayor Jim Hahn’s [...]
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