Archive for February, 2007
We’re Not Nazis, We’re Punk-Anarchists
By Sean at 27 February, 2007, 5:23 pm
“We’re punks!” declare immigrant teens mostly from the CIS who hang out at Petah Tikva’s Gan Yehonatan club in Israel. They are also skinheads. But skins come a various types. You have anti-racist skins, Nazi skins (or boneheads as anti-racists call them), and apparently a new type, one that fits well in [...]
Read More >>The "2008 Problem" and Russian Capitalism
By Sean at 25 February, 2007, 11:04 pm
Steven Lee Myers article, “Post-Putin” in the International Herald Tribune and in the New York Times Sunday Magazine is sparking some commentary among bloggers.
Robert Amsterdam has alerted readers to a rather amusing section where Myers speaks of Aleksandr Donskoi, the young mayor Arkhangelsk who declared his candidacy for president. Since his [...]
Read More >>Attack on Civil Rights?
By Sean at 23 February, 2007, 7:38 pm
Dmitri Minaev, who runs the Russia history blog De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis, submitted the following article about the strange incident involving a human rights group called Froda and their run in with the FSB in Novorossiysk. The article is a compilation to two posts Minaev did on the story. I’ve demarcated the [...]
Read More >>Transcript of Vyacheslav Postavnin’s Briefing with Amcham
By Sean at 20 February, 2007, 6:36 pm
As I’ve already indicated, the adoption and enforcement of the January 15 migration law has caused confusion among administrators, police, officials, and foreigners alike. Nothing points to this confusion more than the following transcript of Vyacheslav Postavnin’s briefing with the American Chamber of Commerce on February 8. I provide the transcript here as [...]
Read More >>Registration, Again
By Sean at 16 February, 2007, 5:58 pm
A reader sent me this comment about foreign registration in Russia:
I realize that private registrations are the cheapest way to be in R BUT a traveler’s time is also money, especially when you are on a tight schedule. For between 125$ and 200$, you can get legal, convenient registration in less [...]
A Media Critique on the Recent Coverage of Russia
By Sean at 12 February, 2007, 3:13 pm
By Michael Averko
Saturday’s Feb. 10, BBC telecast to the US portrayed an “aggressive” Russian President Vladimir Putin “lashing out” at the US during a weekend gathering in Munich. The White House was then quoted as being “disappointed” with Putin’s comments. This BBC segment had an excerpt of an interview it conducted [...]
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