Archive for July, 2007
"Ivan’s" Nashi
By Sean at 31 July, 2007, 7:36 pm
They have been called “Putin’s Generation” and “neo-Komsomol.” They have served as evidence of a rising Russian fascism. But little reporting about Nashi in English goes beyond what its Commissars give reporters. The following interview gives a different picture. Kommersant Vlast reporter Anna Kachurskaya spoke to “Ivan” (not his real name) [...]
Read More >>Tensions Linger, Ghosts Reappear
By Sean at 30 July, 2007, 4:20 pm
Theories a-go-go
Diplomatic wrangling between Russian and Britain continues as no resolution over the Andrei Lugovoi extradition seems in sight. Writing in the Russian weekly Ekspert, Andrei Gromov argues that the whole mess lies with the British, who has gone “beyond the framework of legal and diplomatic logic.” Gromov sees British demands as nothing less [...]
Oppositionist Gets a Trip to the Mental Ward
By Sean at 29 July, 2007, 10:05 pm
Some habits die hard. The practice of forcing Soviet dissidents into psychiatric hospitals seems to continue in Putin’s Russia. Marina Litvinovich of Garry Kasparov’s United Civil Front told the Associated Press that police have forced Larisa Arap in to psychiatric clinic.
Arap, 48, a member of Kasparov’s group in the northern port city of [...]
Read More >>Ivan Made Me Do It
By Sean at 28 July, 2007, 3:01 am
NASA has been hit with another scandal. Intrigued, I watched the CNN coverage today only to repeatedly roll my eyes at all the references to the “Right Stuff”. God who writes this copy? Kind of makes me sorry for Wolf Blizer who has to read that swill. Well maybe not that [...]
Read More >>Don’t Call it a Comeback
By Sean at 26 July, 2007, 10:02 pm
Mikhail Gorbachev has come a long way since he wrote in a high school essay, “Stalin is our glorious fighter, Stalin is the iron of our youth (“Stalin – nasha slava boevaia, Stalin – nashei iunosti polet)” But his love for Stalin faded with Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech.” Also gone are the days when [...]
Read More >>More on the Attack in Angarsk
By Sean at 24 July, 2007, 6:27 pm
New information has come out about the attack on a camp of antifa environmental activists on Saturday. The violent raid sent eight to the hospital, one of which, Ilya Borodayenko, 26, died of head injuries. Police have since issued eight arrest warrants and have detained 20 suspects. All of the perpetrators are [...]
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