Archive for July 3rd, 2007
Financial Times on Kazakhstan
By Sean at 3 July, 2007, 9:22 pm
If you want to know anything about the political economy of CIS countries, there is no better place to turn than the Financial Times. Always erudite, FT’s special reports provide a broad evaluation of the region’s economy, politics, culture, and society often without the usual ideological claptrap about the incompatibility between capitalism and authoritarianism. [...]
Read More >>CIS Most Dangerous for Journalists (If you leave out war zones)
By Sean at 3 July, 2007, 8:09 pm
Reports about how the CIS is dangerous for journalists are so common that their worthy efforts are starting to sound like a bad pop song. Freedom House is the newest NGO/think tank to give its evaluation of media freedom. To no one’s surprise its report, Muzzling the Media: The Return of Censorship in [...]
Read More >>Stiff Measures
By Sean at 3 July, 2007, 1:46 pm
I found this delightful picture at Krill Pankratov’s NezNotes, who found it via Mad Max’s Journal. For non-Russian speakers, the sign reads: “Dear owners of local gardens: Those who throw trash will be fucked in the ass. The Brigade of Forest Homosexuals.”
Tags: Nonsense|Russia|environmentalism
