Archive for October, 2007
MI6 Bitch
By Sean at 29 October, 2007, 4:39 pm
So there you have it. Sounds like Andrei Lugovoi was right after all. The London Daily Mail revealed today that Alexandr Litvinenko was indeed a paid MI6 agent. Says the Mail:
Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000 a month from the British security services at the time he was [...]
Read More >>Dictatorship of the ‘Stache
By Sean at 27 October, 2007, 5:47 pm
Is there a link between dictators’ brutality and facial hair? This is the question Rich Cohen explores in his article “Becoming Adolf” in this month’s Vanity Fair. And come to find out, the “Hitler mustache” as we now know and love it was not always the property of the world’s most renowned murderer. Nor was [...]
Read More >>Managerial Chaos?
By Sean at 24 October, 2007, 6:18 pm
I was going through Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855-1881 the other day looking for information on Alexander II’s judicial reforms of 1864. I was particularly interested in the creation of jury trials in local courts. The book is a wonderful collection of articles in its own right. Sadly, its one of the few that [...]
Read More >>Spy vs. Spy
By Sean at 23 October, 2007, 2:20 pm
If you want to understand what is happening among the political elite in Russia and why Putin making the moves he’s making, read Mark Ames’ “The Kremlin’s Clan Warfare: The Putin Era Ends“. Here is an excerpt:
What is happening?
I’ll repeat: It’s the End of the Putin Era as we know it. The struggle [...]
Top 10 Commentators on SRB
By Sean at 22 October, 2007, 11:20 pm
I haven’t had the time to write anything substantial about Russia thanks to my chapter deadline (which is tomorrow). In a moment of boredom, I decided to add the “Top Commentators” widget to the site. The widget displays the top ten commentators since I started the site in October 2004.
And the winner [...]
The Putin Proposal?
By Sean at 20 October, 2007, 4:49 pm
Last week, the New York Times wrote:
Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, proposed a new way to help resolve the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program during an extraordinary meeting with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the country’s chief nuclear negotiator on Wednesday.
The negotiator, Ali Larijani, told reporters that Mr. Putin, who was granted an [...]
