Comments on: Deconstructing Nashi http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/ Russia Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Misha http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-56029 Misha Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:17:12 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-56029 For the purpose of provding a better balance, much more is needed For the purpose of provding a better balance, much more is needed

]]> By: Will Warner http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-56021 Will Warner Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:48:03 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-56021 Ah, thank you! Ah, thank you!

]]> By: Misha http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-56020 Misha Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:42:07 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-56020 Russia (at least some elements in it) are turning the tables http://in.news.yahoo.com/reuters_ids_new/20080428/r_t_rtrs_wl/twl-russia-turns-tables-on-west-with-rig-2186892_1.html It'd be more productive to have an all around think tank, which deals with other issues besides human rights. Russia (at least some elements in it) are turning the tables

http://in.news.yahoo.com/reuters_ids_new/20080428/r_t_rtrs_wl/twl-russia-turns-tables-on-west-with-rig-2186892_1.html

It’d be more productive to have an all around think tank, which deals with other issues besides human rights.

]]> By: Sean http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-56011 Sean Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:59:39 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-56011 Thanks Will. The cabbage soup joke is a reference to a quip Putin made in his last press conference. He said: “Let them teach their own wives how to cook shchi (cabbage soup!” It was made in regard to Western election monitors and Western countries concern about Russian "democracy." Basically it means that they should mind their own business. Thanks Will. The cabbage soup joke is a reference to a quip Putin made in his last press conference. He said:

“Let them teach their own wives how to cook shchi (cabbage soup!”

It was made in regard to Western election monitors and Western countries concern about Russian “democracy.” Basically it means that they should mind their own business.

]]> By: Will Warner http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-56007 Will Warner Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:42:30 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-56007 I read your article in the eXile and loved it! However, I have a stupid question for you: What's the joke in giving the American embassy a cabbage soup cookbook? They're incompetent and harmful, and should turn to cooking instead of politics and diplomacy? They're ignorant of even the most basic elements of Russia, such as the cabbage? Their American ways are so misguided that embracing even Russia's most dubious cultural elements, such as cabbage, would be an improvement? Their dirty tricks are all as unimaginative, repetitive, and nauseating as 1000 ways to cook cabbage soup? Or is there something more subtle and specific here, a reference to a story I haven't heard perhaps? I read your article in the eXile and loved it! However, I have a stupid question for you: What’s the joke in giving the American embassy a cabbage soup cookbook? They’re incompetent and harmful, and should turn to cooking instead of politics and diplomacy? They’re ignorant of even the most basic elements of Russia, such as the cabbage? Their American ways are so misguided that embracing even Russia’s most dubious cultural elements, such as cabbage, would be an improvement? Their dirty tricks are all as unimaginative, repetitive, and nauseating as 1000 ways to cook cabbage soup? Or is there something more subtle and specific here, a reference to a story I haven’t heard perhaps?

]]> By: Chrisius Maximus http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-55903 Chrisius Maximus Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:46:57 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-55903 Well I actually did meet Sean, who has awesome facial hair. You go! Sean, I gave you-know-who Roy Medvedev's third book on Putin, plus Zinoviev's funny novel Katastroika, and Sergei Kara-Murza's Sovetskaya Tsivilizatsiya V. II. You know, books written by the actual Russian opposition. :) Well I actually did meet Sean, who has awesome facial hair. You go!

Sean, I gave you-know-who Roy Medvedev’s third book on Putin, plus Zinoviev’s funny novel Katastroika, and Sergei Kara-Murza’s Sovetskaya Tsivilizatsiya V. II. You know, books written by the actual Russian opposition. :)

]]> By: Sean http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-55891 Sean Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:26:01 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-55891 <i>IMHO Eurasianism has too many associations with the school of thought called, well, Eurasianism.</i> There is that rather small problem isn't there? :) Too bad you're out of time, but I totally understand. I live like 5 minutes from WeHo. IMHO Eurasianism has too many associations with the school of thought called, well, Eurasianism.

There is that rather small problem isn’t there? :)

Too bad you’re out of time, but I totally understand. I live like 5 minutes from WeHo.

]]> By: Chrisius Maximus http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-55886 Chrisius Maximus Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:58:23 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-55886 IMHO Eurasianism has too many associations with the school of thought called, well, Eurasianism. :) I'm in SoCal until Tuesday. I went down to San Diego fr a few days and came back up to the IE. My mom flew in to see me from the East Coast, so I don't think I'm going to make it to LA, except for a brief trip tomorrow to see a friend in West Hollywood. Bummer. :( IMHO Eurasianism has too many associations with the school of thought called, well, Eurasianism. :)

I’m in SoCal until Tuesday. I went down to San Diego fr a few days and came back up to the IE. My mom flew in to see me from the East Coast, so I don’t think I’m going to make it to LA, except for a brief trip tomorrow to see a friend in West Hollywood. Bummer. :(

]]> By: Sean http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-55885 Sean Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:49:30 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-55885 I'm trying to come up with an equivalent of Orientialism. I think James used "Eurasianism" a few weeks ago. Are you back in Russia? I’m trying to come up with an equivalent of Orientialism. I think James used “Eurasianism” a few weeks ago.

Are you back in Russia?

]]> By: Chrisius Maximus http://seansrussiablog.org/2008/04/21/deconstructing-nashi/comment-page-1/#comment-55881 Chrisius Maximus Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:40:17 +0000 http://seansrussiablog.org/?p=601#comment-55881 I live! "They are happy to let Nashi commissars give the party line, except they take it and put it in some kind of “Eurasianist” (yes I like that word) framework i.e. Russia is always on the verge of the totalitarian moment." What do you mean by "Eurasionist" in this context? I live!

“They are happy to let Nashi commissars give the party line, except they take it and put it in some kind of “Eurasianist” (yes I like that word) framework i.e. Russia is always on the verge of the totalitarian moment.”

What do you mean by “Eurasionist” in this context?

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