Archive for October, 2008
Where’s Vladimir?
By Sean at 30 October, 2008, 3:58 pm
The Putin cult continues. Even though he’s no longer President, he’s still the man. Russians are still curious about Putin’s many movements, appearances, and events reports the Moscow Times. Where will he be today? What did the vozhd say on his working trip to Kazakhstan? Just who are those lucky personages graced with his exalted [...]
Read More >>“It was the best school for managers!”
By Sean at 29 October, 2008, 5:36 pm
The Russian media is abuzz with reports on the 90th Anniversary of the Komsomol. Local celebrations, museum exhibits, and conferences are planned all over the country to commemorate the youth organization. In Pskov, the local office of the Committee for Youth Policy and Sport has organized festival called “My Komsomol Youth.” Arkhangelsk has a series [...]
Read More >>The Komsomol at 90
By Sean at 27 October, 2008, 8:41 am
Ninety years ago this week, 194 delegates from youth groups from all over revolutionary Russia met to consolidate themselves into an all-Russian youth organization. Of the 194 delegates, 176 had voting rights, (the rest had the right to speak but not vote). The voting delegates claimed to represent 120 different youth groups with a total [...]
Read More >>Georgia’s World Bankroll
By Sean at 24 October, 2008, 12:30 pm
The BBC aren’t the only ones still sorting out South Ossetia. Mark Ames dismantles the NY Times coverage in “The Cold War that Wasn’t“. Like most American media, the Times was fully on board with the Russia = bad, Georgia = good crusade. That is until facts made it too difficult to blindly sustain that [...]
Read More >>Sorting Out South Ossetia
By Sean at 23 October, 2008, 9:43 am
What happened in South Ossetia? The war may be over but questions linger. Who started the war? Was there ethnic cleansing of Georgians? What role did South Ossetian militas play in the conflict. BBC has made available the first part of Tim Whewell audio documentary on South Ossetia where he uncover more pieces of the [...]
Read More >>Moskalenko’s Mercury Mirage
By Sean at 23 October, 2008, 8:17 am
When I blogged on the “poisoning” of Karinna Moskalenko last week, I asked, “Was this a murder attempt, a warning, or just paranoia?” Well now we definitively know: It was paranoia. The French newspaper La Figaro reports that an investigation into the mercury that made Moskalenko ill was not planted there by a nefarious Putinite [...]
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