Archive for May, 2009
Lenin’s Suit
By Sean at 26 May, 2009, 8:52 am
“Lenin” and “Death”
these words are enemies.
“Lenin” and “Life”
are comrades . . .
Lenin
lived.
Lenin
lives.
Lenin
will live.
–Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
Vladimir Ilich Lenin turned 139 last month making him the oldest living person on Earth. However, Lenin does not live like his eulogizers had imagined. When some mourners proclaimed that “Lenin has ceased to be an individual-Lenin belongs to the millions,” [...]
Memorial’s “Winchesters” Returned
By Sean at 7 May, 2009, 1:38 pm
It appears that some of Medvedev’s liberal posturing is producing concrete results. Or at least someone is getting the signals. Finally, fi-nal-ly Memorial has gotten its materials back from the St. Petersburg prosecutor. Twelve computer hard disks, or “Winchesters” as one report calls them, about 1000 business cards belonging to A. D. Margolis (the general [...]
Read More >>Swine Flu Lands in Moscow
By Sean at 1 May, 2009, 4:42 pm
Hypochondriacs beware! Swine flu has officially landed in Moscow. According to Novyi region, two women have been hospitalized in the capital. “Both women are citizens of Russia. One of them arrived in Russia from New York yesterday, the second today. They had fevers and were admitted to the hospital by our insistence,” Gennadii Onishchenko told [...]
Read More >>
