http://seansrussiablog.org Russia Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:09:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en увеличить фото ... On June 22 residents of Voronezh found their local billboards featuring an ominous, but familiar face: Comrade Stalin  "Victory will be ours!" reads a slogan in large white letters below a large picture of the vozhd.  The question, curious residents asked, was why Comrade Stalin's visage was once ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/25/stalin-not-welcome-in-voronezh/ It's back to court for Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov.  Today, the Russian Supreme Court overturned their acquittal in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case.  Reports the NY Times: The court said the four men, who were accused of assisting the killer of Ms. Politkovskaya, should be ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/25/politkovskaya-defendents-go-back-to-court/ There is nothing more hilarious when people give wondrous powers to the United States.  It's no surprise that Russia Today would feast on a the idea that the "Green Revolution" is a US orchestrated plot.  Russia already convinced itself that every colored revolution was cooked up in Langley. And this makes ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/24/russia-today-iran-is-all-a-cia-plot/ Mikhail Gorbachev has had many roles in his seventy-eight years.  He's been a Party aktiv, a First Party Kraikom Secretary, Politburo member, General Secretary of the Communist Party, Louis Vuitton model, and global philanthropist.  Gorbachev, of course, is best known for concocting perestroika and glasnost, two reforms which aided the ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/22/the-ballads-of-mikhail-gorbachev/ Robert Fisk, who has been reporting daily from the Tehran, provides Ahmadinejad's contribution to the theory of colored revolution: In the aftermath of the Ahmadinejad "success" at the polls, his supporters were handing out leaflets condemning the secular revolutions of Eastern Europe, and their content says much about the anxieties of ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/21/ahmadinejad-theorizes-colored-revolution/ As hundreds of thousands protesters fill the streets of Tehran and other provincial centers,  one can't help think that we've seen this all before.  So much about the Iranian protests look like the "colored revolutions" in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, (the failed attempts in) Moldova and Belarus. In fact, "colored revolution" ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/06/19/irans-green-revolution-in-russia/ "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 ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/05/26/lenins-suit/ 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 ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/05/07/memorials-winchesters-returned/ 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 ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/05/01/swine-flu-lands-in-moscow/ [caption id="attachment_1181" align="alignleft" width="254" caption="Aleksandr Belov happily pointing at Kafe 88. In Nazi slang, 88 stands for "Heil Hitler.""][/caption] Anti-racist activists finally have a reason to mildly celebrate.  Today, Russian xenophobe Aleksandr Belov was sentenced to six months in a penal colony for violating Article 282 of the Russian Criminal ... http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/04/30/anti-immigrant-leader-belov-sentenced/