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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn RIP

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, brilliant Russian author and political critic, died a few hours ago of heart failure, at his Moscow home at the age of 89. In 1970, Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Peace Prize...

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Yukos Contract Killings

Once in the faraway land of Russia in the crazy days of the late 1990s, there lived a very, very drunk man. And his name was Boris Yeltsin.  Despite President Yeltsin being a washed-up buffoon for most...

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Raskolnikov

“All people seem to be divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary.’ The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because … they are ordinary. Whereas...

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Cat and Mouse

Random and appropriate Russian proverb for the morning of 18 August 2008: Без котa мышaм раздoлье. Translation: Without a cat, mice have no restrictions.

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Putin On “George’s Georgian War” and US Elections

Yesterday, CNN interviewed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who accused the US of encouraging aggressive Georgian behaviour which provoked the recent South Ossetia conflict. Putin further...

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Karma Police

  Karma Police, Arrest this man. He talks in maths.  He buzzes like a fridge, he’s like a detuned radio.   Karma Police, Arrest this girl.  Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill. And we have crashed...

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С международным женским днём!

(“Happy International Women’s Day!” ) I was in Russia long enough to know that 8 March is no ordinary day. So what kind of ‘mother of Pushkin’ would I be if I didn’t wish you a happy international...

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