Laughing at Russia’s Eurovision Shooting Spirit
This article was originally published on Global Voices here. In 1945, following a visit by the USSR’s Dynamo soccer team, George Orwell wrote that sports are “war minus the shooting.” He also said that “serious” sports have “nothing to do with fair play.” Earlier today, May 21, 2013, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov seemed to echo this …
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