Who Is the Face of the Russian Opposition?
12 Oct 2010
A Response to Julia Ioffe’s “Happy Birthday, You’re Fired”
29 Sep 2010
Yesterday in Foreign Policy, the latest article by Julia Ioffe appeared on the subject of Yuri Luzhkov’s ouster. The piece, “Happy Birthday, You’re Fired,” makes for a good read, but I disagree with much of its content, and so I offer the following response. Ms. Ioffe’s central thesis is that firing Luzhkov does nothing to [...]
Medvedev Fires Luzhkov, AGT Got it Wrong
28 Sep 2010
President Medvedev apparently informed Viacheslav Volodin, a top United Russia party official, at least a week ago that he intended to rid Moscow of Yuri Luzhkov. Volodin told Gazeta.ru, “The President’s decision wasn’t discussed. It was fulfilled.” At 8AM this morning, it was indeed. (See Presidential order here.) I certainly called this one wrong. On [...]
Leningrad’s ‘Khimki Forest’ Song
27 Sep 2010
‘History of USSR’ Tetris Music Explained: AGT Interviews Donald Newholm of “Pig With The Face Of A Boy”
19 Sep 2010
About two months ago, on July 12, 2010, the “world’s best neo-post-post-music hall anti-folk band,” otherwise known as Pig With The Face Of A Boy (see their Wikipedia page here), published on YouTube the music video to one of its latest songs, “A Complete History of the Soviet Union As Told By A Humble Worker, [...]
Everything for the People! “Nashi” vs. Oleg Mitvol’
11 Sep 2010
For those who aren’t already following it, I direct your attention to the recent and ongoing feud between the youth group “Nashi” and Moscow Northern District Prefect Oleg Mitvol’. Now, Mitvol’ and “Nashi” have a little history that’s worth noting at the outset: exactly a year ago in September 2009, he came to their aid [...]
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