4 Jun 2010
The reform of Russia’s Interior Ministry (MVD) produced some news this week in the form of an amusing interview with Rashid Nurgaliev, the ministry’s chief. Nurgaliev called the MVD “the very poorest of current law enforcement agencies” and voiced concerns that many officers are “very deeply sick,” explaining that traffic patrols last 50% longer in [...]
30 May 2010
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin met with the participants and organizers of charity event for sick children. The event included various famous members of the Russian artist and intellectual community. The most animated guest at the table was Yuri Shevchuk, lead singer of the rock band DDT and well-known liberal activist. Just a few months ago, Shevchuk [...]
26 Feb 2010
I offer the following post not as an analysis of insider Washington politics, but just to bring light to a particularly nasty story that hasn’t gotten much coverage in the English-language media (though the Moscow Times had a blurb about it here.) Anyone who has lived in or even visited Russia has likely shivered under [...]
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