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 [...]
1 Aug 2010
Last Friday, on July 30th, Ella Pamfilova, the head of the president’s advisory council on human rights and civil society, abruptly resigned from her post, without an official explanation or specifying what it is she will do next. This has naturally encouraged wild speculation about why she would suddenly leave the council, which is recognized [...]
29 Apr 2010
Yesterday in Foreign Policy, Julia Ioffe published the most in-depth English-language article to-date on the hidden-camera scandals in Russia. She interviews Solidarnost’s Ilya Yashin, Nashi’s Robert Schlegel, and the center of the fiasco himself: Viktor Shenderovich. It is a weird article. Yashin compares infidelity and mattress-humping to defecation; Shenderovich says that his wife “reacted completely [...]
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