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We All Live on Savushkina Street Now.
“A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Government, Politics, Strategy, Terrorism, Trade
Tagged economy, Education, government, opinion, Politics, Russia, Technology
331 Comments
Olympian or Politician? Make Up Your Mind.
The latest Olympian to shoot off his cakehole to the world and bray his catastrophic ignorance is Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury. He tweeted earlier, although he has since taken it down, his extreme disapproval that ‘doper’ Yelana Isinbayeva had been … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics, Russia
Tagged Education, government, opinion, Politics, role models, Russia, swimming
1,869 Comments
How Much Of a Nobody Do You Have To Be, To Be Too Much Of a Nobody To Testify Before a Congressional Committee?
Liz Wahl is a proud American. So proud, in fact, that she will hear nothing against the USA, even if it’s true. My country right or wrong, baby. For those who do not know Liz Wahl, she was the news … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Europe, Government, Investment, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, Education, espionage, government, opinion, Politics, role models, Russia, War
1,321 Comments
Who’s That Trip-Trapping on my Bridge – the Fable of Putin’s Troll Army
I was thinking, a few days ago, that I might do a post on the bellyaching and caterwauling from the Russophobes about Moscow’s supposed army of “paid trolls”, who are reimbursed by the Russian government for clogging western comment threads … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Europe, Government, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged blogger, Education, government, opinion, Politics, Russia, Ukraine
309 Comments
The Iron Lady and the Young Reformer
The last post is getting too comment-heavy for easy loading, I’m afraid, and while I don’t lack for inspiration for a new post – God knows there’s always enough material, from the strange please-everyone contortions of Michael McFaul to the … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Nemtsov, Corruption, Economy, Government, Investment, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged Boris Nemtsov, economy, government, liberal opposition, opinion, Politics, Russia
1,320 Comments
Don’t Forget Your Lunch
I have been persuaded, because the large number of comments on the last post is causing the post to load slowly, to move on somehow. A “stub” was recommended, which is really just a title page with no content, but … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Government, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Yulya Latynina
Tagged government, Latynina, opinion, Politics, Russia
875 Comments
The Valdai Club: Departing Reality for Self-Deception and Points North
Imagine you’re at the car lot, looking for a new car. You see a sporty model you like…but you notice the 4-cylinder variant costs $6,000.00 more than the 6-cylinder although you can see no other difference between them. When you … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Nemtsov, Economy, Government, Law and Order, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged Boris Nemtsov, economy, government, liberal opposition, opinion, Politics, role models, Russia
183 Comments
Shoshana Bryen Has a Chip on Her Shoulder. Perhaps it Came From Her Head.
August, overall, was good to us. Here on the Kremlin Stooge, we had our second-best month ever in terms of hits, and sometime a couple of days ago we rolled quietly past a quarter-million – we now sit at 256,093. … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Education, Government, Khodorkovsky, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged Education, government, opinion, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
712 Comments
No Tickee – No Takee: Miriam Elder’s Post-Dry-Cleaning Breakdown
I blame Twitter. And Facebook. Social networking sites have invested us with the belief that our every thought, emotion, and action; the self-centred minutiae of our little lives – at the same time different from everyone else and monotonously the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Education, Government, Law and Order, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, government, opinion, Politics, Russia
583 Comments
A Russophobic Rogue’s Gallery, Act II
As promised, we’re going to move on with the remainder of our Rogue’s Gallery; having a look at their stock in trade, poring over their smug prognostications and speculating on what might make them so virulently opposed to people who … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged government, liberal opposition, opinion, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia
144 Comments
