I’m back from my travels, and its time to trawl through my RSS feeds. Here’s my pick of Russia related blog posts from the past 7 days:

• Copydude has posted photos of a bunch of Nashi activists running around Kaliningrad - dressed as 500 rouble notes.
• Darkness at Noon is a new blog from an expat in Moscow who lives on President Putin’s daily route to work.
• Sweden is increasingly fearful of Russia, and turning to Norway for support, says Edward Lucas.
• Stunning pictures of the Moscow metro, from English Russia.
• My morning with Yulia Tymoshenko - Laurence Jarvik posts his observations on her recent press conference in Washington. It seems she has ambitions of a tilt at the Ukrainian presidency in 2009.
• Lenin in Siberia!
• Wolfhound - Russia’s answer to Lord of the Rings? Russia Blog has the review, complete with pictures.
• Pictures of Russian buses. I think I’ve been on the one from Irkutsk.  Nice view, bumpy ride.
• Next week’s Miss Russia final will be held in Russia.  Sochi Blog has the all the news you need to know.
• Sean looks at Russia’s brand of capitalism and democracy.
• Tim Newman explains why Russians hate Americans.
• Just Russia held its first party conference this week.  Is the party a Kremlin stooge, or a genuinely independent party?
• The US has decided it wants a missile defense site in the Caucasus.  Captain’s Quarters thinks its a blunt message to Putin that the US will not be cowed.  Somehow, I can’t really imagine the US being cowed by anybody at the moment…

OK.  That’s quite enough linking for one day.