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Domestic Politics

Baikal Films

October 27, 2009

Lake Baikal, near Irkutsk in Russia is one of the most beautiful Lakes in the world, and it isn’t surprising that there are many Baikal films in existence. In this post I’ve compiled a list of some of my favourite films about Lake Baikal.
First up, here’s a great little documentary about Baikal:

One of [...]

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Test Post – please ignore

October 27, 2009

Hello – I’m a test post

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August: Russia’s month of Disaster

August 25, 2009

Yet another horrendous month for Russia, as a dam explosion kills 70, a suicide bomber kills 20, and a freighter goes missing very publicly in the Atlantic.

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Putin Takes a Taxi

August 8, 2009

Putin might be a macho man when he’s out in the country, but life’s a bit different back in the big city. This video chronicles his adventures trying to flag down a Moscow taxi.

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Putin goes topless on holiday – again

August 6, 2009

Putin goes on holiday, and gets his top off for the ladies… again.

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Has Alina Kabaeva given birth to Putin’s son?

May 26, 2009

Now here’s an interesting rumour circulating around the Russian language blogs – 26 year old Russian Olympic gymnast turned Duma Deputy Alina Kabaeva has just given birth to Vladimir Putin’s son.

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Russia Blog Roundup – 29 April

April 29, 2009

After your sage advice from last week I’ve decided that, rather than post a weekly news update (which, lets face it, you can get anywhere) I thought I’d re-start my weekly roundup of great posts from around the Russia blogs.
So, drumroll please…
The best posts from the last week or so are (in no particular order):

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Court kicks Alexander Lebedev out of Sochi Mayor’s Race

April 15, 2009

A Sochi court kicks Alexander Lebedev out of the race to become Sochi’s next mayor.

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Medvedev to do topless photo shoot?

March 29, 2009

I love this comment from Dmitry Medvedev’s recent interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr:
ANDREW MARR: You are planning to come to London soon. And it seems to us that in the West we all know Mr. Putin, we even saw some of his topless photos where he is without a shirt. But we are not [...]

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Tiger Lillies Russia Concert

March 24, 2009

If you’re in Russia and looking for an unusual night out, you might want to check out British band the Tiger Lillies (here’s the Russian Tiger Lillies site), who are playing at the Cisterna Hall, Moscow on 3rd April and at the Glav Club, St Petersburg on 4 April.
This is one of my favourite Tiger [...]

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Kasparov: In the Holy Fire of Revolution

March 12, 2009

Garry Kasparov – from the world’s greatest chess player to a minor Russian politician with lousy choice in friends.
And now, film star.
In the Holy Fire of Revolution, directed by Masha Novikova, follows Kasparov’s doomed attempt to stand for the Presidency of Russia last year.
I haven’t seen the film yet [...]

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Medvedev rips into Politkovskaya prosecutors

February 26, 2009

I’m really beginning to enjoy Dmitry Medvedev’s no-nonsense approach to assessing Russia’s weaknesses and to telling people off.
He certainly doesn’t mince words, but what I particularly like is that he doesn’t restrict his criticism to safe, relatively unimportant targets. Take, for example, his lambasting of Russia’s prosecutors following the shambolic trial of [...]

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Medvedev: “We’re rubbish at e-government”

February 18, 2009

It’s nice to see such an honest assessment of Russia’s IT and information infrastructure from Dmitry Medvedev. I think it’s well worth repeating here:
“As for electronic government, today virtually all federal structures are provided with modern computers connected to the Internet. Almost all state agencies have set up a database, but that is all [...]

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Test post – please ignore :-)

February 8, 2009

This is a test post and will be deleted shortly. Please don’t bother to read it. Thankyou.

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Putin doodles

December 13, 2008

I stumbled across this picture of Putin doodling during a meeting:

I thought it’d be fun to check what the doodles mean.  According to this site about the meaning of doodles, tight loops signify that the doodler is nervous or tense, and the square box could mean that Putin is disciplined, structured and possibly a bit [...]

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