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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Perils of Water
Three interesting stories, all tied with Russia and water.
1. The explosion at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia. Though the official Russian version is that it was a blown transformer, the Chechen separatists / terrorists are claiming that it’s their work:
A decision was taken at the start of the year at a meeting of the council of [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile Tagged chechnya, corruption, georgia, international relations, military, nato, politics, putin, usa, video, western media 7 Comments
Translation: “Radio Liberty – The Liberty of Mendacity”
One of my readers, Fedia Kriukov, kindly pointed me to a LiveJournal blog post by Ksenia Larina from August 13th, 2009. She’s been working with the liberal “Echo of Moscow” radio station since 1991 and her husband, Rinat Valiulin, had accepted a position with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in February 2009. In uncompromising [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Translations Tagged corruption, human rights, liberasm, russophobes, translation, western hypocrisy, western media 13 Comments
One Nation under CCTV
Now we’ve all known for some time that Britain is degenerating into a neoliberal version of East Germany, with its endemic surveillance and database wet dreams, and few things really surprise me any more, but every so often it manages to plumb an even deeper level of insanity. This time the thieving crooks and totalitarian [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Tagged authoritarianism, britain, collapse, corruption, crime, demography, economy, eire, energy, human rights, matrix, politics, resource depletion, scotland, western media 16 Comments
New Russia-Georgia War?
Whispers of war are heard in the Caucasus, as the anniversary of last year’s South Ossetian War approaches. Will the guns of August be fired in anger to mark the occasion? Vote below. This poll will be open throughout August. (Image left: Russian S-300 being unloaded in Abkhazia).
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile Tagged armenia, chechnya, geopolitics, georgia, imperialism, international relations, military, nato, war, western hypocrisy, western media 44 Comments
Reconsidering Parshev
In most Russian bookstores, there is a bookshelf or two dedicated to so-called “patriotic literature” – reappraisals of Stalin against “liberal revisionism”, overviews of Russia’s secret super-weapons, the exploits of its special forces and Russian theo-philosophy. Much of it is (apparent) nonsense, but the economic crisis has forced me to reconsider one particular “patriotic” thesis [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Tagged agriculture, central asia, china, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, morale, peak oil, resource depletion, ukraine, usa, vision 13 Comments
Missing the Forest for the Trees
Russia is commonly represented as one of the most corrupt countries in the world in the Western media, ruled over by Kremlin clans who sugarcoat their kleptocracy with bombastic nationalism. The most oft-cited evidence comes from Transparency International. This is an organization which aggregates surveys of foreign businesspeople and regional analysts to compile a Corruption [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile Tagged corruption, crime, economy, guest, russians, western media 6 Comments
The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich