The controversy caused by Georgia's Eurovision Song Contest entry seems to be over (or, depending on one's perspective, has reached its climax), now that Georgia has decided not to take part in this year's event in Moscow, following the European Broadcasting Union's demand that the l...

  Don't worry, passengers were never in any danger on this, an Aeroflot flight. After all, it's not like they're the largest airline in Russia or anything. Translation (based on a scientific process called "bullshit detection"): Pilot: Greetings, we are currently elevated ...

  Hillary Clinton told everyone about falling in love with Bill Clinton. Of course, they only want to hear about how she fell out of love with Bill Clinton. By the way, where did Rielle Hunter get the name Frances Bean from? Young women mistakenly think men want potential female partners to dri...

Filed under: Wealth Dasha Zhukova, the stunning 27-year-old girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, has been named the new editor-in-chief of hip British luxury fashion mag POP . Zhukova is the co-founder of the fashion label Kova & T, as well as the Garage Centre for Contemporary Cultu...

Below is a partial translation of a post (RUS) on health care in Russia - a caustic “unsent letter” to the Russian president, written by LJ user sobe-panek on Feb. 22. The post has made it into the Top 30 at Yandex Blogs portal and was picked up by some Russian media. […] There is ...

Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

Remember that I seemingly caught out the State Department for not knowing Polish? (here) Well, they don't know Russian either:- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in greeting Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, presented him with a red plastic button emblazoned with the English w...

Joking around is one thing, but when joking around with another country's diplomats, one should really try to make sure you have translated the joke correctly or it falls flat, as evidenced by Hillary Clinton with a "gag" gift to Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, seen in the above video. Fro...

Oops. Got to give her credit though. She was drastically ill served by her people. What? Did they Google for a translation (of "reset")? Yet she handled the screwup gracefully: I'd love to see her behind the scenes afterwards with whoever came up with that stupid button. And then there are those scr...

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry : GENEVA—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset buttonâ€� on U.S.-Russia relations. S...