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 ...

Bloggers of Kazakhstan continue to follow closely the situation in the country and the government's attempts to switch on a “manual control� mode in economy and other spheres of social life. Dass is citing [ru] the Minister of Labor, who declared at the governmental meeting that around 900,0...

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 ...

"Черно�отенцы" и Революци�, Мо�ква, 1998. Тем, кто не интере�ует�� еврей�ким вопро�ом, очень рекомендую по�леднюю главу 7. �е помню, кто �ту книгу мне порекомендовал, но...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 10 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. A quiet economic war is now being fought and the future of Europe hangs in the balance. As with much of the Cold War this struggle is mostly happening in secret. Unlike the Cold War (until, as ...

Si te gusta el buen pop independiente made in spain tendrás al Contemporanea como una de esas citas anuales ineludibles, como una final de un mundial de fútbol para un amante del deporte rey. Un festival que se caracteriza por traernos año a año la mejor alineación posible a un módico precio, ...

“But Jews do not fight.” “These Jews do.” A very late review of this and no notes to go on except the above quote. What I always like, expect, and usually get from Edward Zwick’s movies (okay, I’ve only seen Glory, Last Samurai, the slightly anomalous The Seige an...

RIA Novosti - Russia - Obama 'ready to drop shield plans for Russian help on Iran' MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran's nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White...

If I were prone to judge books DVDs by their covers, I would have thought that Trackman was like a cool Russian homage to My Bloody Valentine or, at the very least, a slasher movie about a big lumbering bad dude with a penchant for pickaxing his way through humans.  As I do actually judge DVDs by t...