You are quite correct - it is a clumsy attempt at best, at least for anyone following Russian politics :) I, for one, am already spotting three big anti-internet names in the newly formed group that … (View Post)

You know there's something *very* wrong going on when it rains for days in Russia in the very middle of winter. We haven't even seen proper snow *yet*. (View Post)

There was a proposal by some official in Russia to increase the legal age by one year every year, so that essentially those who already smoked could continue doing so, while new generation would be p… (View Post)

It's bewildering how on one hand you are very rational about international politics, yet not notice it is identical to what I'd been saying about left/right confrontation. Or, another analogy, USAF h… (View Post)

Insanity at its finest. This is precisely among the lines of what I expected would happen, when Trump was still running for president in 2016. And precisely why populist politicians should not be pre… (View Post)