A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
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posted by zaina19 on July, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/1/2007 3:47 PM A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia Publication time: 1 July 2007, 14:28 Anna Politkovskaya's reporting was never meant for beach reading. In A Russian Diary, the late investigative journalist, who was murdered last October outside her Moscow apartment, depicts life in Vladimir Putin's Russia with some of the sweep of Tolstoy and a lot of the darkness of Dostoyevsky. For those of us who have spent the last few years poring over news from the Middle East and ignoring the dragon in the Kremlin, Politkovskaya's posthumous diary offers a welcome tutorial in recent Russian history. She begins with the basics: How, after being elected in 2000, Putin rigged the 2003 parliamentary elections and then convinced the Duma to give him the power to appoint previously elected regional leaders, effectively ending the near-autonomy of the provinces and their ability to protest Kremlin policy (One of his supporters, the current prime minister of ... >> full
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LIMONKA: Lugovoy Serves Death
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/1/2007 9:12 PM LIMONKA: Lugovoy Serves Death Edward Limonov By Edward Limonov nbpinfo@gmail.com Browse Author (60) « Previous (59) On June 15, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda have published an interview with Andrei Lugovoy, who is suspected by British police to be the executor of Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko's story was a headliner for the world media for the last eight months and is a still a headliner. Exotical weapons used for killing - radioactive polonium - as well as personalities of both the victim (Litvinenko) and the suspected killer (Lugovoy), ex-FSB officers both, keeps interest of media boiling. For me, nonetheless, it was a shocking surprise to discover that my name was pronounced by the sinister Mr. Lugovoy. During the interview, he said that political killing is in stage of preparation for "some man, who has already obtained the image of a fighter against existing Russian authorities, he is destined to become a sacred martyr. For example, so-called oppositional candidates to presidency. They should hire themselves an ... >> full
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Eilean a' Cheò is a bridge too far
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/2/2007 7:38 AM The Scotsman Mon 2 Jul 2007 Eilean a' Cheò is a bridge too far DONALD REID SUMMER, and the silly season is upon us, so here's a silly thing. Rumours were rife that Highland Council was going to rename the Isle of Skye, calling it Chechnya, or something like that. In fact, the councillors anxiously re-assure us, it's only the council ward that is being renamed, and not the island as such. A pretty fine distinction. No doubt the councillors realised that there's actually quite a lot in a name. Skye is mine, in a way, just as much as theirs, but they didn't consult me. It seems the advance of aggressive Gaelicism is becoming unstoppable. How would we feel if the Edinburgh Council decided to call their city Drumsheugh, or another random name? Would only voting residents have the right to object? I was in Torridon a week or so back doing some hillwalking. I climbed eight Munros, six of which have ... >> full
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Welcome to the curious relationship between Bush and Putin
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
vFrom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/6/2007 9:55 AM July 6, 2007 Friends, yet foes Welcome to the curious relationship between Bush and Putin By PETER WORTHINGTON Those who hate President George Bush with a passion that borders on the pathological, and those who mistrust Russia's Vladimir Putin with matching zeal, must wonder at the apparent friendship of the two men. For friendship it seems to be. Neither panders to the other, both are open in their disagreements, yet each seems to genuinely, cautiously trust the other. This makes some people uneasy, other people hopeful. A growing number of people have lost confidence in Bush -- much of it deserved, not all of it related to the war in Iraq. As for Putin, from what is known of his background and methods, there's little reason for much confidence. The bloom is off him. Usually he's described as being KGB at his core -- cold-eyed, hard hearted, determined to restore Russia to being like it was when it was the Soviet Union ... >> full
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Двойной стандарт: double standard
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/6/2007 2:29 PM Friday, July 6, 2007 Russian Double Vision By Michele A. Berdy Двойной стандарт: double standard Are translators natural-born obsessives who were drawn to the field because it provided boundless scope for our nitpicking, or did we start out as normal people whom translation turned into nitpickers and obsessives? When we get a hold of some word or group of words, we're like terriers with a bone. We just won't leave it alone until it has been licked clean, pulverized into bone meal, and used to fertilize the garden. Which is to say that I'm still stuck in the terrible twos. Or rather all the doubles and duals that are conveyed by двойной, двойственный and двоякий. Of the three, двоякий is the most straightforward. As an adjective or adverb (двояко), it refers to anything that is dual or ambivalent: Фильм можно истолковать двояко. (The film could be interpreted in two ways.) Двойственный refers to something that has two aspects, usually contradictory. You can talk about ... >> full
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