Stories about Russia from May, 2008
Russia: Oleg Kozlovsky Update
Political activist Oleg Kozlovsky blogs about his release from jail: “I look a little worse for wear because I refused to eat while in prison as a way of protesting...
Russia: British Fans and UEFA Cup
LJ user yashin posts LJ user marie_automne‘s pictures of the British football fans arriving in Moscow for the Champions League final. Pictures of Moscow posts a photo report from the...
Russia: Foreign Investment
Two-Zero writes about Russia's foreign investment.
Armenia, Russia: Shavarsh Karapetyan
De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about Shavarsh Karapetyan, the man who saved 20 people in the trolley bus accident in Yerevan in 1976.
Soviet History: Milk Stores on Flickr
Stephan of Everybody I Love You has created a Soviet Milk Stores group on Flickr (four pictures there so far).
Russia: Church vs Blogger Priests
Window on Eurasia writes that the Moscow Patriarchate is planning “to discipline Russian Orthodox priests who use the Internet to advance views at variance with those of the hierarchy or...
Russia: Moscow Graffiti Photos
Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow is clearing his photo backlog and posting Moscow graffiti photos dating back to 2004-2005.
Russia: Roses and Migrant Workers
Russian photographer Oleg Klimov visited a commercial greenhouse outside Moscow and posted his observations about a birthplace of the roses one buys in Russia's capital.
Ukraine: “Yulia's Bloc Blocks President for Blocking Yulia”
Orange Ukraine posts a Ukrainian politics roundup with this telling title: “Yulia's Bloc Blocks President for Blocking Yulia.”
Russia: “Siberian Language”
Window on Eurasia writes about “Siberian language.”
Russia: CIS Affairs Agency
Window on Eurasia writes on PM Putin's newly-created Federal Agency for CIS Affairs.
Ukraine: Moscow Mayor's Sevastopol Controversy
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov got himself barred from Ukraine this week, after announcing during a trip to Sevastopol - "a Ukrainian naval base mutually used by the Ukrainian Navy and Russian Navy" - that the city did not belong to Ukraine. Below are a few opinions from the Russophone blogosphere.
Russia: Bloggers on Yeltsin's Legacy
At The Lede, a translation of 13 responses to a question posted on the Russian-language LJ blog of the New York Times’ Moscow bureau: “What is Mr. Yeltsin’s legacy?“
Serbia: “A European Destiny”?
Mark Mardell's musings on Serbia's future – at Euroblog.
Georgia: Abkhazia Crisis Drones On…
Steady State is confused by the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The blog says while Abkhazia claims to have shot down numerous drones...
Ukraine: Luzhkov and Sevastopol
Ukrainiana writes about Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has been declared persona non grata in Ukraine, following his speech on the status of Sevastopol.
Ukraine: Foreign Troops
Steve Bandera of Kyiv Scoop writes about foreign military presence in Ukraine this year.
Russia: “Rules” for Activists
“A Russian blogger has offered six detailed rules for those who wish “to engage in civic activism” in that country without risking being “beaten in the head,” a guide that...
Ukraine: A Turkish View on Ukrainian Politics
A view on Ukrainian politics – from The Turkish Invasion.
Israel, Russia: Don Kozlents
Sean's Russia Blog writes about Don Kozlents: “Red Army WWII Vet + Zionism = Marxist Likudnik.”
Russia: May 9
Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow posts two informative and insightful entries on the complex politics and other dimensions of May 9 in Russia – here and here.
