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you get to recognise your own, don’t you, mr smiley. bits about russia and former ussr for lrb, bbc, cnn, guardian, espn and the rest. наше будущее – туман
г. Дубайск, Московская областьJoined April 2009
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the more i think about it, the more i see similarities between russians and the war and brits and the royal family -- about 20% are ardent supporters, about 20% are ardently against, the rest don't pay it any attention and just want to get on with their lives
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Добавлю еще что Акрон до вчера не проиграл в кубке ни разу, а Kраснодар аж три раза проиграл. Но Краснодар вышел. Логика по-РФСски...
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тем более, ЦСКА обыграл Краснодар в 1/4 финале. Потом Краснодар получил еще 1/4 финал а теперь у них "финал этап 2", который вообще полуфинал, и может быть в финале против ЦСКА, несмотря на том, что ЦСКА уже обыграл Краснодар в 1/4 финале. Нахуй нам это все надо?
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формат кубка России просто ебанутый. Урал проиграл в полуфинале (который называется "финал") и получил.... еще полуфинал (который называется "финал этап 2", но "финал этап 1" был отдельный от "финала" в котором Урал проиграл). make it make sense
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choose your fighter. the aftershocks of the demise of the talking politics empire
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danilikin’s book still unread on my shelf, but in this review budraitskis outlines the contradictory official memory of lenin in russia today, which should (but probably won’t) provoke people to rethink the lazy “ussr 2.0” narratives of putin’s imperialism newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/a
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a pretty remarkable drop off in the quality of the books on the pushkin house prize shortlists from 2022 (left) to 2023 (right)
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walking around almaty listening to ’s fantastic second espisode. don’t think there’s another podcast out there which could have produced an episode like this
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been in almaty about an hour and been in one pub so far. they’re showing live snooker, allowing a kazakh guy to sing enrique iglesias on karaoke, have an indian chef/menu, and a pint of estrella is two quid. what a place
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eat well and own a good coat - jerry westerby is the only wellness guru anyone needs
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great piece by james meek on "message news" and the dangers, often unheeded by twitter journalists, of treating telegram videos from either side of the frontline of russia's war in ukraine as news lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/
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quite odd that the title of the book is just lifted from moshe lewin’s book of the same name, which is already a classic of soviet historiography
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i was wondering what had become of the srb podcast. it's good to see it back -- albeit in in a new form as the eurasian knot -- with a brilliant first episode and sean (now ) tweeting again
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mashing up common soviet elision "VLADdimir LENin" and the name of the protagonist of pelevin's "generation p", maxim "vladlen tatarskiy" fomin had a bizarre cultural hinterland. singing same songs as america's 4chan nationalists and capital rioters, but from different hymn sheet
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surreal to watch a video of evan being dragged into lefortovo courthouse. hasn't happened since 1986, when nick daniloff was dragged into the same courthouse. solidarity to evan and to my remaining foreign friends in moscow, who must now wonder if they are also to be used as bait
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you could easily swap krug in for cohen on dance me to the end of love and cohen in for krug on Девочка-пай
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is "dance me to the end of love" by leonard cohen the most russkiy shanson song ever that wasn't written in russian? you could replace him with mikhail krug or a pugacheva/kuzmin duet and nobody would notice
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great piece by on the man who proves, more than any other, my theory that being incredibly stupid is no barrier to becoming a political scientist
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re-reading this classic after about 10 years, now that i’ve recruited some actual soviet baby boomers from saratovskaya oblast as second generation in-laws
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sat in a restaurant near the border with oman. three mid-60s geordie women sat at the next table. they just sat down, called the waiter over and ordered three pints of a stella and an ash tray. living their best lives
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how many random military level divers (not affiliated with any state, of course) are knocking around the baltic with explosives? nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/
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it really is amazing that navalny's team still, after all this time, see their greatest weakness (in terms of demographics of support) as their greatest strength newyorker.com/news/the-new-y
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newcastle fan journalists, who will insist on telling you that it’s a big club, treating the carabao like the world cup and champions league final rolled into one. lads, it’s the league cup…
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something for anyone out there who battles with transliterating proper nouns into cyrillic
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a quite critical look at where we are with sanctions, one year on
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Me: Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
Adam Tooze: this is the nature of the poly crisis
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i think tooze’s polycrisis is bollocks and have been reading his stuff about it. i’ve come to the conclusion that it’s basically him updating “we didn’t start the fire” for the 2020s and he fails to appreciate it was always burning, since the world’s been turning
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lived in istanbul 2011/12. were still some gecekondu shacks on my street, which were demolished and replaced with finished apartments in 6 months. little regard for any building safety regulations. it was obvious that seismic activity would be catastrophic
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asked about the charges, city manager pep guardiola replied: "i am so, so happy"
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a good article i never expected to read - in the economist on 's descent into conspiracy theories economist.com/1843/2023/01/2
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