I think it is time for our jailbird to fly free #FREEMBK
This is so beyond true it hurts.
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People put flowers in homage to the victims of the January 24 blast at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, on January 25, 2011. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed today to avenge the Moscow airport bombing that killed 35 people, saying that ‘retribution is inevitable’.
So sad…
(this was filmed three weeks before his arrest)
Up early studying for my Urbanization midterm…
watching a video from 2003 about Russia’s transition to a capitalist system.
President Vladimir Putin told the oligarchs they could keep the wealth they had acquired provided they stay out of politics.
Fuck. That sent chills up my spine.
Just heard Senator Brown speak on US-Russian relations.
Pretty smart blue-blood dude. But he is on the Veterans Affairs Committee so I’m a fan. And he knows Russian realpolitik pretty hardcore.
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Bears in fog. In one of the most interesting places in the world, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia.
Moscow bans night-time vodka sales in health drive
Moscow banned night-time sales of vodka and other spirits on Wednesday, part of a nationwide drive to curb crime and disease linked with Russia’s national drink.
Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the Kursk disaster. When I joined the Navy I was it had only happened a year prior. Given some of my fellow sailors in school and ultimately at work had been submariners they spoke of the dangers and risk that was taken. Even after the Cold War was “over”. The Kursk disaster was a huge tragedy for its sailors and the country. The initial refusal of Western help to its cover-up and ultimately the many unanswered questions for the family of the dead sailors.
“It’s dark here to write, but I’ll try by feel. It seems like there are no chances, 10-20%. … Regards to everybody, no need to be desperate.
- Lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov, Ranking Officer’s last recorded note from the K-141 Kursk
If you’re interested in submarines and the Cold War, please check out, “Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage” by Sherry Sontag. It reads like a Tom Clancy novel but is fact, not fiction.
