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A Final Nail in the USSR Coffin? Thank You From NATO, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Posted April 14, 2014 | 12:11 PM (Huffington Post)
Life and a Coffin
Russian president (for life?) Vladimir Putin, perhaps unknowingly, is putting a final nail in the coffin of the performer (artist is too strong a word) formerly known as the Soviet Union.
1. By acquiring an economic basket case, Crimea -- and perhaps...
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A note on Ukraine/Crimea/Aksyonov (John Brown's Notes and Essays)
Rather surprising that among the Western pundits I've read (and there are so many of them, the pundits!) speculating on Ukraine none of them has mentioned Aksyonov's "Ostrov krym"
in connection with the recent events in that part of the world. Here's a plot summary of a quite remarkable (and humorous) book:
In The Island of Crimea, set on the Crimean peninsula, Aksyonov imagines that Crimea is an autonomous society separated from the Soviet Union. The novel is another social satire reliant on a stretch of the imagination, but it is deemed less surrealistic and far-fetched than Aksyonov's previous works.
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Posted February 2, 2014 | 4:53 PM (Huffington Post)
TOP SECRET
FROM: The Directorate, CIA
TO: The President of the United States
SUBJECT: Sochi Olympics
TO: The President of the United States
SUBJECT: Sochi Olympics
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By Executive Order, illegal or not, POTUS should reschedule the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl (February 2) to Sochi, where the Winter Olympic Games are opening in...
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Sochi, Tsar Vladimir's Black Sea St. Vladimirsburg
(0) Comments | Posted January 6, 2014 | 4:22 PM (Huffington Post)
It is not unimportant to remember, in connection with the controversial Winter Olympics soon to be held in Sochi in the Russian Federation, that President Vladimir Putin hails from St. Petersburg, the city (in the Soviet era known as Leningrad) created in the early 18th century by Peter the Great...