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July 5th, 2008

Russia: Farewell to “Khrushchevki”

Veronica Khokhlova · 00:47

lingua → fr

Earlier this week, LJ user drugoi, one of the most popular and prolific Russian bloggers, posted 17 photos from a Moscow neighborhood of Khrushchev-era apartment blocks, commonly known as khrushchevki, pyatietazhki, or khrushchoby. The neighborhood is about to disappear, to make room for more up-to-date residential high-rises. Below is some of the text that accompanies drugoi's photos, and a few of the 331 comments that the post has generated. 2 comments · »»

June 24th, 2008

Russia: “Football Revolution”

Veronica Khokhlova · 00:59

lingua → mk · mg · fr · es

It was a wild, sleepless night in Russia, following the national football team's 3-1 win over the Netherlands and its advance to the Euro 2008 semi-finals on Saturday. In the streets of Moscow, some 500,000 fans celebrated this unexpected victory - and similar euphoria engulfed most Russian cities as well. Below are a few reactions and photo posts by Russian bloggers. 0 comments · »»

June 10th, 2008

Russia: Freedom of the Press

Veronica Khokhlova · 01:01

lingua → mk · mg · it · es

An interesting discussion on the freedom of the press in Russia took place in the New York Times' Russian-language LJ community: an article by Clifford J. Levy, translated into Russian, received over 1,000 comments from the Russian bloggers, and 45 of these comments were then translated into English and featured ... 0 comments · »»

May 31st, 2008

Ukraine, Russia: Personae Non Gratae

Veronica Khokhlova · 17:17

lingua → zht · zhs · es

On May 12, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was declared persona non grata in Ukraine, following his calls for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. On May 15, Russia denied entry to Vladyslav Kaskiv, one of the leaders of the 2004 protests in Kyiv and member of the Our Ukraine/People's Self-Defense faction in the Ukrainian parliament. LJ user varfolomeev66, a Russian journalist, compares the two cases. 0 comments · »»

May 22nd, 2008

Ukraine: A View From Crimea

Veronica Khokhlova · 22:35

lingua → es · bn · it

Last week, Ukraine banned Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov from the country, after he called for Russia to take ownership of Sevastopol, a Ukrainian Black Sea naval port. The incident received much coverage in the Russian and Ukrainian media and blogs. Below is one more post, written by a Russophone resident of Balaklava, a Crimean town that has an official status of a district of the city of Sevastopol. 0 comments · »»

Moldova, Turkey: Natalya Morar's Istanbul Airport Adventure

Veronica Khokhlova · 00:22

lingua → mk · sq · bn · jp · ar · es · zht · zhs

Natalia Morar, a journalist who was deported from Russia after a Russian magazine ran her stories on the alleged siphoning of huge sums of money abroad by the country's high-ranking officials, blogs about how she almost got deported from Turkey by the unsuspecting Turkish border guards. 1 comment · »»

May 15th, 2008

Russia: Roses and Migrant Workers

Veronica Khokhlova · 23:33

lingua → bn · jp · zht · zhs · es

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. 0 comments · »»

Ukraine: Moscow Mayor's Sevastopol Controversy

Veronica Khokhlova · 00:06

lingua → es

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. 6 comments · »»

Links about Russia

July 6th, 2008

Copydude comments on the US Missile Defence Shield, Poland and Lithuania.

Author Tom de Waal guest-blogs about changing Russian-Azeri relations at The Oil and the Glory as Russian President Medvedev heads for Baku.

Mmd Russia Blog draws attention to a recent report on the Krasnodar region and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

July 5th, 2008

Russian Cyberspace posts an update about a Russian blogger on trial and internet censorship.

Unzipped comments on recent statements made by newly-elected Russian president Dmitry Medvedev as well as the Council of Europe and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reaffirming the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. The blog asks its readers somewhat rhetorically if the statements represent the failure of Armenian foreign policy.

July 3rd, 2008

Edward Lucas writes about the investigation of Georgi Markov's 1978 murder.

LJ user tapirr posts Masha Novikova's documentary about Anna Politkovskaya: “Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline” (RUS, with English subtitles).

July 1st, 2008

LJ user yustas posts a photo tribute to Moscow's Detskiy Mir (”Children's World”) toy store, which closed down for renovations yesterday, for the next three years.