USSR

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• Climategate, Courtesy of Russia?

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 440
  The so-called controversy over the hacked emails showing what scientists were doing has had one interesting part in it, and that is who hacked the email accounts to begin with.  Skipping over the part where climate change deniers cannot seem to be bothered with things like disappearing ice in the arctic and sea ...
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  The PinchukArtCentre prizes have been awarded by a jury including Francesco Bonami (Italy), Udo Kittelmann (Germany), Jessica Morgan (UK) and Ukrainian artists Serhiy Bratkov and Boris Mikhailo. The main prize (100,000 UAH - $12,500) went to Artem Volokitin. Special prizes...
  18 hours ago

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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Massive legal battle over supply of raw materials between metal billionaires Lakshmi Mittal and Igor Kolomoisky in Ukraine; Mittals side suggests dirty tricks by Kolomoiskys side (solomin, in Russian). Now, how long before mainstream press reads IZO and reports on...
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Example of the new Ukrainian morality committee (NEK) at work (dadakinder, in Russian): The two sides [the Committee and the author Oles Ulyanenko] agreed that the NEK would withdraw its conclusion that the book, The Woman of his Dreams (Жінка...
  18 hours ago

• 21 Azar - liberation of Iranian Azarbaijan

  
  Aryamehr — Authority: 112
  His Imperial Majesty climbing into a hurricane aircraft during the campaign to liberate Iranian Azarbaijan from Soviet occupation. In 1946 (21 Azar, 1325) the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces (Army & Air Force), under the direct command of the young Shah of Iran (only 40 Days after receiving his pilot certificate ...
  2 days ago

• Photo

  
  paris87.net — Authority: 443
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• R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov

  
  Natalia Antonova — Authority: 126
  As Stirlitz in classic Soviet WWII spy drama “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” where Tikhonov played his arguably most famous and iconic role, always gave me the warm fuzzies with its ending. It talked about how this Soviet spy, who doesn’t yet know that the war will be ending later in the year, in May, is ...
  3 days ago

• An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 433
  Before Pres. Obama’s Afghanistan Speech of December 2009 Dear President Obama,  Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and ...
  4 days ago

• Stalin-Bashing: The New Orientalism?

  
  Russia — Authority: 113
  I love the BBC to bits, but I have had enough. Yet another repor t, the second ‘profile’ in a week about the resurgence of Stalin’s legacy in the former USSR, has put my knickers in a twist. This time, we see a Stalin look-alike treated ‘like our own dear Queen’ in his hometown of Gori, Georgia. ...
  4 days ago

• Nariman’s family from Uralsk, Kazakhstan

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 128
  My family lives in Uralsk, which is situated in the north-west part of Kazakhstan. It is the only city in Kazakhstan that is located in Europe. Thanks to it our football federation joined UEFA (the Union of European Football Association) in 2002. Almost all my relatives live in Uralsk, and few live here, in Almaty. ...
  5 days ago

• Car Bomb Blasts in Pakistan: Is Russia Involved Once Again?

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 490
  I still remember the dark days of General Ziaul Haq, when first time the car bomb blasts in busy markets of the Pakistan became a routine. At that the Afghan intelligence agency Khad was carrying out those attacks with the backing of the USSR. In Pakistan, once again the car bomb blasts have become a norm. Perhaps ...
  6 days ago

• Little Known about Aigul B’s Grandparents

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 128
  As long as I can remember, my grandparents didn’t share stories with me about their lives. I know about them only from my parents. I know that my grandparents had the very different childhood than I had because they were born in a difficult time which was full of different events that became a part of the history. ...
  6 days ago

• What did we learn in the College football last weekend?

  
  FryingPan Sports — Authority: 121
  Both Weis and Bowden are fired. Weis used the players recruited by Tyrone Willingham for his early success. The experience at ND proved that as head coach, Weis was one step beyond his level of competence. ND will likely never again be a regular contender for a national title. It may wander close from time to time ...
  6 days ago

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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Video of the Shiitman action (IZO, earlier). Shiitmans still in prison; I read somewhere the girl involved is in hiding
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  A look at the banking-political scandal in Kazakhstan from the point of view of Western banks exposure (NYT). This affair was flagged on IZO more than eight months ago (IZO).
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Highest sovereign default probabilities: Ukraine 1st, Latvia 5th, Lithuania 8th (CMA).
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Anti-Estonian song How Difficult It Is To Live In Estonia, on account of which the author, Sergei Bai, was called in for questioning by the Estonian police.
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  On the tradition of "bride-stealing" in the Caucasus (radulova, in Russian, with videos).
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Vardzia (bldgblog): Originally constructed in the 12th century—in a region inhabited by humans since at least neolithic times—and very much resembling one of the cave-cities of Cappadocia, Vardzia is a spatially fantastic site (and, Id assume, a videogame level waiting...
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  IZO — Authority: 488
  Series of films made about Odessa in the 1930s, text by Izaak Babel.
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