Daily Archives: February 8, 2009

Don’t you go and think that Obama is the only political figure who recently engaged his country’s youth in the political debate successfully. His now Russian counterpart, President Dmitry Medvedev, just like before him Vladimir Putin, is at the top of his game in this area too – as the […]

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s few remaining independent newspapers, is burying this month its fifth murdered journalist in the past eight years. [see AP and Moscow Times stories here below]. I wish I could say these are rare and unusually horrifying events, but I used to read about such news […]