Being temporarily stationed on holiday in Bulgaria, I receive a diet of CNN and BBC news. I can only take so much of it (I will have returned to Russia before anyone reads this), but in case you are missing it at home, I can assure you that the "Russia stole our election" theme is still running hot and heavy.with the Americans and their British sycophants. All sorts of lugubrious … Read the rest
There has been some debate lately about films concerning so-called "Russian Revisionism." The one about "Pavfilov's 28" has been talked to death, but I see now that another film, "Viking" (the story of Vladimir the Great), apparently has skyrocketed to number one at the box office and generated a controversy of its own. In this case, the bellyaching is because the inhabitants of Kievan Rus are portrayed as, well, heathens. … Read the rest
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I scratch my head in wonder at why some people want to plant bombs in cinemas or attack people with broken glass over the issue of whether a long-dead and politically inept Russian czar, a century ago, had a girlfriend prior to his official marriage.
But when you pull it all together — and assuming it wasn’t a conspiracy, as one of my students thinks, dreamed up … Read the rest
