By Eric Le Roy
‘We have fallen in the dreams the ever living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”
(Yeats)
My life at an advanced age vacillates between flashes of murderous rage and periods of unaccountable serenity. When I sense the futility of thinking that anything much is going to change during my ‘golden years’, I … Read the rest
The news that the Russian wheelchair-bound singer Yulia Samoylova has been given a three-year ban from entering Ukraine — thus spoiling her chances of representing her country in the Eurovision — causes me to recall the time when I first came to Russia. I confess — with more than a little shame now — that back then I couldn't have told you much about which country was which. I thought … Read the rest
