Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Putin’

Vlad the Impaler

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 16, 2004 | Comments Off

Vlad the Impaler. Well, the up side of voting from Party (yes, with a capital P) lists, is that the Russian populace is intimately familiar with them. And by the way, Dick Cheney must be stopped. The man is just ridiculous. The Chechen War is Not About al-Qaeda, God Dammit. They are not (generally) jihadists. [...]

Read Full Post »

Backslide

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 14, 2004 | Comments Off

Putin Moves to Centralize Authority (washingtonpost.com) This is what I majored in, and as people who know me will tell you, I have lamented the end of the cold war for years! (I know, I know.) But my main area of interest, historically speaking, was “Russia As Empire” and well, that was over well before [...]

Read Full Post »

But you JUST SAID IT!

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on September 11, 2004 | Comments Off

But you JUST SAID IT! The New York Times > AP > International > Putin Agrees to Inquiry Into Russian School Siege: “U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that it was too soon to say whether al-Qaida played any role in the school attack, but he said there was an “absolutely” a connection between [...]

Read Full Post »

Vlad on Beslan

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 4, 2004 | Comments Off

Putin Criticizes Law Enforcement After School Siege (washingtonpost.com): “Speaking slowly, wearing a dark suit and standing next to the Russian flag” I don’t mean to make light of the situation, but this is just some TERRIBLE writing! What leaps to mind reading this bit is, “Duh”. Can’t think of many folks who wouldn’t do just [...]

Read Full Post »

  • Archives

  • Admin

  • Pages

  • wordpress visitor counter