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Russia: Another journalist death

Vilhelm Konnander — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:21:38 +0000

Eternal Remont reports that the editor of a Rostov-on-Don newspaper has died from injuries of a beating last month, supposedly provoked by his paper's reporting.

Russia: Lingering high mortality rates

Vilhelm Konnander — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:42:11 +0000

Streetwise Professor writes about the prevalent high mortality rates among the Russian population, based on figures from the Lancet published by Reuters, with interesting comments by Sublime Oblivion.

Russia: Paradoxes of population growth

Vilhelm Konnander — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18:30 +0000

LJ user about:blank comments on [RUS] recent research comparing Russian population growth with average income in various regions and cities 1990-2009, coming up with the interesting result that the country's second and third cities, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novogorod, are making moderate progress in comparison to many other less developed Russian regions.

Russia: Stalin visits Voronezh

Vilhelm Konnander — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:18:53 +0000

LJ user Vaziani tells about [RUS] how the local Voronezh communists have wallpapered the city with huge pictures of Joseph Stalin in commemoration of the 22 June 1941 attack on the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany.

Russia: Crackdown on casinos and gambling

Vilhelm Konnander — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:04:49 +0000

Eternal Remont discusses the Russian government's current crackdown on the country's casinos and gambling industry.

Russia: “Ingushetia, boom”

Veronica Khokhlova — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:23:01 +0000

A Fistful of Euros writes about the assassination attempt on Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and the situation in Ingushetia and other North Caucasus regions.

ISS: Photos and a Poem from Koichi Wakata

Tomomi Sasaki — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:00:45 +0000

Astronaut Koichi Wakata on the International Space Station posted some photographs, including one of Sarychev Volcano while it was erupting (Also part of NASA's Image of the Day Gallery), and a tanka poem: “My home planet enwrapped / The blue light of the atmosphere shines”.

Russia: Report on Internet Use

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:55:53 +0000

Window on Eurasia sums up “a 144-page report [on Internet use in Russia,] released this week […] by the Public Opinion Foundation on the basis of interviews with 34,000 people in 1920 cities and towns of the Russian Federation.”

Russia: Buckwheat

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:53:12 +0000

Russian Blog posts an ode to buckwheat.

Russia: Letter to Khodorkovsky

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:51:34 +0000

Jeremy Putley posts an open letter to Mikhail Khodorkovsky (who turned 46 on June 26) at A Step At A Time.

Russia, Nigeria: Nigaz

Veronica Khokhlova — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:47:52 +0000

Eternal Remont writes that “Gazprom has created a joint venture with Nigeria's state-owned NNPC gas company” and that the new company's name is Nigaz. License Plate Poetry has a poem on this - “But no, my dear, Russia is not racist” (via @jilliancyork).

Soviet History: Punk Under Totalitarian Rule

Filip Stojanovski — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Macedonian blog Panta Rei pointed out to a gallery of Soviet Punks, reminding readers that the totalitarian regime sometimes sent its youth who dressed differently to “re-education” camps.

FSU: Soviet Toys

Veronica Khokhlova — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:20:23 +0000

Photos of Soviet children's toys - at LJ user varjag_2007's blog (RUS).

Ukraine: “Lady Ethnographer”

Veronica Khokhlova — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:22:03 +0000

Maria Sonevytsky of My Simferopol Home writes on being a “lady ethnographer” in Ukraine and on xenophobia in Crimea: “Ukraine today is caught between two warring accounts of history, as it is caught between two different attitudes towards otherness, be it gendered, ethnic or raced otherness.”

Russia: Kamchatka Volcanoes Online

Veronica Khokhlova — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:43:10 +0000

Profy reports that soon it will be possible to follow Kamchatka volcanoes' eruptions online.