Russians Need To Respect Themselves
Teemu Matinpuro, executive director of the Finnish Peace Committee, and Kerkko Paananen, information secretary of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum (FINROSFORUM), gave an interview to Lyudmila Mamina, editor-in-chief of Kasparov.Ru, about the Finnish edition of Novaya Gazeta, the attitude of Finnish society to Anna Politkovskaya, the war in Chechnya, and the current political situation in Russia.
Revolution U
The Serbian capital is home to the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to translate their success to other countries. To the world's autocrats, they are sworn enemies, but to a young generation of democracy activists from Harare to Rangoon to Minsk to Tehran, the young Serbs are heroes. They have worked with democracy advocates from more than 50 countries. They have advised groups of young people on how to take on some of the worst governments in the world. In the summer of 2009, Mohamed Adel, a 20-year-old blogger and activist, went to Belgrade, where he took a week-long course in the strategies of nonviolent revolution. He learned how to organize people -- not on a computer, but in the streets. And most importantly, he learned how to train others. He went back to Egypt and began to teach.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u
"The older I get, the more I respect Marx"
The rule of law is a universal value, as are human rights. In Russia, I have met with "sovereign democracy" as some sort of opponent to human rights. In Asia, I have met with "Asian values." I do not think human dignity is minimised because of the colour of your skin. I think that human dignity is minimised because elites have an economic interest in screwing people. That is one of the reasons why I am not just a human rights lawyer; I believe that much of the political repression we see is economic in nature. The older I get, the more I respect Karl Marx.
http://www.diplomaatia.ee/?id=242&L=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1227
Официальное заявление "Другой России"
Нахуй суши, даешь шаурму!В районе метро "Алексеевская" закрыли мою любимую Шаурму -- бюджетное круглосуточное заведение, где можно было выпить и съесть эту самую шаурму. Теперь вместо шаурмы еще один офис МТС. Вот нахуя мне еще один офис МТС и ни одной, сука, шаурмы в моем районе!? Зато, блядь, еще один суши-пицца-доставка ресторан открывается. Нахуя? Седьмой ресторан суши-пицца-доставка с настоящими японскими поварами-официантами из солнечного Бишкека! Седьмой! Кому он тут к чертовой матери нужен?! Шлю лучи поноса и ненависти компании МТС, суши-ресторанам, и Сергею Собяниновичу Семенову персонально. Требую бюджетных заведений и шаурмы. Суши нахуй.
http://alaverin.livejournal.com/94749.html
Ближайшее Подмосковье
Ближайшее подмосковье — район вокруг Москвы, жители которого всё ещё считают себя москвичами. Район, жителей которого москвичи считают москвичами, называется Садовое кольцо. Области, жителей которых никто уже не считает москвичами, называются Дальнейшее подмосковье, и заканчиваются Лондоном на западе и Мурманском на севере. Все остальные области не имеют к Москве никакого отношения, и называются Нью-Йорком.
http://absurdopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ближайшее_Подмосковье
Russia's Diamond Capital
Mirny is a town in Russia's Sakha Republic (Yakutia), located 820 kilometers west of Yakutsk on the Irelyakh River. The town's population is around 40,000. The settlement was founded in 1955 after the discovery of a nearby kimberlite pipe. There is a massive diamond pit in the town. It is 525 meters deep and has a diameter of 1.25 kilometers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirny,_Sakha_Republic
The Curse of Superpowers
WikiLeaks above all shows the difficulty the US has in understanding other cultures and societies. The cables show an entire corporate mindset at work on world populations who must surely be, in their psychological make up, just like Americans. How do you tell a world superpower that the world's other 4.5 billion do not think the American, Chinese, or [Russian] way? That societies and cultures are as complex, subtle, and various as the millions of people who compose them. How do you prevent superpowers who, in trying to understand the rest of the world, take it to be their own reflections in a mirror coming back at them?
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/160-world-understanding
Imitation of Imperial Life
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was an inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword — as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks.
http://3weirdsisters.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/someone-stop-this-man-before-he-writes-again/
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