Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin

Old Habits

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

By Wolfgang Horsch, Suddeutsche Zeitung

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Free The Pussy Rioters (2)

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the closing statement of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Finally, I’d like to quote a Pussy Riot song because, strange as it may seem, all our songs have turned out to be prophetic, including the one that says: “The KGB chief, their … Continue reading →

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How It Is

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via what looks like the distinctly lefty Chtodelat News, the closing statement of Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the Pussy Riot three, and, in this extract, an argument of some subtlety: The fact that Christ the Savior Cathedral [the scene of … Continue reading →

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Mustn’t Diss the Russian Orthodox Church

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Interesting report out of Estonia: Officials are remaining mum for now on a report from the Russian human rights organization Agora that a Karelia-based blogger, Maksim Jefimov, has asked for political asylum in Estonia. Jefimov is facing criminal prosecution for … Continue reading →

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Putin Eases?

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Here (via the Daily Telegraph) is some encouraging news on the story of those three naughtily-named girls who staged a protest in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral against Putin and, by implication, the role played by … Continue reading →

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Mime in the Cathedral

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Edward Lucas launches into the Putin regime and, of course, the prosecution of those three young women with the Corner-unfriendly name (including some interesting details about what it was that they … Continue reading →

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“Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality”

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: In an attempt to counter the growing encroachment of liberalism into his realm, Czar Nicholas I (reigned 1825-55) argued for an empire based on the three pillars of “Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality”, an idea that came … Continue reading →

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Free the Pussy Rioters!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the New York Times: MOSCOW — When four young women in balaclavas performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in February, it seemed like just one more episode in a season … Continue reading →

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Paul into Putin

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Telegraph: Vladimir Putin has become the object of veneration for a bizarre Russian all-female sect whose followers believe that the tough-talking prime minister is a reincarnation of the early Christian missionary Paul the Apostle. Members of the … Continue reading →

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