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The Russian Spring…oh, the irony of the weather

That the so-called Russian Spring should have come to an end on the most pleasant day of the season thus The uk cialis sales main reason why many new bloggers give up after just a few months is the realisation

A chill wind on Pushkinskaya: kick-starting a Russian revolution

The snow, the flashbulbs, the group of OMON thugs materialising from behind a statue of Alexander Pushkin, the sudden realisation that the middle of a frozen pond probably wasn’t the smartest place for the opposition’s leaders to hole up. You

With Vladimir Putin safely elected, riot cops go in

Within 24 hours of Vladimir Putin’s presidential election victory, widely seen as inevitable and even more widely marred by allegations of fraud, riot Oysters And Whichever Fatty Fish Oysters are famous for their effects, although men suffering from heart conditions

Putin wins: what now for Russia’s opposition?

Never has the result of an election been more uncertain. Or, rather, the result of the result. Because while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was widely expected to win yesterday’s presidential poll — which he did in a Various additional viagra side

Letter from Moscow, where they wear white ribbons in their hair

A couple of weeks ago, on the train between Vladivostok and Ulan-Ude, I befriended a 28-year-old army officer who was celebrating the end of his 10-year commission and heading back from Khabarovsk to his wife and child in the capital

Hoping for Spring in the Dead of Winter

In a Mexican restaurant in Novosibirsk, the unofficial capital of Siberia, the young are arguing with the old. Two recently politicised young women, made bold by vodka and one too many mojitos, are railing against the presidential campaign of their

Letter from Siberia, where Lenin and Putin are everywhere

When the Soviet Union fell, not all of the statues fell with it. In Moscow, in August 1991, protesters were quick to dispose of Lubyanka Square’s Iron Felix, the 15-tonne representation of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the secret police,

Letter from Vladivostok and a bridge over troubled waters

Seven months out from this year’s APEC conference, secured for Vladivostok by Vladimir Putin, whose likely return to the presidency next month means he will ultimately get to attend it, too, the city is a hive of construction activity. Standing