Who says that Russians don’t have a sense of humor? Watch the video (below) and then read the article Making a Little Fun of Russia’s Powerful (New York Times), which gives some more background information regarding the video skit. Thanks to Joera Mulders for first posting the video.
When it aired last night, I was out on [...]
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Tag Archive: medvedev
Putin and Medvedev are Singing Comic Couplets
Russia and the Perils of Personal Diplomacy
In today’s Room for Debate (Opinion) section of the New York Times, the Editors ask three Russian experts the following question:
In his first summit meeting with the Russians, is it important for President Obama to develop a personal bond with President Dmitri A. Medvedev? Such ties between the leaders of the United States and Russia [...]
Kremlin RSS Feeds Not Validating
The Kremlin website offers its english language visitors the opportunity to subscribe to 5 separate RSS/Atom feeds. As all of you know, I thought it might be beneficial if Russia Watchers could subscribe to these RSS feeds through the mobile SMS platform of Twitter.com.
So I created the Twitter account called Kremlin_ru_eng and used the service [...]
Kremlin_ru_eng News
I suspect by now most of you have heard of Twitter and some of you are actively using it. If not, Twitter is a “micro-blogging” service which is now the fastest growing “social network” in the world. Basically, you can broadcast from your account SMS messages up to a maximum of 140 characters in length. [...]
Your Move President Obama
Peter Lavelle writes an insightful article on President Medvedev’s State of the Union address on Wednesday November 5th.
Here’s the link to Peter’s article.
As Sergey on one of the forums so succintly put it, Medvedev was basically saying:
Guys, there are red lines. One of them was crossed, and there was a war which we had to [...]
