The Putinator turns 60
From the Guardian: Men climbed peaks and unfurled his portrait, while women flirted shamelessly in videos that quickly went viral: Russians celebrated Vladimir Putin‘s 60th birthday on Sunday with adulation fit for a king.
Sun, October 7 2012 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » 1 Comment
Anna Politkovskaya tells a threat story
Today marks the sixth anniversary of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s death (by coincidence, Oct. 7 is also the birthday of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin). An essay written by Politkovskaya about two months before she died (and published in the Washington Post eight days after she was shot to death) circulated on Twitter today.