Archive - March 2007

The political tensions that have been building in Ukraine over the past year or so may well come to a head over the next few days. Two rival protests have been organised in Kiev this weekend. One for supporters of...

There’s a guy in my apartment block whose first name is Stalin. Well, I thought it was interesting. Anyway, you can learn more about Stalin (the former Soviet leader, not the guy who lives in my building) by...

A bit of a change of pace this month, as I interview one of the most prominent and, dare I say, senior, Central Asia bloggers, Nathan Hamm. Nathan founded Registan.net way back in 2003, when he was its only author...

Ukraine, after winning the coveted (!) Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, seem to have decided to have a little fun with the event this year. They’ve picked Verka Serdyuchka, a drag queen who pokes fun at Russian...

Sean’s Russia Blog is one of the older, hardier Russia blogs, having been running now for almost two and a half years. Initially, like most of us, Sean started out as a solo blogger, but over the past few months...

Well, the preliminary results are in from the Regional elections that took place across Russia last weekend. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that pro-Putin party United Russia came first in 13 of the 14...