Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Is it time?
Time for what?Is it time?
I heard that too. Also off topic. But it occurred to me (perhaps not for the first time) that if one had Adam Curtis round for dinner, or spent an evening in the pub with him. It must be strange. Because whenever he offered an opinion it would seem like you were watching one of his documentaries. I mean this in a positive way because I enjoy his work. But if he were saying "It seems that the local traffic wardens were being too keen" or somesuch mundane conversation it would be hilarious because then one would expect footage of them applying tickets.Bit off topic, but good program on Radio 4 this morning that's well worth a listen imo.
"Adam Rutherford asks what ordinary life was like in the Soviet Union and how far its collapse helps to explain Russia today. Karl Schlögel is one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union. In his latest book, The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World (translated by Rodney Livingstone), he recreates an encyclopaedic and richly detailed history of daily life, both big and small. He examines the planned economy, the railway system and the steel city of Magnitogorsk as well as cookbooks, parades and the ubiquitous perfume Red Moscow. The historian Katja Hoyer presents a more nuanced picture of life in East Germany, far from the caricature often painted in the West. In Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 she acknowledges the oppression and hardship often faced by ordinary people, but argues that this now-vanished society was also home to its own distinctive and rich social and cultural landscape. But what did it feel like to live through the fall of communism and then democracy? These are the questions Adam Curtis looked to reveal in his 7-part television series, Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone (available on BBC iPlayer). The archive footage from thousands of hours of tapes filmed by BBC crews across the country records the lives of Russians at every level of society as their world collapsed around them."
I heard that too. Also off topic. But it occurred to me (perhaps not for the first time) that if one had Adam Curtis round for dinner, or spent an evening in the pub with him. It must be strange. Because whenever he offered an opinion it would seem like you were watching one of his documentaries. I mean this in a positive way because I enjoy his work. But if he were saying "It seems that the local traffic wardens were being too keen" or somesuch mundane conversation it would be hilarious because then one would expect footage of them applying tickets.
Oh dear, etc.2nd derailment [due to track getting blown up] in two days in Bryansk ...
Second goods train derailed in Russian Bryansk border region
The governor of Bryansk says the derailment, the second in two days, was caused by an explosive device.www.bbc.co.uk
Fair few Russians sold property there recentlyFollowing yesterday's attack on the oil depot in Sevastopol which resulted in this...
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Some people thought that Crimea may not be a good place to live any more...
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Oh dear, etc.
Are we starting to see some indigenous Russian pushback here?
Same here, it's very good. Strange thing is that I read the sub-titled commentary in Adam Curtis' voice in my mind.Trauma Zone is currently on iPlayer, just FYI. Coincidentally, I started watching it a couple of nights ago.
Well that's a turn up for the books.
Small chance of it being Russian partisans, slightly higher chance of it being a state stunt to build support for the war or justify their actions in Ukraine under the ‘Russia is under attack’ banner.So who is behind the attack as Ukraine has it not them?
Cracks in Brics?
China votes for UN resolution with reference to Russia's 'aggression'
The resolution is not centred on the Ukraine war and instead calls for greater cooperation between the UN and the Council of Europe. #EuropeNewswww.euronews.com
I'm sure Vlad will clear this all up at the next Brics summit in South Africa...
Oh wait... South Africa Warns Putin Could Face Arrest While Attending BRICS Summit - The Moscow Times
Go on Putin turn up you know you want tooI'm sure Vlad will clear this all up at the next Brics summit in South Africa...
Oh wait... South Africa Warns Putin Could Face Arrest While Attending BRICS Summit - The Moscow Times
Why did they warn him?
So who is behind the attack as Ukraine has it not them?
Haven't Ukraine broken with their traditional dates as part of their de Russification of everything? If so their Summer offensive could attack Russia in their SpringSo the spring offensive looks to have moved up a notch to a summer assault on mother Russia itself.
Lolololol. Despair
Well that's a turn up for the books.