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News from the Eastern Blog: February 2010
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Saturday, 13 February 2010. Whistle While You Work (If You Dare). Artwork: 'Conversation' by Aleksandr Zhernokluev. Last November, Aleksei Dymovsky, a former Russian police officer from Novorossiik, publicly disclosed the widespread corruption that sits deep in the. Dymovsky’s bold but clumsy YouTube post. Has proven to be something of an inspiration. His arrest has led to a flourishing internet campaign. As well as provoking an internet following, Dymovsky’s arrest has attracted much international...
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News from the Eastern Blog: In Capital We Trust
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Monday, 8 February 2010. In Capital We Trust. Art Work: Maria Dmitryeva. Taken from a 10th grade (ages 15/16) Social Studies textbook, recommended by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Russian Federation. All on his own… a real superman! The elusive Russian soul? Quick parantheses: the various Russian attitudes to money are beautifully portrayed in ‘ Rublyovka – Road to Bliss. And its impact on development would be negative. These incidents are schizophrenic policy making at its very best!
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News from the Eastern Blog: Pipeline Prejudices
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010. As a British student studying European Integration at what the FT recently dubbed “ the Eurocrat College. 8221; I feel I spend a large part of my live defending “the baddie”: Britain.* As a non-Russophobe studying the EU as a Global Actor (would I go so far as to say Russophile? Probably not, since we’re talking politics), I spend the rest of my life defending the even badder baddie: Russia. We must abandon our Eurocentric view of the world and realise that it has been a long time ...
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News from the Eastern Blog: Cheating the System
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Thursday, 16 July 2009. How many, how much… and how? So the problem is widespread, yet with all this in mind let’s spare a thought for those who really do knuckle down to make the grade. Is it possible to get through the system with your conscience clear? Anything is possible, but even those with the best intentions in the world may end up getting out their wallets when faced with a “fail” from an exam official after sitting an exam they, and everyone else, knows they passed. Why does the geek peek?
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News from the Eastern Blog: Medvedev and his Mistrals
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Saturday, 6 March 2010. Medvedev and his Mistrals. This year is the year of Russia in France and France in Russia - an “année croisée”, marked by around 400 events in the political, economic and cultural spheres. As both a Russophile and a rosbif (won’t extend that to Francophile quite yet, sorry) studying on a Franco-Russian programme in Paris, Dmitri Medvedev’s 3-day official visit here this week should have been just my cup of tea. 8220;Operation Charm” was what Le Monde. 8221; (from Le Monde. But Med...
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News from the Eastern Blog: October 2009
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Monday, 12 October 2009. Good cop, bad cop: a sovereign tandemocracy. A Sunday afternoon in autumn pottering around at home. Or perhaps at the dacha. Time to relax, to reflect. What is on Dmitri Medvedev’s mind as he sits and sweats in the banya? Is he smugly chuckling at those stooopid political commentators who have been scrabbling over his every word this month after the publication of the article and a few other provocative hints let slip that he is making a move away from old Putin? 8221; When you p...
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News from the Eastern Blog: September 2009
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009. A Weekend Break for Two in Borovsk. OK, so for my first post after a rather long break this is not exactly pressing news, nor the height of journalism, but it will make my fellow bloggees smile. What happens when you book a cheap flight on Kaliningrad airlines and the day before you’re due to fly the company goes bust? Thanks to Johann for this! Friday, 18 September 2009. So Long, Georgia. What does this mean for Georgia? The departure is likely to bolster the already Wester...
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News from the Eastern Blog: Whistle While You Work (If You Dare)
http://newsfromtheeastern.blogspot.com/2010/02/whistle-while-you-work-if-you-dare.html
Saturday, 13 February 2010. Whistle While You Work (If You Dare). Artwork: 'Conversation' by Aleksandr Zhernokluev. Last November, Aleksei Dymovsky, a former Russian police officer from Novorossiik, publicly disclosed the widespread corruption that sits deep in the. Dymovsky’s bold but clumsy YouTube post. Has proven to be something of an inspiration. His arrest has led to a flourishing internet campaign. As well as provoking an internet following, Dymovsky’s arrest has attracted much international...
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News from the Eastern Blog: November 2009
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Saturday, 21 November 2009. Or Just a Piece of Pie? Much of the coverage of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s State of The Nation Address has been fairly negative. ‘We’ll believe it when we see it’ crowed the cynics. ‘Nice ideas, but what about specifics? In addition to these unremarkable government pledges and a overly intense fixation with broadband (has the Russian president discovered a love of downloading? Medvedev has promised to implement far-reaching reform by embracing free markets, stamping o...
