This was a Soviet Afghan war song of the 1980s. "Do you, comrade, remember Afghanistan? Glows of fires, Muslim cries?" I am sure British soldiers have their own songs, it's just I don't know them. God bless them anyhow. What were the attitudes towards ...
The results of the "Name of Russia" poll – in which 50 million people voted by SMS, internet and telephone for who they thought to be the greatest Russian – have been announced. Ridiculous as these things sound, they do reflect the "state of the nation" ...
A Russophobia virus has infected the air. What is it? It is when an English literature teacher in a good school, explaining how to answer an exam question on comedy, tells your daughter: "Don't worry, simply write – I am Russian, I do not have a sense ...
Anna Matveeva: I never thought I would feel sorry for a yacht-owning billionaire oligarch, but I do ...
Anna Matveeva: Tomorrow's talks in Geneva will founder unless the west can find a way to move beyond its outdated 'unite and rule' ...
A decade ago a member of Abkhazia parliament told me that "the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia would not be resolved until Russia and the west divide their spheres of interests". We were sitting on the Black Sea coast and I thought that the guy ...
David Cameron has announced his intention to ban Russian citizens from a shopping assault on Selfridges. Oh, dear. Thank goodness my brother has gone, carrying his Austin Reed bags to Moscow. I wonder what comes next: a Conservative proposal to stop ...
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