Natalia Antonova

So I suppose I need to talk about this Susan Faludi “Electra” crap

I mean, just in case this whole Terminator 2 phase of my feminist blogging “career” is later described in children’s textbooks as merely “those months Antonova aired out her grievances regarding the writing of Camille Paglia – and posted funny pictures of cats”. Here’s a funny picture of a cat: Anyway, the points is, thisContinue reading “So I suppose I need to talk about this Susan Faludi “Electra” crap”

How many deaths will it take?

So, if you read the news coming out of this part of the world, you probably know that a horrible tragedy occurred in Marganets, Eastern Ukraine. I follow RIA Novosti on Twitter, and one of the first things I saw in my Twitter feed when I logged in yesterday was a link to a photoContinue reading “How many deaths will it take?”

Every once in a while, the people you love manifest themselves to you

Maybe it will be a girl who steps into the subway car on Zamoskvoretskaya line – still a good number of stops before you have to change onto the red line at Okhotny Ryad, so you have enough time to study her face. She’ll have Yaroslava’s dark-blonde hair, and her eyebrows will arch at similarContinue reading “Every once in a while, the people you love manifest themselves to you”

I’d like to say something completely unironic about Yury Luzhkov and Iosif Kobzon

I admire Kobzon’s loyalty to his friend – ousted mayor Yury Luzhkov. Leaving aside all aspects of Luzhkov’s political career – and all aspects of Kobzon’s political career as well – I have to say that such loyalty is very rare. It was rare in the Byzantine Empire, it’s rare in modern Moscow. Rats jumpContinue reading “I’d like to say something completely unironic about Yury Luzhkov and Iosif Kobzon”

From the deranged fan-mail bin: Russia is “the path of least resistance”? Um. Ok.

Hokay, so my new blogging policy generally involves Not Encouraging The Weirdos. I think it’s a good blogging policy. Certainly, it is sane. Some might even use the word “mature” in describing it. However, every once in a while, I get so irked by particular commentary sent my way (usually from some bizarre e-mail address,Continue reading “From the deranged fan-mail bin: Russia is “the path of least resistance”? Um. Ok.”