Playwright Anna Yablonskaya is among the dead at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport today. We heard it from her family. This photo of Anna was taken by my husband a few years ago – back when he wasn’t my husband. As you can see, Anna was very beautiful. She left behind her husband – and a littleContinue reading “Rest in peace, Anna”
Category Archives: Bad News
Khodorkovsky: “two wrongs don’t make a right”
I am too busy enjoying Kiev to really be in the mood to blog about the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, but I did want to say a couple of things I don’t believe that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is “the Russian Nelson Mandela.” I think this categorization is ridiculous. I like what a colleagueContinue reading “Khodorkovsky: “two wrongs don’t make a right””
Ironically enough, there’s rioting and I’m stuck at work
I say “ironically,” because just yesterday, I was blogging at The Moscow News about how quiet my neighbourhood tends to be when there is public unrest in Moscow. Now I’m reading about how even the mosque on Bolshaya Tatarskaya street, which is right by where I live, may be under threat. We’re being advised toContinue reading “Ironically enough, there’s rioting and I’m stuck at work”
Racist violence in the center of Moscow
It was actually happening within walking distance from where I live, but I wisely stayed at home yesterday. The neighbour called, cautiously asking me if I was going to brave the spectacle in my condition. That’s a negative. And anyway, it’s not as if we need to see it happening. The pattern, by now, hasContinue reading “Racist violence in the center of Moscow”
After being harassed to the point of it threatening my pregnancy this weekend
I need to thank the people who have taken care of me during this bizarre time. The conflict my family is embroiled in is a big one, and the other side doesn’t seem to have very many scruples (and as soon as I’m well enough, I’m going to the police station and giving a statementContinue reading “After being harassed to the point of it threatening my pregnancy this weekend”
Natalia A. 