BBC: we don’t care who wins, only who’s third

Saint Alexander Nevsky won the “Name of Russia” contest yesterday. As Sergei Mironov, President of the Council of the Federation, Russia’s upper chamber, and head of the Fair Russia Party put it, it is indicative that, out of the twelve candidates presented, Russians chose the only saint.  That is a great achievement for modern Russia.
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Linux on your iPod

OK, so I got bored editing STATA output for my paper and decided to spend 2 hours of my life installing Linux on my iPod.
Turns out that, despite what the project claims, the installation was a pain in the wazoo. The installer does not run under 64-bit AMD – crashes with a seg fault. In [...]

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The State of NATO – Russia Relations

In a recent article, The Economist lamented that Russia followed the West’s mistakes and not its way of life, “mistakes” referring to the West’s unilateral recognition of Kosovo. Yet Russia’s brief, victorious war in the Caucusus and the subsequent unilateral recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have shown a much more measured foreign policy, with [...]

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