I read it first in ITAR-TASS, where is seemed almost charming:
Shoes Thrown At Member Of Ukraine-NATO Committee In Odessa
ODESSA, December 19 (Itar-Tass) — A ceremony of the opening of the Euroatlantic Cooperation Centre on the basis of the South Ukrainian Pedagogical University ended with a scandal on Friday. A young journalist threw shoes at Oleg [...]
“Devilish Forces,” my essay/review based on Steve LeVine’s Putin’s Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia, has just hit the website of the Virginia Quarterly Review. It will also be in the Winter 2009 print issue, due out any day now.
An excerpt:
In early October 2007, almost three years to the day [...]
Siberian girl who asked Putin for dress to see New Year in Moscow
IRKUTSK, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - The nine-year-old Siberian girl invited to meet the New Year in Moscow by the Russian prime minister has been bought a ticket to the capital by local authorities after a row over her trip was resolved.
Dasha Varfolomyeevaya [...]