WEDNESDAY MAY 20 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: Putin’s Sochi Charade
(2) EDITORIAL: The Horror of Eurovision
(3) OP-ED: Kaliningrad’s Mayor is Rewriting City’s History
(4) Latynina on the Attempted Coup in Georgia
(6) A Publisher at Large: Kim vs. Harvard
NOTE: We are pleased to publish an op-ed article today from reader Paul Cordy regarding Kaliningrad. We encourage readers to submit op-ed pieces for publication consideration (we are happy to provide editorial and translation services as needed).
NOTE: Last week was the best for traffic in our history. We were visited 23,466 times, a new record! Perhaps as a result, another record fell, namely most comments on a single post. We never thought the record, well in excess of 300, previously held by our post “Why is LR a Russophobe? Why aren’t YOU?” would fall, but last week it did when our editorial “Putin’s Abkhazia Quagmire” edged past it. Our comments, we are proud to say, have become their own rich source of information about Russia, and the comments are now independently searchable because of recent WordPress system improvements.