MONDAY AUGUST 3 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: Dobrokhotov, Defiant
(2) EDITORIAL: Russia is a Mafia State
(3) More Bloodshed in “Pacified” Chechnya
(4) A Call to Arms in Europe on Georgia
(5) Photo Essay: Remembering Estemirova
NOTE: At around 2 pm EST last Friday our counter rolled past the 1,000,000-visit milestone. This actualy represents 1.3 million total vists to our blog since our founding, 300,000 of them on our prior server over at Google. However, this is the first time our counter has shown more than one million visits, and as far as we know it’s the first time any Russian politics blog has ever displayed this many visits on a public counter.
NOTE: A major WTA tour event was held last week in Stanford, California. American Venus Williams met Russian opponents in both her quarterfinal and semifinal match. It got ugly.