the nyts tries to rehabilitate bloody gina haspel

In the 1930s, the Times’ man in Moscow, Walter Duranty, completely missed the Kremlin’s forced famine in the Ukraine that led to the death of six to seven million Ukrainians and Russians.  Joseph Stalin’s KGB found Duranty to be a “useful idiot” in accepting Moscow’s..

mass arrests in moscow in run-up to election

On the one hand Kremlin would have to praise the hardliners for their services, while at the time gently removing them from the steering wheel at Moscow's city council.. ... The events surrounding Moscow council election have shown that the form of governance based on imitating..

angry bear

This is June 1 and was declared Moscow in 1950.  It's also celebrated, mostly in former or socialist or communist nations, and is big Russia in particular even now, national holiday.  ..

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