Status Updates From Mit elskede land

"Anna Politkovskaya flew to Beslan as soon as the terrorists took the school. She’d had a lot of experience working in Chechnya and wanted to try organizing negotiations with the terrorists. On the plane, she lost consciousness. She had been poisoned."

Taking a break but WILL be back.

"The punchline was that Moscow’s luxuries were paid for by money that came from the provinces. That was the first thing that Putin did: he reformed the tax system so that the provinces had to pay Moscow first and then Moscow decided how much to give back to them. It gave back as little as possible."