Status Updates From I Love Russia: Reporting fr...

"There are 155,878 adults currently living in PNIs (a psychoneurological internat) across Russia. And 21,000 children in specialized-care homes, doomed to end up in a PNI. Every 826th Russian citizen will live out their life in a PNI and die within its wall."

“It’s like a nonstop apocalypse around here.”

"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."