For those of you still using multi-client IM programs like Adium, Pigdin and Trillium (!!!), here's a reminder that LJ Talk still exists and still works, so you can get your LJ notifications through your IM client rather than through email. I get both, but the immediacy of IM can't be beat. It's nice to shove off the notification emails to a less ( Read more... )

Is anyone else having a fair lot of Russians friending them? I've been getting a few every week for a while. Since I don't understand their journals, it puzzles me a little bit. If you are one of them (ovalezd, ygortw, lenbyoj, shaeorn, upomoejvs), I would be interested in knowing if there's something in particular that brings you to my journal!

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Russian journalist who died in fall reportedly probed weapons deals [CBC]

Upon his return from the trip, it said, Safronov told colleagues that he also had learned about Russian plans to provide Syria with Iskander missiles, MiG-29 fighter jets and Pantsyr-S1 air defence systems.

Washington-based Russian intelligence expert shot twice (but hasn't died!) in his driveway after pointing finger at Putin in Litvinenko case.

If you start messing with Russia, stop trusting everything you ingest:
Ex-KGB officer 'poisoned in UK'