One Night in Elista

[hulegu]

Umm, I'd like to link to the great article in the New Yorker about Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (as mentioned in an earlier blog entry), unfortunately the New Yorker has airs and graces and deigns not to make the entire issue available online, so I'll link to the next best thing: the press release.

"Michael Specter reports from Kalmykia, one of the

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[jibbsey]

just beautiful.

[ex_lovzfoot]

i was adding my school to the info and decided to look up for ur school cos i enjoyed staying in sherborne for two weeks only tho and found u and ur entry about elista and i almost got there a week ago i had to attend an all-russian contest got sick on the train was running a high temperature + a woman with a parrot was in one compartment with me and i began suspection bird flu i thought such a coincidence and wrote to you sorry for a disorganised stream of consciousness from lena with love

[ex_lovzfoot]

suspecting not suspction sorry

[hulegu]

Thanks for the comment. Sherborne, eh? it is a beautiful town - I appreciate it more when I visit than when I did as a pupil.