I am kinda not buying this whole Russian "insurrection" spectacle. It is weird and things do not quite add up. I don't know what they were doing or trying to do but I don't feel like buying it at its face value. I feel something else is going on.

So Vladimir Putin decided to run for president of Russia again. What a shocker. The suspense was killing everyone. But it was worth it. Wow, what a surprise! Nobody expected this at all ( Read more... )

So Putin shared with Oliver Stone how lucky he feels that he is not a woman ( Read more... )

I watched the video (with English subtitles) that Alexei Navalny and his Russian Anti-Corruption Fund produced on their awesome investigation of the Russian prime minister's (and former president and Putin's closest ally) Dmitry Medvedev's corrupt schemes and vast fortune. I thought it was pretty cool, especially how they used the social media to ( Read more... )

Just when I thought that we had had most of our fun for the week until the inauguration with half of the US calling their president-elect illegitimate, the president in his turn advocating for the death of the EU and possibly NATO as we know it, Angela telling the Donald to make better cars and the rest of us in the world wondering what the actual ( Read more... )

I am putting off getting into the pissgate until more is known to avoid the first couple of waves of "news" that have no news in them which seem to inevitably appear on everything these days while both sides first of all are trying to use everything to "win" and smear the other side and not to actually find out the truth ( Read more... )

So I am back in London. Yeah, the New Year is way bigger in Moldova than Christmas when it comes to non-church stuff from what I have seen (and drank ( Read more... )

No, Hillary didn't lose because of Putin (also not because of 'fake news', racism, transphobia). She lost because she was a horrible candidate (which has never been news to DNC). A truly horrible candidate ( Read more... )

So if Brexit and now the results of the world's most important election were not enough to make Vladimir Putin ecstatic, the world's least important election (I talked about it here) has just ended with the pro-Russian candidate beating the pro-EU candidate solidly (by ten percent of the votes). Igor Dodon (I took a picture of him here) is the ( Read more... )