The Moscow Times’ Latynina Blows Her Wheels: Next Stop, Bellevue?
Uncle Volodya says,”You only know where the edge is after you’ve gone over it.” As newspapers go, The Moscow Times is heavy on the outrage and light on the research. It employs a stable of colourful...
View ArticleDear Russia: Please Stop Fighting Poverty, We Liked You Better When You Were...
Uncle Volodya says,”At the funeral, they all said, ‘What a shame; he died penniless’. I don’t know – to me, that sounds like perfect timing on a hell of a budget. “ In an unprecedented (for this blog)...
View ArticleThe Songs of Every Man
Uncle Volodya says,”Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being” From a distance we all have enough, And...
View ArticleThe Game is Afoot: Follow Your Spirit, and Upon This Charge, Cry “God for...
Uncle Volodya says,”There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” Probably everyone is...
View ArticleEdward Lucas: Stories From Myanus
Uncle Volodya says,”Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool, she means it.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Spanish author of “Shadow of the Wind“, wrote, “A story is a letter that the author writes...
View ArticleThe Astounding Stupidity of Optimism
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” “If you...
View ArticleThe Voice Of I’m Better Than You
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.” A lot of people on both sides of the debate say that anti-Americanism is on the rise in Russia. Although the cause of...
View ArticleWarning: Explicit Same-Sex Content. Fifteen and Under Welcome.
“What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope. It is not a reflection of all religious people.” The recent hysteria...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Your Lunch
Uncle Volodya says, “Chavez drank too much. When he gave blood last time, there was an olive in it.”I have been persuaded, because the large number of comments on the last post is causing the post to...
View ArticleNeighbouring Giants Edge Closer
Uncle Volodya says, “The European Union encourages contributions from the rich and votes from the poor under the pretense that it is protecting them from each other.”The world is closing in; did you...
View ArticleThe Iron Lady and the Young Reformer
Uncle Volodya says, “The way Boris Nemtsov believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic times when so many believe in no God at all.”The last post is getting too comment-heavy for easy...
View ArticleUnder New Management – A Progress Report on Ivanishvili’s Georgia
Uncle Volodya says, “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. but if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready. The show goes on...
View ArticleStubborn Deniers of Reality, Thy Name is Western Journalism
Uncle Volodya says, “Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough, it will be true.”Editor’s Note: I originally wrote this post for Voice Of...
View ArticleGAZPROM is Not Dead, and Anders Aslund is Officially as Thick as a Wharf Piling
Uncle Volodya says, “Police chasing Anders Aslund on his bike lost him when he abruptly dismounted, ran into a field of cabbages and removed his helmet.”Everybody’s favourite Psycho-Pswede is jiggling...
View ArticleI’m Sorry; We Don’t Accept U.S. Dollars – Have You Any Rupelyuans?
Uncle Volodya says, “I lent a friend of mine $10,000.00 for plastic surgery, and now I don’t know what he looks like.”For the love of money People will lie; Lord, they will cheat For the love of money...
View ArticleSomewhere Over The Rainbow: The West Calls The Gay To Arms Against Russia
Uncle Volodya says, “Human beings, who are almost unique in their ability to learn from experience, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”Somewhere over the rainbow nonsense...
View ArticleThe Sucking Sound of Receding Credibility: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Drops the Ball
Uncle Volodya says, “An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of research.”This is another first for us here at The Kremlin Stooge; two posts back-to-back on the gay issue. Normally I steer well clear of...
View ArticleRussia’s Brutal Crackdown on The Little People – Putin Stole My Self-Respect,...
Uncle Volodya says, “So, if a psychic midget escaped from jail and was being hunted by the police, would she be a small medium at large? Ha, ha; I love that one.”Ruslan Karlikov and his fellow Moscow...
View ArticleIf You Liked It, Then You Shoulda Put a Ring On It – The Russia/Ukraine/EU...
Uncle Volodya says, “The love letter you finally got the courage to send will be delayed in the post long enough for you to make a fool of yourself in person. “I need no permission, did I mention Don’t...
View ArticleChechnya – What’s To Be Done?
Uncle Volodya says, “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its...
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