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Russia Blog Roundup - 29 April

Posted on May 04, 2009 by Official Russia

After your sage advice from last week I’ve decided that, rather than post a weekly news update (which, lets face it, you can get anywhere) I thought I’d re-start my weekly roundup of great posts from around the Russia blogs.

So, drumroll please…

The best posts from the last week or so are (in no particular order):

Twitter Terror: Unravelling the Unrest in Moldova. In depth analysis of the recent protests by Anatoly at Sublime Oblivion. So good it got picked up by JRL and others.
Buster from Moscow Through Brown Eyes has moved. His new blog is Rote: Review of Things Encountered.
Tim Newman explains economics - apparently it doesn’t depend on the Politburo setting arbitrary prices any more. (Tim, by the way, has just found a new job that will keep him in Sakhalin for another year.)
Kendrick White of Marchmont News has republished ‘Barriers and Bureaucracy: Must it be like this?’ over at Russia Blog. It’s nice to see an up and coming news publisher reaching out to blogs like this.
Ever since the news broke that Medvedev had fired the GRU boss, I’ve been thinking about doing a post pointing out the similarities between the GRU and Batman symbols. Annoyingly, Kyle beat me to it!
By the way - Kyle and Svet have a great recipe for Russian Solyanka Soup that I plan to try out this weekend.
Continuing the food theme, Vadim Nitkin reports on the Georgian opposition’s latest tactic - protest outside restaurants where Mikhail Saakashvili is eating, so the poor man never gets to eat his dinner in peace.
Josefina profiles Иван Алексеевич Бунин [Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin], the forgotten Soviet Nobel Prize winner.
In a shameless plug, my best post of the week was my guide to how you can use Twitter to connect with other people interested in Russia. By the way - you can connect with me @siberianlight.