The Russian blame-it game is stepped up a notch…

Another good day for Putin as turmoil grips US and UK – CNNPolitics (CNN) The news just keeps on getting better for Vladimir Putin. On either side of the Atlantic, the United States and Britain, the two great English-speaking democracies that orchestrated Moscow’s defeat in the Cold War, are undergoing simultaneous political breakdowns. And the […]

A Jewel in Two Crowns: Crimea

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine… In 1954 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, signed Crimea over to Ukraine as a gesture of goodwill. Galina was 14 at the time. “Illegal,” she said, when asked about the hand­over. “There was no referendum. […]

Gillette! Yes anti-Gillette in Russia also…

I can simply say: “Gillette I will never buy your products again. Proctor and Gamble? I will start phasing out all your products.” Easy for me here in Russia! 😉 Аудитория по всему миру восприняла новый ролик крайне негативно, обвиняя бренд в мужененавистничестве Бренд Gillette, принадлежащий международной компании Procter & Gamble, выпустил рекламный ролик против […]