Tag Archives: Latvia

Scorched earth

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

What better way to welcome the new year and break my blogging silence than with news of my favorite person in the world: ex-Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Luzhkov appears in the news again today, this time because he has applied … Continue reading →

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Tips for Robert Gibbs

Posted on September 30, 2009 by

Would that White House press conferences looked like this. Today, the press secretary for Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov lashed out a marginal opposition politician, Leonid Gozman, and called him a “trifling political farce.” He was reacting to a lawsuit filed … Continue reading →

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