Enlish Russia, WW2 Like Reconstruction: “A few days ago an anniversary for the blockade of St. Petersburg city during the World War 2. For more than two years the city was in the tight circle of German troops. The front line was already in the suburbs and the downtown was bombed constantly. People suffered from [...]
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Anniversary Blockade of St. Petersburg
January 29th, 2008
Tags: russia · st. petersburg · ussr · war · wo2
Wind Dam
November 7th, 2007
Building Design, Chetwood Associates’ sail-like ‘wind dam’ lands on Lake Lagoda: “The dam, which would be located over a gorge at Lake Lagoda in north-west Russia, includes a cup-shaped spinnaker sail, believed to be the first of its kind, which will generate renewable energy by funnelling the wind through an attached turbine. The spinnaker shape [...]
Estonian DDoS – a final analysis
June 2nd, 2007
Heise Security: “(…) so, we see signs of Russian nationalism at work here, but no Russian government connection.”
Russia in photos: 1941-1945
May 14th, 2007
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Tags: photography · russia · wo2
The Story of Sergey Brin
February 15th, 2007
Moment Magazine: “The Brins were no different from their fellow immigrants in that being Jewish was an ethnic, not a religious experience.”
Tags: google · jewish heritage · russia · sergey brin
Anna Akhmatova. Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale.
February 6th, 2007
Clive James: “Akhmatova was the embodiment of the Russian liberal heritage that the authoritarians felt bound to go on threatening long after it had surrendered. As such, she was an inspiring symbol, but when a poet becomes better known than her poems, it usually means that she is being sacrificed, for extraneous reasons, on the [...]
Tags: anna akhmatova · cultural amnesia · literature · poetry · russia
Gazprom aast overal in Europa op telecomnetten
February 1st, 2007
Trouw: “Het Russische concern Sistema wordt met steun van president Poetin vermoedelijk aandeelhouder in Telecom Italia en zo indirect uitbater van glasvezelnetten in Nederland.” Zie ook: “KPN laat Gazprom zijn Duitse glasnet verhuren.”
Tags: bbned · fiber · gazprom · germany · kpn · nl · poetin · russia · telecom italia
Murmansk Military Objects
January 6th, 2007
English Russia: Russische militaire objecten in de omgeving van Murmansk op Google Earth. Duikboten, raketsilo’s en veel verlaten spul.
Tags: google earth · military · russia