Category Archives: News / Novosti

Tovarishch Trump?

Posted on November 18, 2016 by onion dome

What does the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States mean for US-Russian relations? As of November 2016, the best answer may be that it is too soon to tell. This is despite Deputy … Continue reading →

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Is Putin playing chess or checkers?

Posted on March 7, 2014 by onion dome

For the past 20 years, Ukraine has been a country in transition, emerging from the Soviet rubble with an unneeded nuclear arsenal, a linguistically heterogeneous population, a crumbling economy and a semi-authoritarian political system in place, party-boss plutocracy reimagined as … Continue reading →

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Power Broker

Posted on May 27, 2013 by onion dome

Source: New Times It is fitting to learn that, with allegations that “RC Fogle” attempted to recruit an FSB officer to spy on Russia, clandestine intrigue is alive and well in today’s Moscow. It is easy to picture the be-wigged … Continue reading →

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Делайте добро без корысти и оно обязательно вернется

Posted on May 4, 2013 by onion dome

Having gained notoriety for capturing graphic accidents and traffic rage, and most recently the meteorite in Chelyabinsk, the below video presents a different application of dashcams in Russia: paying it forward with random acts of kindness. The dashcam phenonmenon in … Continue reading →

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Dolphins and that

Posted on March 16, 2013 by onion dome

As usual, Karl Pilkington is completely right about everything: http://gawker.com/5990158/military-dolphins-with-frickin-guns-attached-to-their-heads-have-gone-missing-in-the-black-sea Ukraine’s navy has reportedly put out an APB for three dolphins that have gone missing in the Black Sea of the coast of Crimea. Oh, did I mention these are … Continue reading →

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‘All tucked in’

Posted on March 16, 2013 by onion dome

Full credit for this post goes to LP and SB: News that the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez (who was called an ‘outstanding leader and manager and a close friend of Russia’ by Vladimir Putin) will be embalmed and put … Continue reading →

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Meteor Hits Chelyabinsk

Posted on February 18, 2013 by onion dome

Leave it to social media to help us process the wild events in Chelyabinsk last week. In short, a meteor hit: I am still unsure if the meteor was debris from a passing asteroid. Regardless, this is more or less … Continue reading →

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No НОМО?

Posted on February 2, 2013 by onion dome

Last week the Duma passed an absurd law banning ‘homosexual propaganda’ and, specifically, the promotion of ‘homosexual behavior among minors,’ so Manezh was the site of some kerfuffles: Gay rights activists staged a ‘kiss-in’ to protest the bill, and multiple … Continue reading →

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Beloved

Posted on January 22, 2013 by onion dome

With tragic news striking two separate beloved Moscow institutions this month – namely the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director Sergei Filin, and the murder charges brought against Project O.G.I. co-founder Alexei Kabanov, let us seek comfort by combining … Continue reading →

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Food Packaging and Sex

Posted on October 17, 2012 by onion dome

Last week the Russian food packaging industry had multiple brushes with sexual politics. For one, the re-naming of Kraft to ‘Mondelez’ is raising eyebrows in Russia as the name apparently sounds like a Russian term for oral sex. (“манда-лиз”) I … Continue reading →

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