Since I was mentioning Mr. Putin in a previous post, here’s where you can see photos of him in his youth. Next to photos from when they were young(er) of other past or present political leaders from all over the world, such as Tony Blair, George W.
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Russian politics: chess or judo?
This is an interesting weekend interview in the WSJ with Garry Kasparov, who is apparently taking very seriously his role as ‘moderator’ for the “Other Russia” coalition (moderator so far; as the editor notes, Kasparov does not necessarily exclude representing the “Other Russia” as its presidential candidate, with hopes of checkmating Putin).
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I can’t see yet how this arrangement will work in practice (probably it hasn’t been worked out in detail by the YouTube owners, either), but this announcement should certainly please the most creative video contributors to YouTube.
→ Read more Sundance Festival ’07: The Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking goes to Radu Jude’s “Lampa cu Caciula” (“The Tube with the Hat”)
See the full list of prizes for jury and audience awards, among which Radu Jude’s Romanian film “Lampa cu Caciula” (the Tube with the Hat). And see this (23 min long) film here – spoken in Romanian, with subtitles in English (you can watch all short films participating here).
→ Read more Between funny and sad
One has to look at this with the caveat that the subjects ‘interviewed’ in this clip are what one calls a ‘selected sample’ (there is really no subject who makes any sense), hence it is a matter of stretching the logic quite a lot to generalize anything to “Americans”, as a whole, from watching it.
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