From the profile of Putin’s protégé (if that’s what we’re calling it), Dmitry A. Medvedev, in this morning’s New York Times:
Short, boyish with a tuft of brown hair and sometimes described as socially awkward, Mr. Medvedev is also praised for a sharp and lawyerly intellect.
Awww … tuft! Don’t you just want to tousle him?
He’s […]
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Rough Beast
Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 11th, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Moscow Is Burning: Russian Homophobes Attack Gay Pride Demonstrators
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 28th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Yesterday Russian homophobes made good on their threat to physically attack gay pride demonstrators in Moscow this year, as they did last year. The haters, who included contingents of nationalists and Russian Orthodox extremists, punched and kicked gay participants, and some wore surgeon’s masks, which they claimed was an attempt to protect them from the […]
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