Release Rodric

[moose_noise]

But Aron's book is a sane antidote for those Manichaeans who still see Russia not as a real country inhabited by real people trying to cope with dauntingly real problems, but as a kind of phantasmagoria haunted by murderous bandits and drink-sodden peasants dreaming of empire.
-- Sir Rodric Braithwaite

Comments

[lemonandlatte]

I have a memory of Yelstin I'll never forget. August 1991, getting up on a tank and banging on it with his shoe.

Cameron? Blair? Nah, they wouldn't. I like my politicians human.

[moose_noise]

I was thinking for a while back then that he was going to end up hanging from a meathook, but he came through in the end.

[mcgazz]

I fancy this myself.

[moose_noise]

Yes, looks interesting. Also, it's only 350 pages, as opposed to the daunting 900-odd of the Yeltsin book.

[lemonandlatte]

Could you text me? I transferred my SIM into a new phone and didn't know I had to do something to not lose all my numbers etc and so, have done.

Thanks!