As seasoned experts of Risk are well aware, now is the time of Autumn and Winter where we stay inside all warm and plot our strategies for the spring military campaign. Unless you're stupid and/or French.As you also know, I am certainly not short of plots, far from it. So many "countries", so little time. I hear Sevastopol is lovely in the ( Read more... )

Russian traitors, you can relax; this year my birthday present was:

Meet Putin's softer side...his pet tiger cub!"
Times UK

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"Vladimir Putin the macho hero saves journalists from a grisly death at the jaws of a Siberian tiger."

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Greetings from Beijing, where I have come to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony with the other Presidents. Oops! This is not of course my mistake. I am simply quoting some of the western media, who wrote:
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Oops, I did it again?Only joking. Will no one believe I had nothing to do with this? I'm just very lucky that those I don't like keep dropping dead. There's no conspiracy in it. I simply go to church every week with a selection of my devout KGB friends and then pray out loud that God will rid me of my enemies ( Read more... )

  I never like this time of year.  I’m not complaining about the ice, the frost, the cold, for I have always felt quite at home in this climate.  Although you may be surprised to know that I do have a very sunny personality.  I just like to keep it hidden behind layers and layers of dark totalitarian rain clouds to surprise people ( Read more... )

Did some cleaning around the dacha before Dominique came to stay a few weeks ago, and I think now is a good time to do some renovation on my journal. Both my profile page and icons have been updated ( Read more... )