@ash@russia
Whoever wrote that post was probably the 20-something son of a high-ranking FSB agent who really wants to move up the ranks like dad, but doesn't have the bandwidth for all of that.
From "Sketches of Russian Women's History" (1871):
In Cossack stanitsas (villages) one can see naked men dancing in the street, surrounded by a crowd of women, girls and children. One Cossack woman drank herself to the skin: wishing to collect money for vodka, she burnt her membrum and went naked through the village to collect donations for the burnt place; everyone was delighted by this joke and the Cossack woman was not left without vodka.
Stumbled upon an old FB comment by philologist Kirill Ospovat. He wrote:
"Grandfather of mine was invited to Lubyanka [the KGB HQ] once to give lectures on Latin American literature. He did not dare to refuse, so he came and began lecturing. He started with biographies: "co-operated with the local communist party" and so on. A senior officer in the audience politely interrupted: "Lev Samoilovich, you can leave that out, this we already know".
@mediazona: In Voronezh, a blogger named Christolyub Bozhiy Vegan [transl. Christlover God's Vegan] was prosecuted for insulting the feelings of religious believers and rehabilitating Nazism.
@neural_meduza: In Voronezh, a blogger named Christolyub Bozhiy Vegan [transl. Christlover God's Vegan] was prosecuted for insulting the feelings of religious believers and rehabilitating Nazism.
As for my Aliyah, it is two weeks till the court ruling that'll allow me and my father to do a paternity test, I hope.
As for my upcoming poetry collection (which consists of two books of texts from 2004-2016), it is on the final layout steps.
Also, I collected first drafts for two more books in Russian, and a draft of my English poetry book (but for this one, I need to write some extra texts to conclude it).
For the next issue of the "Dvoetochie" ("The Colon") Russian Israeli literary magazine, I was asked to reflect on the topic of "Apocalypse". What it is, how it relates to our present, what role literature could play in the times of the end, and how our relations with literature and reading changes for after certain tragic and seminal points in time.
Unexpectedly for myself, I have just put an annual reminder on my calendar for 7 October. And after a brief moment of thought - for 1 and 3 September (2004 Beslan school hostage crisis) and 23 and 26 December (2002 Nord-Ost hostage crisis in Moscow).