#Oleg Kashin

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Ever wonder what life is like in contemporary Russia? Journalist Oleg Kashin offers a strange, surreal glimpse in his novel Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life under Putin—now available from Restless Books. Reminiscent of the works of Mikhail Bulgakov, the novel centers around a young scientist who invents a growth serum that leads to farsical and tragic consequences. On a more serious note, two months after delivering the manuscript to his publisher, Mr. Kashin was severely beaten in an attack with ties to the highest levels of government; fortunately, he recovered and now resides in Switzerland.

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By BY OLEG KASHIN from Opinion in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/navalny-putin-russia.html?partner=IFTTT Brave, proud and unbroken, he is standing up to an inhumane system. Aleksei Navalny Is Russia’s True Leader New York Times

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Fardwor, Russia by Oleg Kashin

https://www.amazon.com/Fardwor-Russia-Fantastical-Under-Putin/dp/1632060396

Russia is often portrayed as a bleak and miserable authoritarian land. This book, Fardwor, Russia by Oleg Kashin, does little to disspell this myth. Although a very short book (I read it in one sitting, something that never happens to me), Fardword, Russia is a dramatic look at Putin’s Russia that will leave you shocked and astonished at the current state of Russia and how good and dark this little book is.

The title is taken from a misspelling that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did during his settling up of a Twitter account. This book is meant to be a exaggeration of the current state of Russia under Putin but with a Sci-Fi twist on it. It isn’t really Sci-Fi like 2001, Dune, or War of the Worlds. Think something like 1984 or something closer to a dystopian world of Hunger Games but in current times. If you have read Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford, it is closer to that kind of writing but with a bit of a Sci-Fi flavor at the end.

The book is about a scientist, Karpov, and his wife, Marina, moving into the south of Russia away from their Moscow home for his express purpose to work on a hobby. This area, the former childhood home of Karpov, is a place of former Soviet glory that the couple is staying at. Karpov ends up successfully making a formula that can rapidly expand the size of it’s subjects. He tries it on farm animals and then decides to do it on a circus midget. I don’t want to spoil the book, but let’s just say that the combination of a science university, secret millionaires, oligarchs, and experiments go rapidly out of control. The ending gets quite fast paced and super dark. I had to literally reread sentences and phrases not only to understand what was going on plot wise but to see if what I just read really did just happen.

This book is just amazing. The author Oleg Kashin is a Russian dissident who has survived assassination attempts and has written a masterpiece with this, his first fictional work. The essay in the beginning, written by a Buzzfeed writer (guess the news section of the website takes it self seriously), explains in good detail the context of the novel and some of the meanings and jokes that a non Russian speaker will miss. It is a very good introduction to the book and it does not spoil any of the plot beyond what I have written above.

This is a must read, especially at how short it is. Weeks later, I am still thinking about this book and how eerily it is. With Russia interfering in U.S. internal affairs today, why not read this book.

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JRL NEWSWATCH: "Who Will Get Rid of Putin? The Answer Is Grim" - New York Times/ Oleg Kashin

JRL NEWSWATCH: “Who Will Get Rid of Putin? The Answer Is Grim” – New York Times/ Oleg Kashin

“What’s easier to imagine — Vladimir Putin suddenly declaring an end to the war on Ukraine and withdrawing his troops or a Russia without Mr. Putin that revises his policies, ends the war and begins to build relations with Ukraine and the West on a peaceful new foundation? It’s a hard one to answer. The war in Ukraine is, to a significant degree, the result of Mr. Putin’s personal obsession, and…

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By BY OLEG KASHIN from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2S6qW61

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Author: BY OLEG KASHIN - Publish Date: April 27, 2021 at 12:00PM

Brave, proud and unbroken, he is standing up to an inhumane system.

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"Aleksei Navalny Is Russia’s True Leader" by BY OLEG KASHIN via NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2S6qW61

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Why Would Vladimir Putin Want to Get Rid of Aleksei Navalny Now?

By BY OLEG KASHIN The unchanging leader of the regime is Mr. Putin; the unchanging leader of the opposition is Mr. Navalny. But everything changes. Published: August 21, 2020 at 04:17AM from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3j0Xarn via Funny Dog Video 2020

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Why Would Vladimir Putin Want to Get Rid of Aleksei Navalny Now?

By BY OLEG KASHIN The unchanging leader of the regime is Mr. Putin; the unchanging leader of the opposition is Mr. Navalny. But everything changes. Published: August 21, 2020 at 12:17PM from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3j0Xarn via

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La Russie est une fausse dictature

Ces derniers mois, la Russie a adopté une multitude de réglementations - sur la liberté de réunion, la liberté d'expression, Internet, les organisations non gouvernementales, les homosexuels et les adoptions étrangères - qui la placeraient parmi les plus répressives et arriérées nations sur Terre. Une seule différence: jusqu'à présent, personne ne prend la peine d'appliquer la plupart des nouvelles règles. Depuis que les Russes sont descendus en masse dans les rues pour protester contre les élections législatives truquées de décembre 2011, les législateurs du pays ont travaillé pour régler les comptes. De nouvelles lois fixent de lourdes amendes pour les rassemblements non autorisés, créent une procédure pour fermer les sites Web à contenu extrémiste et menacent les journalistes de peines de prison pour calomnie. Les organisations non gouvernementales, dont certaines étaient actives dans la documentation des irrégularités de vote, doivent s'inscrire auprès du ministère de la Justice en tant qu'agents étrangers »et mentionner ce statut humiliant dans tous leurs documents. Lorsque le président Vladimir Poutine a signé les lois l'été dernier, on aurait pu s'attendre à ce qu'il fasse de la Russie l'équivalent politique de la Chine, ou pire. En l'occurrence, l'application a été décidément inégale. Il y a eu quelques accusations de diffamation contre des journalistes d'investigation, dont un dans la région de l'Oural qui a accusé un juge local de corruption, mais jusqu'à présent, personne n'a été condamné ou emprisonné. De même, personne n'a été giflé d'une amende maximale de 300 000 roubles (10 000 $) pour avoir organisé un rassemblement non autorisé ou y avoir participé, même si des milliers de personnes ont participé à de tels rassemblements, dont un près du Kremlin le 15 décembre. des amendes de 20 000 à 30 000 roubles ont été infligées, de tels cas sont rares. Aucun site Web populaire n'a été fermé pour extrémisme. »Quelques sites ont été contraints de supprimer des pages traitant de drogues illicites. Quant à la loi sur les agents étrangers, le 16 janvier, le ministre de la Justice, Alexander Konovalov, a effectivement déclaré au Parlement qu'il n'avait pas l'intention d'appliquer la législation. Selon le journal, il a déclaré que son ministère ne compilerait pas de liste d'agents étrangers. Au lieu de cela, il attendrait que les services répressifs proposent des candidats. Nous ne sommes pas en mesure de contrôler les organisations pour le financement étranger », a déclaré Konovalov. Curieusement, le manque d'application n'a eu aucun effet sur la ferveur législative du Parlement. Des exemples récents incluent un projet de loi (que le gouvernement a demandé à rejeter) fixant de fortes amendes pour l'utilisation d'un langage offensant dans les médias, une interdiction libellée de manière vague de la propagande de l'homosexualité chez les mineurs »(provisoirement approuvée), et un projet de loi en suspens prévoyant une sanction pour offenser les sentiments religieux. " Le projet de loi anti-jurons a laissé les experts des médias perplexes. Nous savons qu'il est mauvais de maudire dans les lieux publics et dans les médias, des sanctions et des amendes existent déjà pour cela », a déclaré le journaliste de télévision respecté Nikolai Svanidze à l'agence de presse RIA Novosti. La législation anti-gay a suscité l'indignation des médias libéraux et des blogs, et a même déclenché une lutte entre militants homosexuels et fanatiques religieux devant le Parlement. Pourtant, l'expérience de Saint-Pétersbourg, où une loi similaire est en vigueur depuis mars, suggère qu'elle n'aura que peu d'impact. Une seule personne a été touchée: le militant des droits des homosexuels Nikolai Alexeyev a été condamné à une amende de 5 000 roubles (167 $) pour avoir fait du piquetage devant la mairie avec une affiche disant que l'homosexualité n'est pas une perversion. Le hockey sur gazon et le ballet sur glace le sont. »Son cas est en cours de traitement à la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme à Strasbourg. Certes, la loi récemment adoptée interdisant les adoptions étrangères - représailles contre une loi américaine imposant des sanctions aux fonctionnaires russes corrompus - est susceptible d'être strictement appliquée. Poutine a activement défendu la mesure, parlant à plusieurs reprises avec passion des torts causés aux enfants russes aux États-Unis. Pour la plupart, cependant, le Parlement a réussi à dépeindre la Russie comme un pays où les libertés civiles sont impitoyablement réprimées - sans avoir beaucoup d'effet réel. Tous ses meilleurs efforts pour mener une campagne d'intimidation sont systématiquement moqués et ignorés par ceux au pouvoir. L'expérience des huit ou neuf derniers mois nous a appris que la Douma ne fait que travailler pour elle-même », a déclaré le journaliste Yuri Saprykin, une figure éminente des manifestations de l'hiver dernier. Pour faire appliquer les lois telles qu'elles sont écrites, organisateur de séminaire vous devez intégrer la moitié du pays dans les forces de police et les rendre malades de l'autre. » Le chroniqueur Oleg Kashin a noté une différence dans certaines des lois les plus récentes: elles visent des groupes qui ne sont pas particulièrement dangereux pour le pouvoir de Poutine. En tant que tels, ils pourraient à l'avenir s'avérer utiles au Kremlin, si jamais il voulait entreprendre une libéralisation symbolique. La liste des réformes qui pourraient être annoncées immédiatement serait beaucoup plus impressionnante », écrit Kashin dans One pourrait réduire les amendes pour participation à des rassemblements, abolir la notion d '« agent étranger », décriminaliser la calomnie, etc., jusqu'à autoriser Les citoyens américains adopteront des orphelins russes. » Même si l'hypothèse de Kashin s'avère fausse, une chose est sûre: le Parlement a utilisé son année au pouvoir pour transformer la Russie d'une prétendue démocratie en une dictature tout aussi fausse.

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Books That I’ve Read

Here is all the new movies that I consumed in the year of 2020. I only put here the new items that I previously never have experienced before. Listed in the order that I saw them in. Lets hope that 2021’s list is greater.

Books

The Return of George Washington 1783-1789 by Edward J. Larson REVIEW

For Fear of An Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789 by Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon REVIEW

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss REVIEW

Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada by Jerome E. Edwards REVIEW

Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger REVIEW

Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler REVIEW

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey REVIEW

Fardwor, Russia by Oleg Kashin REVIEW

Doctor Deal by Mark Bowden REVIEW

The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories Volume 1, 1929-1961 edited by Van C. Gessel REVIEW

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and History (In That Order) by  Bridget Quinn REVIEW

The Girls of Nevada by Gabriel R. Vogliotti REVIEW

On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation REVIEW

Mussolini by Jasper Ridley REVIEW

George Washington by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn REVIEW

Elvis, Marilyn, and the Space Aliens: Icons on Screen in Nevada by Robin Holabird

Myths and Mysteries of California: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained by Ray Jones

Tales To Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: Ten Spooky Stories by R.L. Stine REVIEW

More Tales to Give You Goosebumps by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 Fright Camp by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 The Werewolf in the Living Room by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 Ghost in the Mirror by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 Full Moon Fever by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps 2000 Earth Geeks Must Go! by R.L. Stine REVIEW

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History by  Craig L. Symonds REVIEW

The Bees by Laline Paull REVIEW

Serve the People! by Yan Lianke REVIEW

True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx by Sam Quinones REVIEW

Harold Shipman: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Serial Killer by Ryan Green REVIEW

The Texas Tower Sniper: The Terrifying True Story of Charles Whitman by Ryan Green REVIEW

Colombian Killers: The True Stories of the Three Most Prolific Serial Killers on Earth by Ryan Green REVIEW

The Year of Living Danish by Helen Russell REVIEW

EROTICA: Nudist Family: 15 Short Stories by Ginger Sinclair REVIEW

My Sister the Nudist by Martin Brant REVIEW

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Russian reporter Borodin dead after mystery fall

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Image captionMaxim Borodin had contacted a friend the day before he was found seriously injured beneath his fifth-floor flat

A Russian investigative journalist who wrote about the deaths of mercenaries in Syria has died in hospital after falling from his fifth-floor flat.

Maxim Borodin was found badly injured by neighbours in Yekaterinburg and taken to hospital, where he later died.

Local officials said no suicide note was found but the incident was unlikely to be of a criminal nature.

However, a friend revealed Borodin had said his flat had been surrounded by security men a day earlier.

Vyacheslav Bashkov described Borodin as a “principled, honest journalist” and said Borodin had contacted him at five o’clock in the morning on 11 April saying there was “someone with a weapon on his balcony and people in camouflage and masks on the staircase landing”.

Borodin had been looking for a lawyer, he explained, although he later called him back saying he was wrong and that the security men had been taking part in some sort of exercise.

After he was found badly injured at the foot of the building on Thursday, regional authorities said the door of his flat had been locked from the inside, indicating that no-one else had either entered or left the flat.

The chief editor of Novy Den, where Borodin worked, said before he died that she could not rule out a crime, adding there was no reason for him to kill himself.

Harlem Désir of the international monitoring organisation OSCE said the death was “of serious concern” and called for a thorough investigation.

What did Borodin write?

In recent weeks, the journalist had written about Russian mercenaries known as the “Wagner Group” who were reportedly killed in Syria on 7 February in a confrontation with US forces.

Last week, the outgoing head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, said that “a couple hundred” Russian mercenaries died in the clash in Deir al-Zour province. The mercenaries were apparently taking part in an attack by pro-Syrian government fighters on the headquarters of a US ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces

Last month, Borodin had written that three of those killed had come from the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, in which Yekaterinburg is the main city. Two of the men were from the towns of Asbest and one from Kedrovoye, he said.

He had also investigated political scandals, including allegations made by a Belarusian escort known as Nastya Rybka in a video posted by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Journalism is a dangerous business in Russia

Journalists in Russia have often been harassed or attacked in recent years for their work. On the same day that Maxim Borodin was found fatally injured, the editor of an official regional newspaper was assaulted in Yekaterinburg, reports say.

Much of Russia’s media is controlled by the state and Russia is ranked 83rd out of 100 countries for press freedom by Freedom House.

One of Russia’s best-known investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya, was shot dead in a lift at her block of flats in 2006. Politkovskaya exposed Russian human rights abuses in Chechnya.

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Image captionAnna Politkovskaya’s reports were highly critical of President Vladimir Putin

Two years later, journalist Mikhail Beketov was left brain-damaged. He had highlighted corruption and fought against the planned destruction of the Khimki forest near Moscow to make way for a road. He died in 2013.

Oleg Kashin, was severely injured in an assault in Moscow in 2010. He had been reporting on protests against the Khimki forest highway.

Last year, well-known Russian radio presenter Tatyana Felgengauer was stabbed in the neck while at work at her radio station, Ekho Mosvky.

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Russia’s Dog Experiment With Breathing Technology Angers Animal Rights Community

A video of this deputy prime minister of Russia displaying breathing technologies on a dog has drawn criticism from animal rights supporters who say that it had been cruel mistreatment.

The Russian officer, Dmitry Rogozin, was showing off the results of some current Russian study that enables an organism to breath an abysmal liquid as opposed to air. The demonstration was for president Aleksandar Vucic.

In the clip, first broadcast a St Petersburg television news segment on Thursday, subsequently published on an Russian news website, a researcher submerges a dachshund called Nikolas into a container filled with the oxygen-rich liquid, a dark colored substance in a clear container. The scientist holds the dog under the surface, and the dog could be observed squirming and trying to find free. The dog is submerged headfirst, and stays this way, wriggling, for seveal seconds before becoming able to breathe.

Animal rights activists and critics on interpersonal websites aren’t happy.

Anton Tonshin, head of the Advanced Research Foundation liquid breathing lab, holds a dachshund Named Nicholas that took part in liquid breathing experimentation. Mikhail TereshchenkoTASS via Getty Images

“A Russian deputy PM with coworkers will be mistreating the poor dog. Mistreating individuals is not enough for these, they aren’t letting dogs reside,” read one tweet from a popular Russian site.

The demonstration was broadcast one day before Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law meant to raise punishment for animal abuse.  

The general public outcry, which included a Facebook post from a prominent Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, forecasting Rogozin’s actions “fascism,” led officials to perform damage control in reaction.

Rogozin stated he’d adopt Nikolas the dog, in reaction to this backlash, however continued to hail the study because of “breakthrough.” Although liquid breathing technology has been around for many decades, Rogozin stated that individuals have to have regard to the Russian scientists and their job, which state-owned news outlet referred to as “science fiction that has become reality.”

Response from other government officials has varied. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked about the social networking backlash and defended using animals for scientific study.

“Is the dog living? Why are you asking questions? Nobody tortured [the dog] with water,” said Peskov.

But pro-Kremlin journalist Dmitry Smirnov wasn’t so certain about the method.

“This is, needless to say, progress along with also a breakthrough, however I’m sorry for the pet,” he said.

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Vladimir Putin has a 31-year-old daughter he doesn't want anyone to know about

Vladimir Putin has a 31-year-old daughter named Katerina Tikhonova who is a dancer and a scientist, according to one of her dance colleagues who confirmed the rumors on Sunday before packpeddling on his statements. 

Rumors of Putin's third daugter have been swirling around for years, but have never been publicly substantiated.

World Rock‘n‘Roll Confederation (WRRC) Vice President for Legal Affairs Manfred Mohab confirmed to Reuters during an interview at a dance event that Tikhonova is the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The WRRC is the professional body for aerobic dancers including Tikhonova.

Mohab told Reuters in the interview that he knew Tikhonova through their work together on the confederation’s presidium.

When asked whether he knew Tikhonova was Putin’s daughter, he said: “Yes. I know her, yes of course.” Asked a second time, he nodded and said: “Yes.”

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The Kremlin and Tikhonova did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.

After the story was published, Mohab phoned Reuters to clarify his statements, saying “I can’t confirm that I know the daughter of Mr. Putin. I have nothing to do with them.” 

Asked why he had earlier said Tikhonova was Putin’s daughter, Mohab said: “Believe me, it was so loud in the hall that a lot of the things I can’t understand and other things I felt that I didn’t understand right. So it’s not sure that I gave you the right answers.”

This is the second time that Reuters reported on Tikhonova’s relationship to Putin before being publicly challenged post publication.

A Russian journalist reported on Tikhonova in 2015

Russian journalist Oleg Kashin said he had discovered a secret daughter of President Vladimir Putin's in a 2015 news article titled "She" (or «Она» in Russian). In the article, Kashin wrote he believes that two Russian women who share the same name are actually the same person: Katerina Putin.

The article has since been taken down.

Kashin connected an acrobatic dancer by the name of Katerina Tikhonova with a scientist and director of the company "Иннопрактика" by the same name that had been leading the expansion of Moscow State University.

"The biographic details of the three Katerinas — Putin, Tikhonova-dancer, Tikhonova-scientist ... are all connected into one biography, and yes, it is one woman," Kashin wrote in his now defunct report.

The piece stated the whereabouts of Tikhonova the dancer were uncertain — Kashin reported she was born in 1986 — and the past of Tikhonova the scientist was also cloudy, Kashin wrote.

via Oleg Kashin/KashinKashin made the connection between dancer and scientist through the fact that Tikhonova the scientist is also the vice president of Acrobatic Rock 'N' Roll.

"I do not know who that is," the press spokesman for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said of Tikhonova to Forbes Russia in 2015. "So far, a bunch of girls have come forth as Vladimir Putin's daughters."

Kashin also said that Tikhonova the scientist was reportedly named as a plus one of Kirill Shamalov, the son-in-law of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, during an event in Davos.

Kashin wrote: "let's consider this, just another form of the conspiracy."

Here is Tikhonova's dancing:

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And then there is some of this:

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And a little more:

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Here is the full video of her routine:

And here's Tikhonova the scientist at the Acrobatic Rock 'N' Roll:

via Oleg Kashin/Kashin

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"Why Would Vladimir Putin Want to Get Rid of Aleksei Navalny Now?" by BY OLEG KASHIN via NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3j0Xarn