http://pdberger.com/farewell-boris/ The blog of a British freelance writer living in New York Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:55:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pdberger.com/farewell-boris/#comment-50077 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:57:02 +0000 http://pdberger.com/farewell-boris/#comment-50077 It has been wall to wall standing on tanks and drunkeness on the BBC all afternoon - Malcolm Rifkind was wheeled out as their main interviewee, followed by John Major. The radio fared slightly better, with a queue of second rate Russian politicians and diplomats. I look forward to actually reading normal Russians' responses, as the few they have interviewed seem drawn between viewing him as a democrat and as a the embodiment of 90's style corruption. Yet they still see him as a Russian, frequently refering to the seeming contradictions in his personality as part of his 'dusha'... I'll have a cruise round Yandex later this evening... It has been wall to wall standing on tanks and drunkeness on the BBC all afternoon - Malcolm Rifkind was wheeled out as their main interviewee, followed by John Major. The radio fared slightly better, with a queue of second rate Russian politicians and diplomats. I look forward to actually reading normal Russians’ responses, as the few they have interviewed seem drawn between viewing him as a democrat and as a the embodiment of 90’s style corruption. Yet they still see him as a Russian, frequently refering to the seeming contradictions in his personality as part of his ‘dusha’… I’ll have a cruise round Yandex later this evening…

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