Jason Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
There are two distinct reactions that I’ve received from friends in regards to the name of the Springfield, Missouri based quartet known as Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (from here on SSLYBY). The first is that it’s a stupid name that is way too long, while the second comes from people who get the joke and think that it’s amusing.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Hélène Mulholland: A conversation with a police officer on my way to a fringe meeting suggests political engagement really is at a low ebb
The World Forgot (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
It’s hard not to love the sublimely catchy tunes that pop and sparkle all over the latest release from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. And honestly, who can resist loving a band who chose an entire sentence for their moniker? {Quite a cheeky sentence at that}. Regardless whether you like their name, or lack [...]
MusicEmissions (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
After their critically acclaimed debut, Broom , and a relatively overlooked EP, tediously-named indie rockers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin return with their second full-length from Polyvinyl, Pershing . Noticeably lacking the intimate, lo-fi connection that Broom charmed it listeners with, Pershing offers the band’s further foray into sunny, 60’s influenced, indie-pop, emphasizing improved...
The Strong Conservative (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The Russia Boris Yeltsin had hoped for, free, partnered with the West, and democratic, is not to be. Vladimir Putin has other plans. He has steadily rolled back freedom of the press and democracy, making the ghosts of the Soviet past a looming shadow of the future. The ex-KGB man very likely ordered the assassination of another journalist in the north Caucus region. Magomed Yevloyev died from a gunshot...
nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Mikhail A Molchanov, professor of political science at St Thomas University, Canada writes : During the whole Boris Yeltsin decade, Russia's foreign policy did not significantly deviate from the master plan devised in Washington. The country was ruled by the oligarchs, not by the elected government. The West has called this "democracy". While the two small Caucasian nations were clamouring for protection,...
Rafael Behr (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
You said in an interview on Radio 4 today that Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined Nato 'about 10 years ago.'They joined in 2004. So 'about' 4 years ago. 'About 10 years ago' Boris Yeltsin was still President of Russia, Bill...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Brussels - In 1997 the European Union, which at that time had 15 members, signed a ten-year Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Boris Yeltsin's Russia. The document still governs EU-Russia relations, as the two sides are currently negoti...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Almost 20 years ago, as the Soviet Union tottered, I chatted with Boris Yeltsin and came to two odd conclusions: He liked to drink vodka in the mornings and had lost all his faith in communism. I never learned whether alcohol, contrary to what usually happens, cleared his mind, but it may have. He was more brilliant in his cups than sober. At that time, his main fear was that the KGB might kill him...
bag of songs (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Some days it's all one big mystifying puzzle isn't it ? 1 : Mates Of State - Jigsaw Buy Re-Arrange Us 2 : Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Modern Mystery Buy Pershing 3 : Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place Buy In Rainbows 4 : The Rolling Stones - Jigsaw Puzzle Buy Beggars Banquet 5 : Son Volt - Mystifies Me Buy Trace
A New Band A Day! (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
So after frothing at the mouth a bit yesterday over Band Of The Day Indica Ritual, here's hoping for something a little less mentalistic and more soothing today. And that's exactly what Today's New Band, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, are. In many ways, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin are perfect A New Band A Day fodder - in so much that they fulfil all these precise and extensive A.N.B.A.D....
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The Soviet Union was once a mighty empire, controlling large chunks of land in Europe and Asia, and giving the West a mighty enemy. Then it all fell apart; the individual states (many of them incorporated by force) wanted their freedom, and Boris Yeltsin wanted his own Russia to rule, and so the Soviet empire ended. Then began the decline. Then rose a strongman out of all this, one who had the blood...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Caucasus Caldron - Arnaud de Borchgrave, Washington Times For several years after the implosion of the Soviet empire, and the end of the Cold War, the United States assured Boris Yeltsin and his successor Vladimir Putin that Washington was not interested in expanding NATO's writ to include former Soviet republics. That assurance was ignored when the three Baltic States were voted in to the NATO club....
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
I admit up front my innate antipathy for Russia, dating from the days of the Soviet empire. I took a wait and see attitude following the breakup of the USSR, and I certainly cheered on that drunken sot, Boris Yeltsin, as he climbed atop a tank and dismantled Communism. I was even fooled at the beginning by Vlad "the Impaler" Putin -- who evidently fooled President George W. Bush as well. But for a...
The Pelican's Perch (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
I’m almost positive they filmed this here in Springfield. I recognize that neighborhood they’re playing in. I could be wrong, but hey, any new SSLYBY news I’m posting.
