The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
When Boris Yeltsin ran low on cash, advisers urged that funds be borrowed from oligarch-controlled banks. As collateral, Moscow pledged shares in state-owned oil companies, the crown jewels of the Russian economy.
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
...Which will probably be on my list: Leona Naess, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Constantines ( really ?!), White Hinterland, Brendan Canning, Laura Marling. Write that shit in, folks. More egregious than this, though, is the demographic survey at the end that might as well say in 60pt font, HEY GUISE PLS HELP OUR SALES TEAM MARKET YOU AND YOUR HABITS TO AMERICAN APPAREL KTHX. Oh, 2008.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Boris Fyodorov, who advised on economic reform in the final years of the Soviet Union, served as Boris Yeltsin's finance minister and founded one of Russia's top investment banks, died today, his firm said.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
If diplomats were sportsmen, and their policies were medals, the western embassies in Moscow would surely hold the world record for getting Russia wrong. It matters not whether the gates of the Kremlin are open, as they were under Boris Yeltsin, or shut as they are now under Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. The result is the same: wilful incomprehension. In the 1990s when the doors and windows...
WTA Womens Tennis (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Zvonareva credits Yeltsin for Russian tennis revolution Boris Yeltsin, former Russian President who died in 2007, always loved tennis and was a permanent fixture at events featuring Russia and was often seen celebrating with team members when they won their Davis Cup or Fed Cup matches. Vera Zvonareva thinks he was instrumental in tennis becoming a popular sport in Russia. "Tennis became so popular...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Source of book image: online version of the NYT review quoted and cited below. Yeltsin's grievance against the Communists began before he was born, in an all-too-common history of family heartbreak that Mr. Colton pieces together with a good...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Jamz: We launched our latest column, Learn To Love , with a look at power-pop geniuses Beulah and counted down the Top 10 Autumn Albums . Videos: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin rocked a radio station sesh, "Paper Planes" got an un-ironic cover, and we discovered the most rand0m (read: vomit-inducing) hipster on all of YouTube. News: Neil Young may drop his box set in January, Wilco is done with...
The Catbirdseat (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
::: SSLYBY - “The House Of Memory” ::: This new track comes courtesy of the lovely folks behind the absolutely, mind-bogglingly, gasp-inducing, jaw-dropping Lifted Brow “Fake Bookshelf” project. You remember? The one where a slew of brilliant and talented folks created 107 new stories, songs, and comics, all based on the titles on a [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Stewart Brand once prophesied a world in which a faked video of Ronald Reagan punching Boris Yeltsin in the nose would look real, obsoleting phrases like "photo proof" and "the camera doesn't lie."...
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
My Old Kentucky Blog has launched a cool new website called LaundroMatinee. It includes live video performances from some of your favorite indie bands, including Bon Iver, Dr. Dog, The Rosebuds and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The songs...
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
SSLYBY~HEERS from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo . Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin rocking a radio station with the best song from their still-great Pershing . Never noticed it before, but song is totally "And I Love Her" by the Beatles. It comes courtesy of the LaundroMatinee , My Old Kentucky Blog's new spin-off video site. Previously : Live: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at the Echo *** Click...
My Old Kentucky Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
English Webster (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Sure, President Bill Clinton knew how to rock the house with his saxophone. And Boris Yeltsin used to get his groove on now-and-again on the campaign trail. But it is a little known fact that 85-year-old Israeli President Shimon Peres is a closet rock star. (And you thought he just palled around with Madonna ...) OK, maybe Peres is not a rock star quite yet, but he is a songwriter This year, to celebrate...
The Pelican's Perch (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Phillip and Will from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin were recently in Austria and the great live video blog “They Shoot Music Don’t They” got them to sit and play a few songs. Most of you know of my love for SSLYBY, as they’re from right here in Springfield where I live and I [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
How did Britain’s hapless prime minister become the saviour of the universe? “SAY what you like about Boris Yeltsin,” said one pithy obituarist of Russia’s mercurial president, “and you’re probably right.” Say what you like about Gordon Brown, it seems, and you’ll eventually be right too. He is a tin-eared, cack-handed no-hoper, the anti-Midas of politics; but also, now, an economic seer, globalisation’s...
