Ownership of this floating palace hasn’t been definitively established — Russians cover their tracks — but it’s believed to be Putin’s plaything. Called the “Scheherazade” (the big boat in the photo below), it’s been laid up for repairs in an Italian p[...]
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Don’t judge all Russians by Putin’s behavior
Most of the badness is the handiwork of just one of them, and he doesn’t dance. In Italy this week, Russian and Ukrainian ballerinas danced together in a benefit show to raise money for the Red Cross (read story here; watch video below). A lot of the awful stuff that happens in the world resul[...]
March 24th, 2022 - 3:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Russia
Has Putin seen this art lover?
If not personally, his agents may know where he is. John Ruffo (old photo, left; profile here), now 67, is a Brooklyn-born Italian-American con artist who disappeared in 1998 after being sentenced to prison for swindling U.S. banks out of $350 million. Why might he be hiding in Russia? Ruffo is a co[...]
4 things Putin got wrong
Kirill Rogov, a Russian political analyst (C.V. here), says Putin’s Ukraine war is “lost” and an “epic failure,” and propounds 4 major mistakes: “The mistake was the notion that the West was unwilling to resist aggression, that it was lethargic, greedy and divided.” “[...]
March 21st, 2022 - 2:41 pm § in Misc.
Hitler couldn’t kill him; Putin did
Borys Romanchenko (photo, left), 96, was a Holocaust victim who survived Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. He would have been 19 years old in April 1945, so it’s amazing he survived the camps. In recent years, was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee, a[...]
Trump issues threat to Putin
Trump claims Putin invaded Ukraine because Biden is “weak,” Huffington Post notes (see this story here). So how would he deal with Putin? Like this, he says: “Sending American nuclear submarine patrols into Russian waters” to threaten him. (See that story here). Uh, okey-doke[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 3:31 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
What’s Putin fighting for in Ukraine?
“When Vladimir Putin shattered the peace in Europe by unleashing war on a democracy of 44 million people, his justification was that modern, Western-leaning Ukraine was a constant threat and Russia could not feel ‘safe, develop and exist,'” BBC News says (here). That’s consis[...]
March 16th, 2022 - 12:27 am § in Russia
Putin’s ruthless war in Syria (video)
Don’t expect anything from Putin. He’s a baby killer. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Putin and Trump
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March 15th, 2022 - 7:21 pm § in Russia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Putin’s little victims
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