A life in words
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Ukraine and Yuschenko Stand Firm on Gas
Forbes reports that Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has rejected a Russian loan as a means of coping with impending hikes in prices by Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom. According to the article, Gazprom is forcing a 4-fold increase in prices upon the Ukraine. Others have speculated that this action comes as retribution for the defeat of the…
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The Return of Russian Despotism
This Washington Post article sums up the state of affairs in Russia. Key points include: Supression of free media outlets Forced nationalization of key economic sectors, such as the oil industry Punishment of neighboring countries using oil prices as a weapon Manipulation of the national legislature to make it subservient to the Kremlin The net…
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Longing and Delight
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things — the beauty, the memory of our own past — are good images of what…