20 years since the collapse of the USSR!

A historic day today - for two reasons: 1. it is the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse; 2. this is the only time I will agree with Vladimir Putin and say that it indeed was the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."



So here I remember the great state with some nostalgia and some fear, with a prayer for those who never saw freedom in their lifetimes, and hope for those who are currently fighting for their rights in Moscow and other cities across Russia against the electoral fraud committed by Putin's United Russia in the 2011 Duma elections.

Going back to humming this old Soviet tune: Moi adres ne dom i ne ulitsa, moi adres Sovetskii Soyuz (my address isn't a house or a street, my address is the Soviet Union.