October, 2025

• 15 October

  

  KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”

  “The chance to speak Russian without an accent” — that’s how the chief explained his curiosity about our company. We, for our part, admitted that we’d never before shared a table with an officer of the Russian FSB.
• 11 October

  

  Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin

  “The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”
• 6 October

  

  Two Cultures of Denunciation

  Or, as Stalin would have put it, it’s class war. And if it’s class war, perhaps I should just stick to my own class standpoint and continue to oppose snitching in almost all circumstances. But wait...