Tag: Siberia

Chukchis Sue Dictionary Compilers for Denigrating References to Their Nation

March 27, 2014
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 27 – The Chukchis, a numerically small nation in the extreme far northeast of the Russian Federation on the Bering Straits, have long been the object of Russian humor. Some “Chukchi jokes,” as they are known, focus on the absurdities or problems of Soviet or Russian life, but others make fun of the […]

Kremlin’s Anti-Western Mythology Dangerously Self-Destructive, Milov Says

March 25, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 25 – The Kremlin’s anti-Western mythology is now so widespread that many in Moscow and some in the West accept it as a given and fail to understand how it reflects a specific political program and how dangerous and self-destructive it is for those who are putting it about, according to Vladimir Milov. […]