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My small handful of readers will have noticed that Copydude has been off the planet for a week or so.

Over the New Year, the server moved from the US to the Netherlands - but not without incident. Some recent posts appear to have been lost in transit. I’ll have to look these out.
The upside is [...]

The Poster at Ruminations On Russia has been commenting on the recent spate of contract hits in Russia. He writes:
I am closer to becoming a billionaire than the real killers are to being captured. And you have no idea what a gap the former is.
Well, there’s a cheap shot at Putin’s social progress. Let’s [...]

After a few problems connecting a Mac to the net in Russia, I was thinking of getting this tattooed on my forehead.
But now I learn that Wi-Fi is more common in Eastern Europe than I thought. I was told, ‘You really should get out more’.
What they probably meant was, I should eat out more. It [...]

Probably the best book about contemporary Russia was called just that. Around the time of perestroika, ‘Understanding Russia‘ by Matthew Maly was conceived as a kind of ‘how to’ guide for new foreign investors. But Matthew’s ‘tell it like it is’ essay was so off-puttingly spot on, his bosses canned the project.

The first edition of [...]