In case you were wondering how Putin and Medvedev are spending the New Year’s holiday, watch the video above. Ukraine and Russia are hurtling through a dispute over gas prices that has led to shortfalls around Eastern Europe in the dead of winter. But there’s always time to ski! And note how normal Medvedev is, the presenter implies. The president paid for everyone — everyone! — when they went out for apres-ski tea. The mountains do like nice though …
3 years agoMoskva
Russia, the land that launched a thousand poets and slaves, thinkers and tyrants, unable to be understood in all its beauty and horror.
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January 4, 2009