Baturina Reveals Who “Ordered” a Hit on Luzhkov The wife of Moscow’s mayor sees a connection between the escalating conflict and the presidential elections, as well as the hand of “certain officials” in the presidential administration. Read the full article
Congratulations to The New Times on the great exclusive. But I should note that it’s a strange decision not to post the interview on the website. So people have to link to reprints. Now tell us again about the power vertical (Russia’s centralized chain of command) and governability. Not only Luzhkov himself, but also his hellish crook of a wife are openly telling that vertical to get lost. And so far they seem to be doing just fine. Good for them, huh. As you can see, I still haven’t fixed my computer. I know the Latin script is annoying — sorry. Update. Thanks for the transliteration link. Useful thing. But I’m too lazy to rewrite it all now. Update 2. All right, all right. Thanks to the kind person in the comments: Congratulations to The New Times on the great exclusive. But I should note that it’s a strange decision not to post the interview on the website. So people have to link to reprints. Now tell us again about the power vertical (Russia’s centralized chain of command) and governability. Not only Luzhkov himself, but also his hellish crook of a wife are openly telling that vertical to get lost. And so far they seem to be doing just fine. Good for them, huh. As you can see, I still haven’t fixed my computer. I know the Latin script is annoying — sorry.