While much of North America basks in unseasonably warm temperatures, Russia is enduring one of the coldest winters on record.
As usual, Russians are doing more than coping. In Moscow, snowmen appeared in the Arbat and thousands protested against nationalism.
Photo by Nicholas Danilov, MosNews.com
Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin says he has no regrets in naming Vladimir Putin to succeed him. But this little exchange seemed to come from left field:
By the way, what do you think about Lenin’s body remaining in the Mausoleum on Red Square?
I did not have the time to finish the whole story with Lenin’s reburial. We should have buried his body long ago, like good Christians.
In honor of Yeltsin’s 75th birthday (Feb. 1), Московские новости is running excerpts from a new biography by Vitaly Tretyakov.
