Day 912
Looking to the East
Narenda is in town. Maybe he and Z can chat about the revival of democratic institutions in India.
Roman has all the details.
On the Ukraine jacket, lots of wreath laying. Today is Flag Day. Saturday is Independence Day.
On the Russia jacket, more stability.
The Yermak-Kyrylenko line of defensive fortifications is, er, porous.
Пётр Паўлавіч Марцаў. Look him up. We are fast approaching the 10-year anniversary of his premature death. Vladimir Tsesler dreamt up the cover for a book eulogizing him. That I haven’t read.
(From a book I have read,) here is our Excerpt of the Day:
And, finally, it appears someone has flown the coop.
Apparently August 23rd is a good day to flee any coop! Today marks 35th year anniversary of the Baltic Nations' Human Chain protesting the USSR's occupation/annexation.
The Baltic Way (Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš; Estonian: Balti kett) or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom"[1]) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR and had a combined population of approximately eight million.[2] The central government in Moscow considered the three Baltic countries constituent republics of the Soviet Union