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Sat 21 Aug, 2004 01:06 am
MOSCOW (AFP) - A bust of Russian President Vladimir Putin, illegally erected in northwest Russia, survived only 24 hours before being taken down and hauled away by police, regional officials said.
Although photographs and miniature busts of the Russian leader are common, Russian media speculated that the plaster sculpture in Pskov was the first full size work to see the light of day.
The work of local artist Vitaly Kuzmin, it bore the inscription: "To Vladimir Putin-- the grateful people of Pskov."
It seems to have been a casualty of local political infighting, as it was put up by a group of voters opposed to Pskov's governor Eduard Mikhailov who is running for political office.
When it was unveiled the crowd displayed placards to television cameras with pro-Putin but also anti-Mikhailov slogans.
The statue is now languishing at police headquarters as possible evidence.
It seems that, since I started studying Russian History from 1810 onwards, I have never come across anything that I can call normal rule. Putin really is a dangerous man as regards to Russian democracy...
If only we had someone like ZAPATERO, the Spanish PM, for a world leader. Now there's a guy whose policies are decent.
really? well you are the bearer of good news today drom
i dont know about any of this.
i stay away from politics and the like...
He's a wonderful man, the guy whose first move when he was elected was to take all of the Spanish troops from Iraq and ensure that they don't go back there.
He's also made gay marriage legal, increased rights all around, and has plans to build up the poor through education and opportunities. He's a diamond guy.
wow
thats good to hear
is he really a politician
:wink:
no joking aside he earned my respect for pulling the troops out...
and im glad to hear that it seems he actually does care about people
grooooovy
hahaha listen to you ...shhh dont be saying none of that or they might not let you come back here...
actually theyd be doing you a favour if they did this
well i think a great thing he could do, which i doubt he will, is give south americans (the ones who are descended from spaniards) the chance to become spanish citizens....
O, the only time that I plan on coming back is to see 2 plays at Stratford on New Year's eve.
I think that I recall hearing of his calling a debate about it. The unfortunate thing, though, would be that this would mean that he would be voted out, and the PP (like an evil conglomeration of New Labour and the Tories) would get in and undo all that he's done. (Another question of overpopulation and greed for resources.)
ahh the caeser play thing?
and right... well only time will tell...
Yeah. You know, Mandela's favourite lines were these words, promoting truth and courage, from Cæsar:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
far out Drom
you truly are a wealth of literature arent you
how cool
good for you
the only shakespear i know is a midsunner nights dream and the tempest and thats only because they were in a story i read where old bill wrote two plays for a certain lord morpheus who is dream actually i read the tempest once when i was younger too i remember now but it just went in one ear and out the other
acutally did he do anthony and cleopatra? i did that at school but i cant remember that either... oh yes its coming back now and some book about a king called henry/harry with some fat guy friend falstaff...
hmm i was not so good at acting as a child
i once played the part of jack frost in some play i cant remember the name of now....
as a humorous after thought (for me anyway)> hehe the only acting ive done is in police custody
beatrice? ariel?
well all i remember is the ship and the wreck and the island and the magician and not much more
much magic and things.....
hmm i dont know mate about reading that sort of thing.. maybe i will.. im too busy enjoying this moment..this now...
Ariel was the airy spirit in The Tempest, the opposite of Caliban and the magician, Prospero, 's assistant on the island... a spellbinding character to play. Ariel can also throw voices, which meant that she could foil the ridiculous drunks' conspiracy against Prosp.
Beatrice is the lead character in Much Ado About Nothing, probably the wittiest in all of Shakespeare. She 'had rather hear [her] dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves [her.]' She engages in a war of wit with Benedick, whom she pretends to dislike and who pretends to dislike her-- but both are fascinated with each other, which is why they mention the other all the time.
She'd put him down because he did:
Don Pedro: Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of Signor Benedick.
Beatrice: Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with
false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
Don Pedro: You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.;
Messenger I see, lady, the gentleman [Benedick] is not in your books.
Beatrice No; an he were, I would burn my study.
So the people around them trick them into thinking that the other loves them... and they end up in a wonderful relationship.
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