{"id":238,"date":"2009-01-20T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-01-20T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:38:06","slug":"%c2%ab%d0%a1%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%8c-%d0%b1%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d0%bd%d1%8f%c2%bb-%e2%80%98in-broad-day-light%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/%c2%ab%d0%a1%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%8c-%d0%b1%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d0%bd%d1%8f%c2%bb-%e2%80%98in-broad-day-light%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u0421\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044c \u0431\u0435\u043b\u0430 \u0434\u043d\u044f\u00bb – \u2018In Broad Day Light\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00ab\u0414<\/em><\/strong>\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u043a\u0435<\/em><\/strong> \u043d\u0435 <\/em><\/strong>\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0430\u0451<\/span>\u0442\u0441\u044f!<\/em><\/strong>\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>[<\/em>Doesn’t succumb to taming (or training; teaching)] – I saw this splendid advertisement for<\/em> <\/em>\u00ab<\/em><\/strong>\u041d\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u0430\u044f<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>\u0433\u0430\u0437\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u0430<\/em><\/strong>\u00bb<\/em><\/strong><\/a> [‘New Paper’] in Yekaterinburg in early January, and had planned on using it for a post on the dative case with the words \u2018Anna Politovskaya<\/a> Would’ve Been Proud”, but yesterday’s events caused me to think it fits right now.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>There are two ways you can live as a foreigner in Russia: either you can see your life there in the big \u2018Russian Federation Perspective’ and get mad about everything that’s wrong and unjust and horrible, awful, terrible – or you can view your life as just being your life<\/em> in this breathtaking, huge country inhabited by astonishing, kind, intelligent, generous and unique (in many, many ways! Both good and bad, I’m afraid) people. I try to live my life according to the second way, even though I know all is not as well as we wished it to be here, and that many things have changed since I arrived (for the worse), but my reality here is not as gruesome as what one might see on TV. Often I try not to take things that I read too \u00ab\u0431\u043b\u0438<\/span>\u0437\u043a\u043e \u043a \u0441\u0435<\/span>\u0440\u0434\u0446\u0443\u00bb <\/strong>[\u2018close to heart’], but it’s not always possible. My Russia<\/em> is the best country in the world – but I am aware that my Russia is not everybody’s Russian Federation. Early this morning, while I was browsing through \u00ab\u0420\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0451<\/span>\u0440\u00bb<\/a> <\/strong>as I always do, I came across a title of a story that read \u00ab\u0421\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044c \u0431\u0435<\/span>\u043b\u0430 \u0434\u043d\u044f\u00bb<\/a> [<\/strong>adv.<\/em> in broad daylight, in open daylight]. I noticed it first because I know it’s a phraseology that’s always puzzled me (it should be \u00ab\u0441\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0434\u0438 \u0431\u0435<\/span>\u043b\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0434\u043d\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [\u2018in the middle of a white day’] for it to be a grammatically correct sentence, now shouldn’t it?), but as I read it I was no longer puzzled at all over any grammatical constructions whatsoever. The story shocked me, and I can’t even explain why I was so shocked this time, when it’s not the first time. I was really shocked when Anna Politovskaya was murdered in October 2006<\/a> (I’ve read all of her books; for Christmas 2005 my mother got me a Swedish translation of her “Putin’s Russia”<\/a>), which was one of those \u2018coming-of-age’ moments for me. But this – a lawyer pushing for the re-opening of a case that should’ve given the guilty prison for life is walking down the street after a press conference with a young female journalist (she was still just a student!) in the middle of the day in Moscow and are gunned down. And nobody sees anything! Markelov died immediately; the girl earlier this morning in the hospital after an operation that failed to saver her life. You can read about it in English<\/a> at the Russophobe (usually that’s a bit hardcore for such a humanitarian as me, but in cases like these she’s the best<\/em>!), or in Russian at Novaya gazeta’s own page<\/a> (beware of nasty pictures; not for the sensitive).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

\u00ab\u0414\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0430\u0451\u0442\u0441\u044f!\u00bb [Doesn’t succumb to taming (or training; teaching)] – I saw this splendid advertisement for \u00ab\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430\u00bb [‘New Paper’] in Yekaterinburg in early January, and had planned on using it for a post on the dative case with the words \u2018Anna Politovskaya Would’ve Been Proud”, but yesterday’s events caused me to think it…<\/p>\n

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