Lots of gallows humor, that's for sure. The language itself seemed to have changed around the Stalin years. People recounting these stories talk in a weird third person possessive. It's not "I was hungry" it's "The hunger was present". There is this sense of detachment and helplessness in the language itself. You can…

Doesn't look like the same crash to me.

Can't find anything about pay structures. Doesn't mean much, I read Russian rather poorly, scanning is out of the question. There is the part about the guys leaving their docimeters in the clean zone so as not to be kicked out of the hot zone by the scientists too early. Or people showing up in their best clothes,…

Don't have the best russian, but I'll take a crack at it. Russian tenses are weird

If he is charged, his name should be public record

Damn spell check

I'm sure that there is a large sack of money to be made by whomever finds out why the car burned. Stop complaining about the lack of official statements to reprint and go do some journalism.

With the author being rather confused on the difference between debt and deficit, and yet expects us to take him seriously?

abolish the TSA