Pussy Riot

The Winter Olympics have opened, the pride of the nation circling the parade grounds in Sochi with love.

American tv commentators are heard mis-pronouncing Kazimir Malevich several times as well as making sure to explain that while Vladimir Putin's choreography of Russian history does not exactly jibe with reality it does express the 'grandeur' and 'sweep' of the nation's history. Certainly their cue cards must be laughing.

The Kremlin deplores any 'politicizing' of the Games. A Kremlin spokesman says, "do you know when everyone will love us and cease to criticize us and so on, including criticizing us for no reason? When we dissolve our army, when we concede all our natural resources as a concession and when we sell all our land to Western investors. That's when they'll cease to criticize us."