This is what you need to know about me: I blog under the nik “yalensis”. I am NOT a robot, spambot, or any other kind of bot, I am a real person, I have a real life and a normal job. (No, that is NOT me on the horse, that’s Peter the Great, I don’t even know how to ride horses).
Anyhow, I don’t get paid for blogging, translating, or any of the other things that I do. (Except for my real job.)
I hope you enjoy my blog, I intend to provide interesting content for this small but growing niche of readers.
Awful Avalanche 
How do you blog when you’re…like…carved out of stone, dude?
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It ain’t easy!
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Yalensus- are you Russian?
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Yup!
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Respect man!!! Much love from Germany!
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Thanks, Max!
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Ditto, respect. Interesting. Same country.
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I have NO IDEA how your BLOG ended up on my desk. But this is a good thing. Just know this. The Spiders that run the place are NOT the same people who live peacefully under its flag. I extend the hand of friendship to my Russian (private citizen) enemy. No collusion please?
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Eek – I’m scared of spiders!
Don’t worry, though, I NEVER collude!
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I love Russia and I love your blog, it’s so interesting! I’m so glad I found it!
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Welcome, Paola!
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Yalensis, do you write on other platforms?
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Interesting site. Can you give me links to some Russian blogs written in English like yours. Unfortunately Cyrillic alphabet isn’t easy to read so I’m looking for blogs like yours, where Russians are writing about they culture and history in English, and they are NOT editors of big magazines, but ordinary citizens like you (I believe) with moderate/central point of view. Thank you.
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Did you get my comment I emailed to you? I have read about the outright criminality under Yeltsin and hos Union dissolution was so that assets could be stolen.
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My diploma says that I am a graduate of UNIVERSITAS YALENSIS…..YALENSIS is either an adjective describing « University » or the genitive « of Yale »
So may I presume you are a graduate of Yale?
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Nice guess, Richard, but it’s also the name of a bird!
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Cool blog, would love to read more about the different ethnic groups.
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It feels good to read your comments, between serious and ironic, both empathic and distanced. Please continue, and thank you!
Jan, from Germany
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I’ve been lurking here for a few years now. Discovered your blog via Prof Robinson and Patrick Armstrong. I’m sick to death of our Empire of Lies and its official gaslighting, sick of being ruled by neoprogressicon oligarchs – a flock of human vultures who start wars just so they can feast on the carrion.
Like our Democrats used to chant when Bush was in office, ‘Regime change begins at home.’ Your daily updates on the SMO have been priceless! Please keep up the good work.
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Thanks, John! Flock of human vultures is absolutely correct analysis. Sad to see what the human race has become.
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I am not sure how I found your blog but its on the top of my list. I enjoy your coverage of smaller places that get missed and how life is returning to the liberated provinces. Thanks for finding the time to write!
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Thanks, Aaron, I appreciate that!
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Ooh Mr Yalensis, I think you are wonderful. I’m sure you hear from people ad nauseum about what an incredibly uplifting and oh so necessary antidote your site is for those of us who cannot bare to absorb even so much as one more MSM headline. I was just reflecting that I have not seen or read a single truthful MSM report on the situation in the Ukraine since the special military operation began. The term neo Nazis ( I prefer the more accurate term of Nazis) appears only in parentheses in the MSM, a good 8 years worth of alarming reports across the board from every major media outlet in the west, about the rise of ultra right wing nationalism & nazism in Ukraine suddenly forgotten , as we are now told that “Nazism” is just a pejorative term used by Putin for anyone he perceives as the enemy. Thank you so much for brightening my day.. my night here in Wales, U.K. I wish that I could apologise to all of Russia for the crimes of my government.
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You’re possibly aware due to increased traffic (although I don’t know if that has happened) but you’ve come onto the radar of a moderately well-known econoblog, Naked Capitalism. Amongst their many daily posts, they have one called “Links” where they have, as you might guess, links to a lot of stories around the whirled weed weeble. I noticed the Avalance was one, a few days ago, because that link came up in blue (indicating I had already read it) instead of the usual orange font colpur. NC leans slightly to the left, in American terms, but its eminences grise are no fans of the Dem power structure. They’re sceptical to a fault, and riposte the conventional wisdom when it’s wrong. (As it usually is.) Congrats, Yalensis, on your increasing acclaim. You’re obviously doing something right. Which means you could be in for the Gonzalo Lira treatment if you do it too well. Hppefully not the full Anwar al-Awlaki…
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God bless you for everything you’re doing here! I celebrated the discovery of your blog with two glasses of Famous Grouse, neat. The United States will never return to being a free country until it shakes off the oppressive burdens of empire.
God bless Comrade Putin, too!
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“Beware the pine-tree’s withered branch! Beware the awful avalanche!”
Hi Yalensis, did you ever read/watch the Jack London book/movie ‘To build a Fire’? It is a short story about a 1800s Yukon gold prospector who got into serious trouble when he and a siberian husky dog tried to do a days hike to the next village in -70 c. winter conditions. It is the perfect match to your above quote for your page. If you read or watch the linked video you will see what I mean 🙂
Ahoj! Deschutes
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Yalensis,
I have no other way of contacting you so here it is:
Just saw a longish interview of a Woman (Russian) who returned with her children in tow to Russia after 20+ years living in Germany. I found it very interesting although auto translation of subtitles was not great. She apparently had a LOT of problems with Germans and their hostility to Russia and Russians living there. Apparently they liked Putin until around 2012 when Russia introduced a bill banning LGBT propaganda. Things got worse with 2014, etc.
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Please help! I am a long time subscriber to Awful Avalanche and I have checked the WordPress site of my subscriptions which confirms that I am indeed a subscriber and am listed as one who should postings instantly. However I have not received any postings since the late September posting about the Hunka affair in the Canadian Parliament. Что Делать?
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