[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Andrew at Acts of Minor Treason wonders why Soviet material and cultural kitsch is prized, at least in Toronto, despite its totalitarian associations.


• Far Outliers examines the serious problems facing the 1944 Soviet invasion of Romania and looks at the dispersal of ethnic businesses across multiethnic suburban neighbourhoods in Alabama's Birmingham.


• Inkless Wells' Paul Wells reports that Canada's foreign minister Peter MacKay is barely in the race for NATO secretary-general.


• pauldrye at Passing Strangeness examines Port Nelson, the Manitoba port city on subarctic Hudson's Bay that never quite managed to survive.


• Slap Upside the Head reports a Russian political scientist's contentions that the increasing number of out gay men augurs the imminent doom of American society and that Traditional Anglican Communion wishes to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church over the same-sex issue.


• Windows on Eurasia suggests that Russian bloggers play a more critical role in Russian society than dissidents did in Brezahnev's Soviet Union, whatever that means, and looks at diaspora media in Moscow.