Ben Schreckinger, Politico: Tinder Woes, Suspicious Landlords and Snarky Bosses: Young and Russian in D.C.
Washington’s young émigré crowd is beginning to feel like they’re living in a spy novel. And they’re the bad guys.
Not so long ago, the Russian émigré party scene in Washington was off the hook. Every weekend, promoters would throw Slavic night bashes at venues like Ozio on M Street and Eden on Farragut Square. Euro-pop beats pounded and vodka shots flowed. In 2013, Mari Vanna, a three-story restaurant and nightclub littered with Soviet-era kitsch, opened in DuPont Circle and became the Russian diaspora’s de facto party house. Its “KGB Karaoke” nights on Wednesdays raged into the morning hours. Top Russian acts like Ivanushki International would swing through town to play gigs, and Washington Capitals stars Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin would sometimes join in the revelry with students and summer workers from all over the former Soviet Union.
“Before, I would call an event and say, ‘Hey we’re going to have Ukrainian Independence Day,’ and everybody would come,” Andrey Bessarabov, better known as DJ Bezza, a Soviet-born IT worker who moonlights for Troika Party, a promoter of Eastern European club nights in the area. “It didn’t matter Ukrainian, Russian. Nobody differentiated.”
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WNU Editor: I can spend all night talking about my own experiences in official Washington on how my analysis and work was highly regarded, praised, and used .... until they found out about my background. Bottom line. Doors are shut in Washington if you are from Russia.
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Somehow I don't believe these fire bombings and street protests are the work of angry Basarians. Shows the love for Iran in Iraq is limited to the groups Iran has bribed. After Trump's sanctions have settled over Iran, they will have less cash for bribes.
Then you think the Iranians paid Iraqis to burn the Iranian facility in Basra?
I can't say but from what I have read for a few years people in that section of Iraq have been dissatisfied for years with the Baghdad government's response to their situation especially so now that Sadaam and his repression of the Basra area is gone from the scene.
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