http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/ Gideon Lichfield's Bulletins Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:22:31 GMT Gideon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/65 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/65 [Tap]. [Tap]. [Throat-clearing]. Hello? Er... is this thing still working? Some while ago - nearly three years ago, to be exact - I promised to explain to all Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:18:22 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/64 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/64 I've been turning this story over in my mind for a couple of weeks, wondering whether to bother with setting it down. I think the time has come, because there Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:59 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/63 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/63 I had gone for dinner at the house of some foreign friends who work in Gaza, and after the long hours of talking were done they offered to put me up in the Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:25:48 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/62 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/62 I had a dilemma about whether to go to the Gaza strip. I have relatives who are being, as the euphemism goes, disengaged. Yes, people of my own flesh and Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:33:48 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/61 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/61 I've been having trouble writing these bulletins since I got here, for reasons on which more another time. But tonight's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv dispels Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:24:36 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/60 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/60 Someone in Washington tells me that there is a lot of optimism there about the Palestinian election and the future of the peace process. Perhaps, he notes, Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:52:14 GMT Gideon Lichfield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/59 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/59 So here we go again - an old-new experience. Starting from scratch in a place of which you know very little, in a job that requires you to feign knowing very Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:57:42 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/58 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/58 It has been nearly half a year since my last confession and my sins are too many to recount. Good thing I'm not a Catholic... anyway, over the next few days or Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:35:15 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/57 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/57 As inspired by the impending destruction of Yukos and my mood about Russia in general: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of the Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:13:13 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/56 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/56 Secrecy, I learned this week, is the oil of diplomacy, the fuel of conspiracy and the lifeblood of the bureaucracy. Igor Sutyagin, who was convicted of spying Thu, 20 May 2004 21:26:52 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/55 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/55 Sorry for the silence of the last couple of months: partly because I've been strangely uninspired to write, and partly because (or maybe they're linked) I've Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:48:20 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/54 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/54 Milochka, I've just gone out shopping - it might take a while. If I'm not back in time, please help the girls. They're rehearsing a history play and I promised Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:43:16 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/53 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/53 What a strange election day. Up at 7.30 to head off into the "glubinka", the depths of the Russian heartland, with four colleagues - two Russians, two visiting Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:14:59 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/52 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/52 Next time you turn on a tap, pay attention to how the water comes out as you slowly open the valve. At some point the flow will switch from a smooth, quiet Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:16:44 GMT gid2k http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/51 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideonlichfield/message/51 Even since this was published I think I may have changed my mind. Fradkov's latest announcement is that he will merge nine ministries into two mega-ministries,