After some years of missing out on the latest web developments, I caught up with these million people already on Flickr and got myself an account. You can see many of my pics from Central Asia there.

While still sorting out the best blog layout and a whole lot of other technical details, there are two more neweurasia blogs that have started to post:

Joel does a great double-job of posting on http://georgia.neweurasia.net (and will soon be joined by Austin and others) and http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net (where Aidar, me and others will help out as well).

Meanwhile, Marianna has her latest Azerbaijan election update on http://azerbaijan.neweurasia.net.

Don’t miss out on Rico’s coverage of Turkmenistan, either.

Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will commence posting within some days, as well.

So, an ultra-nationalist Russian politician is pissed off amidst the colour revolutions sweeping through Russia’s backyard – but what can he do? Alexei Mitrofanov, close political ally of enfant terrible Zhirinovsky, chose to co-author a porn film – starring look-alikes of Yulia Timoshenko and Mikhail Saakashvili. I read this story back in Tblisi, but couldn’t trace it online for your reading pleasure. Now the Globe and Mail has got it:

What does it matter if the porn star selected for the role of Yulia wears the same braided hairstyle as Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko? Or that she climbs into a Russian attack helicopter, zooms over the mountains along Georgia’s northern border and makes love to someone who resembles Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili?

The Moscow Times had it some time ago I see.

The funny thing that was written in the Georgian Times article not available online was that a group of Russian “journalists” tried to show the film to peasants in Kakheti province, nothern Georgia, who refused violently and drove the Russians out of the village by force. “We don’t want to see our President defamed”, they reportedly said.

The movie has already some major repercussions:

The television pictures of the two caused an argument between Saakashvili and his Dutch-born wife, Sandra Roelofs, Mitrofanov said, without disclosing where he had come by this piece of gossip.

Ukrainians have already prepared the backfire: They found two persons bearing a strinking resemblance to Putin and Yushchenko. That’s probably aimed at a different camp, though:

Ukrainian film directors have already decided to answer Mitrofanov’s film with their own blue, or rather orange, movie, Grigalashvili said. The erotic movie is to be called “Sladky Volodya i Goluboi Vitya,” or “Sweet Volodya and Gay Vitya,” and will feature porn-alikes of President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, Grigaslashvili said.

Hilarious.

Update: Ahem, pictures here.