Matthew Kaminski: Putin’s neo-Soviet men
Late the other night at 7 Pyatnits ("7 Fridays"), one of a few fashionable restaurant bars in the Crimean capital, the Soviet national anthem came on the karaoke machine. A couple of guys grabbed the microphone. Their girlfriends and a few others joined in, formed a dancing circle and together sang out the last refrain, "O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,/ To Communism's triumph lead us on!"