SORRY that this site hasn’t been updated for a few days. As you’ll see from the picture, I have just been in Moscow for a few days on a top secret mission.

In true cliffhanger style, I’ll leave it until the new year to reveal the purpose of my sojourn to Putinia. For now I will simply reveal that I did indeed take a black rollneck sweater and a box of Cadbury’s Milk Tray with me, and that I studiously avoided eating any sushi while I was there.

And what about the picture? Could it be that I am considering going over to the Dark Side (i.e. Russia Today)? Surely not!

Anyway, I will return in earnest in the new year - or sooner if I get really bored.

Meanwhile, I’d just like to send best wishes for a Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukah/Excellent Eid/Novel New Year to both readers of this blog. In the words of the late, great Dave Allen, “May your god go with you.” 

“YEA, VERILY I say unto you that acting Interior Minister Ivars Godmanis is the man to lead us from bondage to the promised land!”

Please forgive the slightly questionable translation from Latvian, but that was basically the gist of what President Dr Zatlers said Dec. 14 when he nominated Godmanis - who looks like a bad-tempered Father Christmas - to form a new government.

Is Godmanis the right man for the job? Baltic Bulletin said weeks ago that he was clearly the best of a bad bunch and that still holds true. There have been a few interesting diversions along the way, including:

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PLEASE FORGIVE this act of shameless self-promotion, but we just wanted to point out that top Central and Eastern Europe site Transitions Online has made our feature about Estonia’s Cyber Security approach their headline story.

So if you want to read it, please click HERE. Get it while it’s hot.

Great picture they’ve used, too. We slapheads have a lot to thank Bruce Willis for.