* Vladimir Putin’s state perks, or the “life of a galley slave”
* English language Twitter feed of Russian opposition blogger Alexey Navalny
* Pew Research Center has a “where do you fit in terms of partisanship” quiz
* Stephen Walt on top 10 things would be foreign policy wonks should study. Political science is absent from the list, but statistics is up at number 2. [h/t to Jeff Schubert]
* Yiddish curses for Republican Jews [h/t to Elisabeth Gordon]