Opinion page grafitti

While other hooligans are out plastering gang signs and expletives, our local troublemakers are busying drumming protest against NATO.

In two separate locations by my office I've seen the following phrases: "NATO in Russia = War," "NATO - get out of Russia," "NATO = War" and more creatively "Medveputin wants war - we are destroyed!"

I can imagine some officer in the Russian army, sneaking out at night in fatigues, painting the town red with warnings about western military alliances...