In its entirety, this is an item from “The Reliable Source” blog in The Washington Post this week:
Medvedev goes for the record: Jazz and rock music, that isWhile Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Washington with President Obama on
official business, his staff went on a more personal quest: music for his vinyl collection.
Two Russian women who said they worked for Medvedev walked into Som Records on 14th Street Thursday looking for Duke Ellington, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix recordings — Medvedev, 44, is a big jazz and rock fan and collects rare records. Owner Neal Becton told us he was out of Ellington discs, but sold the women three Hendrix records, two by King, plus music by Gil Evans, Blossom Dearie and Mark Murphy. The women, who got instructions from someone via cellphone, paid the $150 tab in cash — two $100 bills.
No idea what he is going to do with Blossom Dearie. Everybody in Russia knows that his biggest passion, and about the only music he is ready to speak about, is British hard rock group Deep Purple.
Mr. Moshkow is editor of the web site jazz.ru. You can go it by clicking on his name in the upper left corner of this comment—DR)
So that’s why the FBI busted all those supposed Russky spies–the old Vinyl Conspiracy, the “Gentleman’s (and -Woman’s) Game” if ever there was one, still afoot in the homeland and abroad… (I guess the only good Red may be that woodsheddin’ head-arrangin’ Med, who leaves all the rough stuff to Real Commie Antagonist Victor.)