Russia

I have no recollection of when I started speaking Russian; it just happened. But I moved to California when I was 3 years old and lost the Russian language in the pursuit of learning English. So while I can’t remember learning the first time, I do remember the second time around.

Whatever you may think of journalists in this moment, the freedom of the press is a constitutionally guaranteed right, as it should be in a country that boasts a legacy of democracy.

If anyone could get away with putting on an anticlimactic live show and still consistently sell out venues for their identity alone, it’s Pussy Riot.

For director Armando Iannucci, it’s ripe for a punchline. "It is comedy and tragedy plus time," he stated in an interview with The Daily Californian.

I really feel for any athlete who could have made it, had their place not been taken by a potential cheater.

Berkeley resident and computer programmer Alexander Tsukerman died at Maui Memorial Medical Center after he was found floating off Maluaka Beach on Saturday, where he had been snorkeling. He was 71.

A now-defunct twitter account run by a Russian propaganda organization spread divisive tweets about UC Berkeley to its more than 100,000 followers last spring, during the time when Ann Coulter and other conservative speakers were scheduled to appear on campus.

Although the sound of a ringing bell washed over campus Saturday, its source was not the Campanile — instead, the sound came from an electronic replication of the Russian Tsar Bell, according to a campus press release.

A study published Tuesday by UC Berkeley professors concluded that unmitigated climate change will reduce the average person’s income by 23 percent and increase the global inequality gap by 2100.