Walking into the J-School to finish a project or two, I got glued to the screen: Vladimir Putin announced a new name for a previously unnamed mountain in the Caucases region: Peak of Russian Counterintelligence Agents.
Wow.
The peak is in North Ossetia, right around Georgia and its nifamous breakaway region of South Ossetia. Gazeta.Ru reports the idea has been around since last October, when the named agents celebrated the 90th birthday of the ancestor agency. As a celebratory act, a few agents went climbing in the mountains together with local alpinists, right in the area where the new Peak of THEM now lies. Local authorities requested the naming.
None of this is reported in the U.S. media, but makes a bit more sense of the act.
