-- Whose pot did the Croats, Bosnians and Slovenes piss in to not make it into this super Slavic union?
-- China Mieville wrote a book[0] along very similar thought lines which won the Locus Award.
Also, Garkavenko appears not to have taken the obvious side [1] in Ukraine's present conflict given how he is described in Foer's article
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassytown
[1] http://maidantranslations.com/2014/06/24/russian-volunteers-...