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  • Life In the Provinces

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    Due to morbid predilection of the Moscow owners of small business to mark their establishments with paint on the asphalt, now the entire capital of Russia, especially its center, looks spotty. However, they don't do it openly, cause it's forbidden, they take a bottomless package, hide a spray and a stencil inside and, if necessary, they paint right in a package. read more..

  • Crane

    White Sun of the Desert
    tnewman
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:05 pm

  • Russia orders to prevent speculators after food prices rise

    Russia News latest RSS headlines - Russia News.Net
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:55 am
    President Dmitry Medvedev ordered law enforcement agencies on Thursday to prevent speculators driving up food prices after the worst harvest in years and pledged help to ensure affordable food staples...

  • Army Vehicle Rams Bus

    The Moscow Times
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm

  • Thursday 2nd: Moonspell at Sport Complex Chayka Kiev

    Gruvr.com: Russia Concerts
    2 Sep 2010 | 11:39 am
    Moonspell Kiev : Sport Complex Chayka on 2010-09-02
 
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    The Moscow Times

  • Army Vehicle Rams Bus

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm

  • Sechin Backs Potash Merger

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm

  • Jailing of Pregnant Mother of 4 Sparks Protest

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm
    A pregnant mother of four who was charged with embezzlement has become a cause celebre after a court sentenced her to three years. Champions for her cause include former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina and children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov.

  • Superpower Ambitions Weaken Russia

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm
    Russia's hybrid regime, which combines elements of authoritarianism and electoral democracy, makes the nation an unattractive potential partner for global alliances. To improve relations, Russia must modernize and adopt a more predictable political system.

  • Full Plate for Medvedev's Baku Visit

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm
    When President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Azerbaijan Thursday for a two-day visit in yet another bid to strengthen the Kremlin's influence in the South Caucasus, he will face all the unsolved problems that have troubled the region since the Soviet breakup.
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  • Medvedev in Baku for Talks on Karabakh, Energy, Security - Asbarez Armenian News

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:56 am
    Hurriyet Daily NewsMedvedev in Baku for Talks on Karabakh, Energy, SecurityAsbarez Armenian NewsAs a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group with France and the United States, Russia is at the center of international efforts to mediate a settlement. Russia not saying it will defend Armenia against Azerbaijan - Kremlin sourceNews.AzZhamanak: Russia very likely to pour cold water on ArmeniaInformation-Analytic Agency NEWS.amArmenian MP vs. Azeri analyst: what should be expected of Russian leader?Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.amInformation-Analytic Agency NEWS.am -Trend News…

  • World cannot afford worsening disasters, warns UN climate change chief - UN News Centre

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:23 am
    Moneycontrol.comWorld cannot afford worsening disasters, warns UN climate change chiefUN News Centre2 September 2010 – The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind recently witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the top United Nations climate change Disasters show 'screaming' need for action - UN climate chiefMSN Philippines Newsall 162 news articles »

  • Love in the air: first in-flight gay wedding to be held in Sweden - New York Daily News

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:47 am
    New York Daily NewsLove in the air: first in-flight gay wedding to be held in SwedenNew York Daily NewsAndrey and Konstantin, from Russia, said they wanted to get married mid-flight because gay marriage is currently illegal in Russia. and more »

  • Russia extends grain export ban - BBC News

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:09 am
    RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyRussia extends grain export banBBC NewsRussia will consider lifting its grain export ban only after the next year's harvest has been reaped, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said. Russia Announces Exemptions On Grain Export BanRTT NewsRussia Extends Ban on Grain Exports Until 2011ABC NewsThe August 'Revolution'Spero NewsMSN Malaysia News -MSN Philippines News -The Moscow Newsall 247 news articles »

  • Spanish arrest over deadly Russia nightclub blaze - BBC News

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:18 am
    Spanish arrest over deadly Russia nightclub blazeBBC News"He left Russia to try to avoid the possible sentence of 10 years in prison, and was found by Spanish police in Barcelona," the police said in a statement and more »
 
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    World news: Russia | guardian.co.uk

  • Mystery over Russian general found dead on Turkish beach

    Luke Harding
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:33 am
    Russian media question official version of death of Yuri Ivanov, that he died going for a swimA mysterious accident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service had been murdered.The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and was discovered by Turkish villagers in the province of Hatay, Turkish newspapers reported today. Reports suggest that he was quietly buried in Moscow over the weekend.Ivanov was the…

  • Lib Dem MP's Russian links questioned after aide 'interrogated by MI5'

    Luke Harding
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:50 pm
    Mike Hancock dismisses as 'rubbish' claims about his parliamentary assistant and Russian intelligenceThe Russian links of Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock are under the spotlight after questions were raised about the extent to which he has in effect acted as a lobbyist for the Kremlin in the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe.Colleagues from the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly said they were so concerned about the MP's pro-Russian views that they warned then Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy that the party might be plunged into scandal, although Hancock says that Kennedy dismissed the…

  • Scores detained by police at anti-Kremlin protests

    31 Aug 2010 | 11:55 am
    Protests against alleged erosion of Article 31 of Russia's constitution, which guarantees the right to free assembly, take place on the 31st of each monthPolice detained more than 130 people, including prominent opponents of prime minister Vladimir Putin, at anti-Kremlin protests, after Putin said demonstrators without permits could expect harsh treatment. In Moscow police held opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and dozens of others who gathered in Triumph Square, declared off-limits last week. About 70 people were detained in Moscow and a similar number in St Petersburg. Activists have been…

  • Austrian conference hosts 'politicians versus journalists' debate

    Roy Greenslade
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:27 am
    ALPBACH, Austria: I am interrupting my blog holiday to report on a session of a conference here organised by the International Press Institute at the European Forum Alpbach 2010. It didn't matter to us panellists that the question under discussion - "Politicians construct and journalists search for reality?" - was a statement rather than a question. We knew well enough that we were being asked which really constructs reality for the public they claim to serve? In order to do that, as the moderator, Michael Prüller, deputy editor-in-chief of Vienna's Die Presse, explained at the outset, it…

  • The Russian protesters who won't give up

    Luke Harding
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:00 pm
    The 31ers are making their protest global after being fenced out of a Moscow squareFor the Kremlin it has become something of an embarrassment. On the 31st of the month, a group of noisy protesters gather in downtown Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square. They shout slogans against Vladimir Putin and his regime. The 31ers, as they are known, are seeking to defend Russia's much-abused constitution and in particular article 31 – meant to guarantee freedom of assembly.Over this year Moscow's city government has devised various tactics to stop these rallies from taking place, ranging from the brutal to…
 
 
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    Russian Athletics: News

  • Dmitry Medvedev meets with Russian national youth team

    30 Aug 2010 | 9:28 pm
    Russian Athletics News. Dmitry Medvedev met with medal winners from the Russian national youth team that took part in the first Youth Olympics

  • Abakumova and Nazarova win in Ljubljana

    30 Aug 2010 | 11:52 am
    Russian Athletics News. Mariya Abakumova won the women’s javelin throw at the Atletski miting Ljubljana 2010 held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She achieved 64,38m

  • Rybakov, Firova and Lysenko win in Rieti

    30 Aug 2010 | 2:18 am
    Russian Athletics News. Tatyana Lysenko won the women’s hammer throw at the Rieti meeting held in Italy. She achieved 74,80m

  • Znamensky Memorial in 2011 IAAF World Challenge

    30 Aug 2010 | 1:55 am
    Russian Athletics News. The Znamensky Memorial meeting was included in the 2011 IAAF World Challenge. The meeting will be held for the 53rd time on 3 July in Zhukovskiy, Moscow oblast

  • Russians in Team Europe

    30 Aug 2010 | 1:38 am
    Russian Athletics News. Olympic medalist Mariya Abakumova has been asked to compete for the Team Europe at the IAAF / VTB Bank Continental Cup to be held in Split, Croatia, on 4-5 September
 
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  • U.S. Open- Day 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:48 pm
    NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: Mikhail Youzhny of Russia looks on against Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan during his men's singles first round match on day th...

  • U.S. Open- Day 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:28 pm
    NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: Mikhail Youzhny of Russia serves against Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan during his men's singles first round match on day thre...

  • U.S. Open- Day 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:16 pm
    NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: Mikhail Youzhny of Russia returns a shot against Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan during his men's singles first round match on ...

  • U.S. Open- Day 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:16 pm
    NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: Mikhail Youzhny of Russia returns a shot against Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan during his men's singles first round match on ...

  • U.S. Open- Day 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:43 pm
    NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: Elena Dementieva of Russia hits a return against Sybille Bammer of Austria during her second round women's singles match on ...
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  • So Similar, But So Different

    Sometimes only one figure may mean an absolutely different destiny! See yourself. read more..

  • Playing Cards - Ukrainian Style

    A Ukrainian artist Vladislav Erko has made a unique pack of cards with authentic Ukrainian queens-witches and jacks-hetmans. Some critics say that they have been influenced by the books of Paulo Coelho, because Erko had been the artist who illustrated them too. read more..

  • Residential Complexes of Moscow

    Look at the Moscow's outskirts and their residential compounds inside this post. read more..

  • Ads On the Asphalt

    Due to morbid predilection of the Moscow owners of small business to mark their establishments with paint on the asphalt, now the entire capital of Russia, especially its center, looks spotty. However, they don't do it openly, cause it's forbidden, they take a bottomless package, hide a spray and a stencil inside and, if necessary, they paint right in a package. read more..

  • Life In the Provinces

    Here is a collection of impressive black and white photographs of Emil Gataullin.read more..
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    Siberian Light

  • Mysterious death of Russian Spy Chief

    Andy
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    Clearly it’s “Russian spies in the news” week. After revelations that a British MP’s Russian aide may be (but almost certainly isn’t) a Russian spy, we now hear that one of Russia’s top spies was found dead a couple of weeks ago, washed up on a Turkish beach. Major-General Yuri Ivanov was Deputy Head of the GRU (Russian military intelligence), and had been visiting Syria, to inspect the construction of the Tartus Russian Naval base – the only Russian military base outside of the Former Soviet Union. From there, it’s not clear what happened to…

  • More on British MP’s Russian aide spy scandal

    Andy
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:36 am
    A couple of days ago I reported that a Russian British MP’s aide is allegedly under investigation by MI5. The story about Katia Zatuliveter, initially broken by the Times,  has now been picked up slightly more widely, and more details are emerging. The Guardian newspaper are now reporting that Mike Hancock, the MP she works for, is not only Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Russia, but is seen as being so pro-Russia that he’s almost in the Kremlin’s pocket.  In their own words, he’s been so pro-Russian that questions have been raised “about the…

  • Russian working in UK parliament thought spy by MI5?

    Andy
    29 Aug 2010 | 3:21 am
    British newspaper The Times is today reporting that a Russian citizen who works as an aide to a British MP is being investigated by intelligence agency MI5. Annoyingly, the story is behind the Times’ firewall (you can access it here if you are a subscriber), and they’re the only newspaper to pick up the story so far.  According to the Times, Katia Zatuliveter is an assistant working for Mike Hancock, a Liberal Democrat MP (so now a member of the Government) who has served for many years on the Defence Select Committee. The source for the story seems to have been a…

  • Russia Blog Roundup – 27 August 2010

    Andy
    26 Aug 2010 | 11:49 pm
    Things have been pretty quiet the past week or so on the Russia blog front.  Is everyone outside enjoying the cooler, fresher Moscow? A Good Treaty translates “Oleg Kashin’s ‘A Translation from Prussian’”, an analysis of the recent change of Governor in Kaliningrad. David Roberts asks the 200 Rouble Question – Why is it «двести» and not «дваста»? Medvedev meets Bono, but Putin goes whale hunting and upstages them both.  Coupled with the revelations that Putin’s staff earn more than Medvedev’s staff, it’s clear who’s…

  • Dead British Spy: The Russian Connection

    Andy
    26 Aug 2010 | 12:10 pm
    When an employee of British spy agency MI6 is found dead, packed in a holdall in his bathtub, everyone’s going to speculate about which other intelligence agency was to blame. And, naturally, there’s a Russian link to the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams.  Sort of. It turns out that the flat Williams lived, and died, in was owned by a company called “New Rodina”.  Registered in the Virgin Islands, everyone initially thought that New Rodina must be a Russian company.  And, given that Russians are well known in the British press as ruthless killers (see: any…
 
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    Russian Navy Blog

  • Ballad of the BDRM

    10 Aug 2010 | 2:30 pm
    If the Strategic Rocket Forces can have their own anthem, and you can drink to Russian gas, why not get out your guitar for the SS-N-23 Sineva?

  • Now begrudgingly on Twitter

    6 Aug 2010 | 2:15 pm
    I've always thought Twitter was pretty stupid. Now it looks like I'll be issuing or Tweets or Twits or whatever the hell you call it with the rest of ya.

  • Test

    2 Aug 2010 | 3:54 pm
    I'm at PD passing very close astern....

  • Pic of the day

    25 May 2010 | 5:02 pm
    Moskva takes a shot line from the Petr Velikiy, somewhere in the Indian Ocean a couple of weeks ago.

  • I don't think the Russians are going to reconstitute their rail mobile ICBM force anytime this century

    24 May 2010 | 5:23 pm
    Questions about rail-mobile missiles started to pop up a few days ago. I haven't heard about "reloads", though, until I saw a piece by Christopher Ford, currently a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Entitled "Does 'New START' Fumble Reloads and Rail-mobile ICBMs" the piece conveniently summarizes the arguments and "frets about" scenarios in which "SS-25-style treaty-accountable deployed ICBM launcher could be accompanied by one or more nuclear-armed reload missiles and any necessary reload vehicles,"or, even worse, "unlimited numbers of rail-mobile launchers deployed with nuclear-armed…
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    Timothy Post

  • We’re not making pancakes!

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:01 pm
      Due to the seemingly insurmountable language barrier that the Russian language presents, it is almost impossible for Westerners to grasp the nuance and subtlety of Vladimir Putin. Love him or hate him, VVP is one of the most fascinating men of our time. Thanks to my friend Joera Mulders' efforts we have an amazing translation of an interview (click link) between VVP and the Kommersant journalist, Andrei Kolesnikov, as they drive together in a canary yellow Lada along the Khabarovsk to Chita highway. ***************  Here is what Joera has to say in his introduction:…

  • New Pokupanda Design

    31 Aug 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Here's a quick sneak peek at the redesign of our Pokupanda.ru front page. As always, the Ruport Agency did an amazing job and proves once again why it's one of the very best creative agencies in Krasnodar. Let me know what you think and what further changes you'd make to the design.     Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • AngelConf 2010

    31 Aug 2010 | 3:37 am
    via angelconf2010.posterous.com Great to see that Y Combinator has chosen Posterous as their platform of choice for AngelConf 2010. We've been doing a ton of thinking and research in preparation for launching a blog.runetlabs.com weblog and are leaning heavily towards Posterous. While I really want to like Tumblr, its interface remains clunky and not intuitive. I have also played around a ton with Virb.com and even though it shows promise, it's still way too early to commit to it. I know Wordpress is everyone's default website, CMS, blogging platform. Trust me, I have been using Wordpress…

  • Business Card Manager + Evernote

    28 Aug 2010 | 10:15 am
    via blog.evernote.com Are you a GTD geek? Do you believe that it is, by definition, impossible to be too organized? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you'll be pumped to check out this this new iPhone app, which lets you take a photo of a paper-based business card (gasp) and then import it into Evernote and then to your contact manager without ever putting down you grande Cafe Latte. Too good to be true? Nope!! Just watch this video for proof. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Wyclef Jean Says He Will Run for President of Haiti

    4 Aug 2010 | 9:02 pm
    via time.com Good for Wyclef, good for Haiti, and great for Bill "Pass the sugar... honey" Clinton!!!  Can you imagine the babes that Wyclef is going to appoint to his cabinet? It'll make Saakashvili look like a rank amateur. Remember the bruhaha over the appointment of Georgian Economic Development Minister Vera Kobalia (Warning: only click if you want to see hot Slavic chicks)? Bill: "Ah, Hilary, the good people of Haiti need me in these desperate times. I promise to be back in Chappaqua by Christmas." Hilary: Fine Bill. Just use a Dominican this time. You want…
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    White Sun of the Desert

  • Crane

    tnewman
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:05 pm

  • Geneva

    tnewman
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:19 am

  • Blogging Stuff

    tnewman
    28 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    Once again, apologies for the interruption in service.  It appears that this blog, which recently saw its 250,000th visitor, has outgrown the hosting company, who I have been with for 10 years.  So I’ve moved to another host, hopefully one a bit more able to deal with the traffic (which is mostly spambots) which my blog attracts. There might not be much blogging going on here for a while, I am shortly due to depart for Nigeria and here is an awful lot to organise.  However, I will certainly be doing plenty of blogging once I get there.  Apparently, you could run a healthy blog…

  • Security Advice

    tnewman
    21 Aug 2010 | 9:19 pm
    As received from my new employer regarding travel in Nigeria: In case of danger, stay in your car, ask your driver not to run away and give immediately what you are asked for (have always about 5.000 Naira [$30] with you to give).

  • Business as Usual in Russia’s Oil and Gas Sector

    tnewman
    17 Aug 2010 | 11:59 pm
    A series of articles in Upstream Online illustrate well the mentality of those attempting to run Russia’s oil and gas industry.  First up is a report of yet more “tough talk” from Igor Sechin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and chairman of Rosneft.  Unfortunately, “tough talk” – for which read macho posturing and anti-foreign idiocy – is pretty much all we ever get from Sechin, who – not for the first time – could probably do with reading up on how businesses operate in the world outside Russia’s borders (he’s not the…
 
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    La Russophobe

  • September 3, 2010 — Contents

    larussophobe
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:01 am
    Former first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov under arrest in Moscow on August 31 for the crime of distributing his book, critical of the Putin regime, in public FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3 CONTENTS (1)  EDITORIAL:  Putin Drowns in his own Sewage (2)  EDITORIAL:  Another Day, Another Nemtsov Arrest (3)  Putin openly Threatens Peaceful Protesters with Violence (4)  Amsterdam interviews Ponomarev (5)  The Collapse of the “Russian NATO” (6)  CARTOON:  Putin doesn’t need Eyes NOTE:  LR’s translation of the third Nemtsov white paper is being…

  • EDITORIAL: Putin is Drowning in his own Sewage

    larussophobe
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:57 am
    EDITORIAL Putin is Drowning in his own Sewage For the Russian Kremlin to balance its annual budget this year, the price of crude oil must average $123 per barrel. It’s an astounding fact.  No other member of the G-8, and no member of BRIC, depends for budget solvency on the price of a commodity which is set abroad. Russia is, quite simply, not its own nation. But there’s an even more horrifying reality for Vladimir Putin to face:  So far this year, the price of crude oil has actually averaged $78 per barrel — and just $75 per barrel this month.  That’s a whopping…

  • EDITORIAL: Another Day, Another Nemtsov Arrest

    larussophobe
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:17 am
    EDITORIAL Another Day, Another Nemtsov Arrest Once again last Tuesday, the former first deputy prime minister of Russia was arrested and accused of “provocation” by the Putin Kremlin for daring to challenge its authority. Before we discuss the latest incidence of jaw-dropping barbarism from the Putin Kremlin, though, let’s take a moment to reflect on amazing photograph shown above, an image captured by a Novaya Gazeta photographer at the scene of the crime.  It ought to strike sheer terror into the hearts of the loathsome reptiles within the Moscow Kremlin. In the photo,…

  • Putin openly Threatens Peaceful Protesters with Violence

    larussophobe
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:56 am
    So-called law enforcement officers following Vladimir Putin's advice in Moscow on August 31 Oleg Kozlovsky, writing on the Huffington Post, reveals how Vladimir Putin has declared open, violent war against peaceful protesters (just for daring to march without a license, not for defying an order to disperse) and his own presidency-for-life: Today’s Kommersant publishes a fresh interview with Vladimir Putin, where the dictator comments on opposition rallies: Look, all our opponents support a Rechtsstaat. What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law. What does the…

  • Amsterdam interviews Ponomarev

    larussophobe
    31 Aug 2010 | 2:32 am
    Robert Amsterdam interviews Lev Ponomarev: Russia-watchers are no doubt aware of the recent arrest of my good friend Lev Ponomarev. Lev is one of the leading lights of the Russian human rights movement, part of the original perestroika-era generation of human rights advocates whose courageous efforts ensured that democratic reforms were an integral part of the changes that followed the collapse of communism. These reforms have been steadily and vigorously eroded over the past decade under Vladimir Putin. Several days ago, for example, Lev was arrested in Moscow on Flag Day – while…
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    Russia Blog

  • Medvedev and Bono Meet in Sochi

    25 Aug 2010 | 12:55 am
    U2 is visiting Russia as part of its 360 World Tour. Bono, using the opportunity, got to visit with Dmitry Medvedev in the president's private residence in Sochi, where Winter Olympic Games 2014 will take place. As the result of the high-profile meetings, aside from an agreement to fight AIDS, Russian President Medvedev and Irish Singer Bono concluded that they both love Led Zeppelin. Enjoy the photos of Bono's visit at Medvedev's dacha in Sochi in the extended post.

  • Chechen Terrorist Trained and Studied in Pakistan, Received Money from Jordan

    21 Aug 2010 | 8:54 pm
    Russian Special Forces in a gunfight with Mr. Abdullah and his friends Today, in Dagestan--that neighbors with Chechnya--one of the masterminds of the Moscow subway attacks Mr. Vagabov was killed together with his gang. The intelligence found out some very interesting facts about Mr. Vagabov, who was self-renamed and crazy-islamic-jihadists-blessed as Amir Abdullah. Mr. Amir Abdullah received his college education in Karachi, and proceeded to training in terrorists camps in Pakistan. When a Jordanian Doctor Muhammad was killed in 2009, Amir Abdullah married the widow, former Mrs. Muhammad.

  • American Teenagers Have Different Mindset About Russia

    20 Aug 2010 | 9:07 pm
    In the recent study in Milwaukee, students entering college this fall filled out a survey that showed how different their view of the world is from the one of their parents. Aside from minor role of Clint Eastwood in their lives, the class of 2014 included in the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List the fact that Americans plus Russians means people of the two nations living together in outer space. "# 43: Russians and Americans have always been living together in space." After all, there is hope! My wish for these kids is to graduate with good grades and find their way to…

  • Russia Blog Featured in an iPhone Game

    17 Aug 2010 | 12:25 am
    "Our game "RussPack" has finally been released!" e-mailed me one of the game's developers who got in touch with us earlier this year regarding the photo of St. Basil's cathedral that I took in Moscow in 2008. The game software was developed by two Russian engineers. We congratulate the World's Epsilon Enterprises, Inc. for their timely release, and hope that iPhone users around the world get to enjoy the game.

  • NASA Space Photos: Russia Still Burning

    15 Aug 2010 | 12:29 am
    CNN reports that smoke clouds, which have become a serious health hazard, can clearly been seen on the satellite images, blanketing large swaths of the country. The smoke is back in Moscow, which hasn't seen rain or cool weather in two months. The promised departure of heat meant only the drop in temperatures from 100-115 F down to 90-95 F. The fires have killed more than 50 people, left dozens hospitalized, and thousands homeless, according to Russia's health and social development ministry. "Russia is grateful to the United States over the assistance in tackling the wildfires raging across…
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    Windows to Russia

  • Medvedev Says: No threat of food deficit in Russia…

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:47 am
    Medvedev Checking Food Prices... There is no threat of a food deficit in Russia despite the recent drought, The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said during a meeting of the State Council on domestic food market policies in Saratov (Volga region). Medvedev promised to get control of speculative food prices and added that even according to the most pessimistic forecasts, Russia’s grain harvest this year is expected at no less than 60 million tons, including carryover stocks of 21-25 million tons. “This is more than enough to meet our demands in food and feed grain”, Mr. Medvedev…

  • Russia Views Sanctions against Iran as Ineffective …

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:27 am
    TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia dismissed the effectiveness of sanctions against Iran, stressing that a systemic solution is needed to settle Tehran‘s standoff with the West over the country’s nuclear program. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that sanctions do not normally produce the desired results. “The approach to its solution [Iranian nuclear problem] must be systemic and necessarily based on international law,” Lavrov said. He said that the talks’ process requires stimulation. Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for…

  • I See Grain! Do You See Grain? Yup…

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 2:15 am
    Yes, There is Grain… Yesterday I wrote an article about: In Russia Grain Speculators Just Plain “Suck”… This article expressed that Russia was not as short on grain as the underlining scum tried to make the world believe… Well today Russia has a new thought going: RBC: Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on introducing several exceptions to the temporary ban on grain exports from August 15 to December 31, 2010. According to the document, wheat, meslin, barley, rye, corn, and wheat flour can be exported for the purposes of fulfilling international agreements, ensuring Russian…

  • Simply News From Russia… (9/02/2010)

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:59 am
    So There is Wheat… Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on introducing several exceptions to the temporary ban on grain exports from August 15 to December 31, 2010. According to the document, wheat, meslin, barley, rye, corn, and wheat flour can be exported for the purposes of fulfilling international agreements, ensuring Russian entities’ operations in Spitsbergen and Baikonur (Kazakhstan), and also as part of international humanitarian efforts. More… Gazprom’s net profit under IFRS jumped nearly three times to RUB 336.849bn (approx. USD 10.94bn)…

  • Russia Today in Spanish in DC…

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:54 pm
    Russia Today Logo… Russia‘s Russia Today news channel is launching a new  24/7 Spanish broadcast in Washington DC on the first of Sept… The channel’s  editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan  is sure the new service will enjoy the same demand as the English-language broadcasting launched in 2009.This year it was nominated for the British Broadcast Digital Awards prize . Now that is an interesting tidbit of news. Who woulda thunk that a Russian news organization would be in Spanish in America… Hummm, shows how big the Mexican population is getting? Windows to…
 
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    Scraps of Moscow

  • Reacting to Medvedev's visit to Abkhazia - and to the S-300 deployment

    11 Aug 2010 | 2:36 pm
     [image source] The article below is a good read, and this RT press review of coverage of Medvedev's visit to Abkhazia is also worth checking out if you are interested in how this story played.  Neither takes into account today's news about Russia deploying an S-300 air defense system in Abkhazia, which has the Georgians up in arms and has received more coverage than I think it merits - after all, the State Dept claims they've known the Russians have had this system up and running there for the past two years... Kommersant, August 9, 2010 [translation from JRL]Report by Zaur…

  • The hardy and pernicious myth of Western designs on Russia

    11 Aug 2010 | 1:32 pm
    Pundit Sees Attempts to Incite Anti-Western Sentiment as Threat to Russia ItselfNezavisimaya Gazeta [translation from JRL]August 4, 2010Article by Georgiy Mirskiy: "Patriots' Fears -- West Not At All Interested in Weakening Russia"[Institute of World Economy and International Relations]"People want to weaken Russia ... what do you mean weaken it - they want to crush, dismember, subordinate it..." Who among us has not heard such cries? Journalists, TV and radio commentators, parliamentarians, generals, and professors compete with one another in their attempts to convince the Russian people…

  • "Black PR" lives...

    8 Aug 2010 | 8:03 am
    The article below reminded me of how widespread the concept of "black propaganda" or "black PR" is in Russian political life (and in the competitive world of business as well).  The term is sort of a catch-all for any kind of "dirty" campaign tactics, from American-style opposition research, "dirty tricks" and negative campaigning to mud-slinging, sabotage and the dispensing of kompromat.  Anyway, I found more illustrations for a post on this topic than I expected - all of the images here are book covers, which suggest that fictional accounts of and instructions related to "black…

  • Twittering while Russia burns

    6 Aug 2010 | 11:00 am
    It was interesting to see the translated article below appear in JRL on the same day as Svetlana Babaeva's piece appeared dismissing the political impact of social networking and new media in Russia ("nothing more than banal social chatter"; "inconsequential prattle").  My value add in the article below is to link to the Twitterings of these government luminaries (other than Medvedev, since I can't be fussed to figure out which is the real one, and Astakhov, since I couldn't locate his using any of the obvious search terms) - and to point out that there is an aggregator-type Twitter…

  • More on "peacekeepers" vs. "occupiers"

    4 Aug 2010 | 2:32 pm
    [image source] GUAM appears to be DOA, of course, but the article below suggests some degree of coordination between MD and GE's Russia policies.  I'm not sure I buy it, particularly asI think the article overstates Acting President Ghimpu's influence on MD foreign policy.And is wanting Russian troops to leave territory one claims as its own sufficiently strangeof a policy preference as to suggest that it must be the result of a coordinated campaign? Nezavisimaya Gazeta [translation courtesy of JRL]August 2, 2010KISHINEV AND TBILISI NEVER NOTICED MOSCOW'S PROTESTSMoldova and…
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  • Falling for the Sideshow? The Real Battle is Far from the Barricades

    Vadim Nikitin
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:20 pm
    The big news from Russia has been yet another series of arrests at an opposition rally. Nemtsov and Limonov were predictably hauled off while astute bloggers dissected Putin’s latest macho threat that unauthorised protesters would be hit upside the head with a truncheon. Yet behind these political theatrics, another much less boisterous yet much more important conflict is being meticulously played out. One whose outcome may do more to shape Russia’s -and Putin’s- future. This is the conflict between court oligarchs and rival shareholders Potanin and Deripaska over the…

  • When ‘Living Dangerously’ Is A Life Sentence, Not a Lifestyle Choice

    Vadim Nikitin
    25 Aug 2010 | 4:04 pm
    Most people would find it hard to upstage a meeting between the head of a giant nuclear power and one of the world’s most high profile rock stars. But most people are not Putin (thank God!?). By single-handedly  harpooning a whale while shouting “Living in general is dangerous!”, the Prime Minister not only made Medvedev’s tea with Bono look positively Austenesque, but even settled an old score with Captain Ahab. The point of the stunt was clear: for all his Deep Purple fandom, Medvedev does not live dangerously. Bono at least salvaged some machismo by even accepting…

  • Will James Cameron Save Baikal?

    Vadim Nikitin
    16 Aug 2010 | 9:11 pm
    To freshen up after saving the Amazon from the construction of the world’s largest dam and then helping beat the Gulf oil spill, Avatar director James Cameron decided to relax in an unusual setting today: by celebrating his birthday in a submarine at the bottom of Lake Baikal. While Cameron’s connection to Baikal so far stems mainly from his interest in deep sea underwater cinematography, the lake could be an equally good fit for his passionate environmental activism.  Like the amazon basin, it is a unique depository of biodiversity; and like the amazon, it is at huge risk of…

  • Why the Fires Won’t Bring Political Change

    Vadim Nikitin
    11 Aug 2010 | 8:17 pm
    Luzhkov, an avid beekeeper, had ordered his prize-winning hives to be evacuated away from the smog. All the while, he has refused to declare a state of emergency for Moscow’s human inhabitants. This is just one stark example of government callousness and incompetence  in the face of the fires that led Simon Schuster to ask, in today’s Time article: ‘Will the Wildfires Stoke Political Change in Russia?’. Sure, the people are seething with anger at ruling United Russia, and some regional deputies, such as Volgograd’s Vladimir Dvuzhilov, have ripped up their party…

  • Russia’s Fire-Proof Politicians

    Vadim Nikitin
    10 Aug 2010 | 4:50 pm
    Surprise! Russia’s leaders are surviving the wildfires much more comfortably than their beleaguered constituents, up to 700 of whom are dying per day in Moscow alone. Indeed, as the flames threaten to kill up to 15000, cost $15 billion worth of GDP and even turn radioactive (!!!), some things they don’t seem to threaten are the careers of those responsible for the poor preparation and response. This despite the fact that Medvedev’s approval ratings plummeted to 38% in the last month and Putin’s have fallen as precipitately as the water he’s been dropping from the…
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    From Russia with Love

  • It's a New Hip, Officer, Not a Weapon

    23 Aug 2010 | 7:07 am
    Dear Blog-reading Friends,Glory be ~ it's been waaay too long since I've posted regularly! A blog should be updated weekly, you know, that's the rule of thumb. Unless. . . unless ~ and I'm making this part up ~ unless a person is recovering from hip replacement surgery. Which I AM! And dear reader, you've been waiting oh-so-patiently for the scintillating details (as if) and I thank you a

  • Soviets Send Dogs into Space: Fifty Years Ago Today

    19 Aug 2010 | 6:44 am
    On this day in 1960, Belka and Strelka ~ that is Whitey and Arrow ~ were sent into orbit as the first Soviet space travelers to return safely to earth. Another story entirely is how one of Strelka's descendants got into the White House as Caroline Kennedy's pet.Belka and Strelka closely followed in the pawprints of Little Laika, who had made history as the first Soviet space martyr. And then

  • And the Winners Are...!

    13 Jul 2010 | 6:16 am
    We have three winners! (Blog in progress. . . ) Last night, Sergei ~ more about him in a minute ~ drew the names of our winners. A piece of this dinnerware will go to each winner. This pottery is made in the Rostov area and it's shipped across Russia, I'd reckon. . .So here are the prizes: From left, the *Cash Stash* (AKA ash tray), ceramic picture (or spoon rest) and salt dish (or holder of

  • Prizes for You: My Favorite Russian Pottery

    5 Jul 2010 | 8:42 pm
    Dear Blog-reading Friends, Just to thank you for being there, for swinging by and saying preevyet from time to time, brought some little gifts for you back from Russia. Oh, they're just little bitty things, but they're a few of my favorite things. For you. . .and You. . . and YOU!(Click photo to enlarge.) Here are a few pieces I very seriously considered packing. The tea cups and the sugar bowl

  • Boot-sandals: A Trend for You?

    4 Jul 2010 | 10:43 pm
    Are you a fashionista and out there on the leading edge? Are you an early adapter of the latest? Well then, you might be considering a pair of these boot-sandals. They're the hottest thing in Eastern Europe this summer. But who wants hot for the summer? Well anyway, admittedly, I might be missing something. But the rationale for this sort of footwear escapes me. If you're a trail blazer of
 
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    The Last Ditch

  • Thoughts about silence

    Tom Paine
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:09 pm
    After more than five years of regular, wordy posting, this blog has been on a hiatus for a few weeks. It began because of a personal problem (now happily resolved, I hope), but perhaps it continued for other reasons. To be honest, my feelings were mixed. I missed the social...

  • A toe in the water

    Tom Paine
    6 Aug 2010 | 8:42 am
    How I have missed you, gentle readers. My problem (see last post) is not yet resolved. Perhaps it never will be. But there is hope. Mrs Paine and I are visiting Dublin and looking forward to some time together after many months apart. Mrs P told me a revealing story...
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  • thought for today

    1 Sep 2010 | 8:34 am
    Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett

  • where are our boxes?

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:54 am
    just got a message from a friend.  The guy that was supposed to send out our boxes from Moscow to the US has been in the hospital for the past two weeks.  He was recently diagnosed with diabetes.  We have been told that our things should get shipped out on the 1st of September.  We'll see! Keep us in your prayers. 

  • made it to North Carolina

    28 Aug 2010 | 11:59 am
    The next time we get on a plane, September 6th, we will be on our way to Belize!!  Counting down the days!!

  • thought for today

    25 Aug 2010 | 1:50 pm
    When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.” ~ W. Clement Stone

  • puppies!!

    20 Aug 2010 | 2:57 pm
    Sharon's dog Diamond Girl had her litter last night... 9 pups!  And they are soooo cute!check them out here: http://www.rosehavengoldens.com/pics
 
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    English Russia

  • So Similar, But So Different

    Sometimes only one figure may mean an absolutely different destiny! See yourself. read more..

  • Playing Cards - Ukrainian Style

    A Ukrainian artist Vladislav Erko has made a unique pack of cards with authentic Ukrainian queens-witches and jacks-hetmans. Some critics say that they have been influenced by the books of Paulo Coelho, because Erko had been the artist who illustrated them too. read more..

  • Residential Complexes of Moscow

    Look at the Moscow's outskirts and their residential compounds inside this post. read more..

  • Ads On the Asphalt

    Due to morbid predilection of the Moscow owners of small business to mark their establishments with paint on the asphalt, now the entire capital of Russia, especially its center, looks spotty. However, they don't do it openly, cause it's forbidden, they take a bottomless package, hide a spray and a stencil inside and, if necessary, they paint right in a package. read more..

  • Life In the Provinces

    Here is a collection of impressive black and white photographs of Emil Gataullin.read more..
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