A Russian Observant Windows…
Ten years ago on November 20, 1998 a Russian Proton rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Its mission was to put the first piece of the International Space Station (ISS) into orbit – a 12.5 metre, 19.3 tonne Zarya module. It was the first step for mankind’s most daring space project. (Link)
I posted the other day about Belarus was going to buy all oil and gas from Russia in Rubles, no Dollars. Today The CIS countries (Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) are getting the formalities out of the way to start making the Russian Ruble a International currency.
parliamentary republic, and honestly speaking, I think Russia must never become a parliamentary republic, which would be the death of us.” Medvedev said, however, that the constitutional amendments would strengthen the powers of the lower house of parliament, giving the State Duma additional levers to oversee ministerial decision-making. Medvedev said the inviolability of people’s rights
an conflict. He told journalists that the organization was expected to make a statement on the conflict during a session today. It is important that NATO PA’s opinions and estimates are based on the whole picture, Zavarzin maintained, rather than only on information provided by Georgia. The republic’s propaganda machine is striving to make an
ANKARA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian defense minister warned on Tuesday that Georgia’s military buildup and drive to join NATO could cause a conflict worse than the five-day war over South Ossetia in August. (Rest of Article: Link)
BERLIN, November 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has returned six fourteenth-century stained glass windows that were among objects seized by Soviet troops during WWII to a church in Germany. In 2002, Russia returned 111 stained glass windows to St. Mary’s Church, Marienkirche, in Frankfurt-upon-Oder. They had earlier been stored in the Hermitage museum in Russia’s
Bored? Well read this…… Geography: Russia is the largest country in the world, covering 17.1 million square kilometer. Extending nearly halfway around the northern hemisphere and covering much of eastern and north-eastern Europe as well as the whole of northern Asia, Russia has a maximum east-west extent, along the Arctic Circle, of some 7,700 kilometers
terms of the president and the lower chamber of parliament. The changes were easily passed by 388 deputies voting for it and 58 against. RBC, 14.11.2008, Moscow 12:51:37.Russia is expected to see the creation of a new consultative body to unite the majority of Russia’s television market participants prior to the general transfer to digital