Month: January 2010

“Ukraine’s Naftogaz cannot pay for Russian gas”!



“Ukraine’s Naftogaz cannot pay for Russian gas” – president – RT Top Stories: “Ukraine’s president has said that the country’s gas giant Naftogaz has no money to pay for Russia’s natural gas delivered in December. The sum of the payment comes to $892 million.

Viktor Yushchenko has asked Vladimir Stelmakh, the head of the Ukraine’s national bank (Natsbank), to help solve the problem with paying for the Russian gas.

“Due to a critical situation with the Russian gas payments, I ask the Natsbank board to meet urgently and find the way to solve the problem through the mechanism of repurchase of Ukrainian government securities,” Yushchenko was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying.”

So do we have big issues coming up again on gas delivery to Europe?

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Чёрная молния or Black Lightning – The Trailer for the Movie!




Svetlana and I just went today and saw the new movie Black Lightning! It is a Russian made movie though I did see a connection to Universal Films in the beginning credits.

This movie is about a Volga 21 that has extra ordinary powers. It seems that a group of Russian scientist created (about 30 years ago) this Volga because they thought it would be cool to do? After initial experiment was considered a failure, the lab was closed.
So in a more modern time a group of construction workers discovered the lab under ground and so starts the adventures of a Super Volga 21…
It was a fun and exciting movie and that is all you get to know because you need to go see it when you can!
We really loved it because Svet and I think Volga’s Rock!
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