Rosneft, the Russian oil giant, and BP! Is this an interesting combination that has developed out of the lashing that BP took from the USA over the last oil spill? Could be or could not be. But I do know that it is a big deal and after hearing squeaks at first of discontent from […]
There were two sanctioned rally’s this weekend. (You know a rally that was given approval to be held. What a unique concept…) The first rally to talk about is an opposition organized rally (on Jan. 16th) to protest against the arrests at the opposition meeting at Triumphalnaya Square on December 31, 2010. The rally was […]
Remember when Washington, Tokyo and Seoul (Around the beginning of December 2010) got together in a pow wow and mapped out a plan of action against North Korea and her nuclear ambitions..? So from those talks a trilateral agreement was reached and the United States, Japan and South Korea have been playing a number of […]
As I promised. I will post Wikileaks as I read them and find it interesting… ===================================================== VZCZCXYZ0000 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHRK #0008/01 0231458 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 231458Z JAN 08 FM AMEMBASSY REYKJAVIK TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3542 INFO RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE 0068 RHMFISS/HQ USAFE RAMSTEIN AB GE RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY […]
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the State Duma for ratification the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United States of America on Transit of Weapons, Military Equipment, Military Assets and Personnel via Russian Federation Territory in Connection with Participation by Armed Forces of the United States […]
Once again in Russia we are having the second New Year! It falls on January 14 according to the old Orthodox calendar… This “Old New Year” is celebrated also in Moldavia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and also in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece… Fireworks and lots of booze for the hundredth time this year […]
Russia considers reciprocal START amendments: The Russian State Duma plans to tie the ratification of the START treaty with the US plans to develop the global anti-missile defense and allow Russia to quit the agreement in case such defense starts being developed… Moscow allows rally in memory of slain football fan: The Moscow authorities have […]
I woke up this morning and looked at some mainstream news head lines. It was really very depressing and as you can see from a random selection of just a few titles. It looks like the world is going to end tomorrow. Except with the fact that Obama needs to get busy and raise a […]
Windows to Russia now has gone mobile. We have installed a few weeks ago a mobile browser and we already have 20 new readers from that silent move… I am now posting the first mobile post with this article. This is really cool and now we can post easily on our travels… So if you […]