A country of cyborg and avatars: As a rule, Russians don’t really like to plan ahead. An innocent question like “what do you plan to do this summer?” tends to provoke frank bewilderment. Most likely, the person asked will shrug his shoulders philosophically and say: “We’ll see what happens.” The last 20 years in Russia […]
If you follow Windows to Russia then you know that I have lots of articles about Viktor Bout. I think he is being held for information purposes. The US government knows that as slow as the judicial system is in America, that they have plenty of time to interrogate him. When he is finally released […]
One of the buzz words recently has been “reorientation,” but it is a misnomer. Russia cares for its clients and is most unlikely to go against the interests of its key customers – the European Union and European consumers. Russia exports mind-boggling amounts of energy to the EU – something like 5.5% to 6% of […]
Give you something from the Western press to chew on today… Moscow: By Fred Weir Russia emerges as Europe’s most God-believing nation: Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history’s most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in God – more than in any other European country – according […]
Nevertheless, the study of the facts leads {assert that the “revolution” Libyan is neither democratic nor spontaneous. This is an armed uprising of the party east of the country in a spirit of revenge and dissent, which attempts to register in the dynamics of “spring” Arabic, which he does not report. The Libyan movement can […]