The never ending story of Americans adopting Russians has been given a slam in the last few days – Sentence for killers of adopted Russian child ‘too lenient’: The 20-year custodial sentences handed down to the U.S. couple who killed their adopted Russian son were too light, Russia’s child rights ombudsman said on Thursday…
Tymoshenko expects guilty verdict soon: Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko expects a guilty verdict by the end of next week in her trial on abuse of office charges, she said on Thursday. Okay – well she is guilty and she knows it. But it may be that she is being tried for all the wrong reasons and that is what makes it wrong…
Russian gas turbine locomotive sets 16,000- ton record: A new world record was set at Shcherbinka outside Moscow on September 7 as the world’s latest experimental gas turbine locomotives, the GT-1, hauled 170 freight cars weighing a total of 16,000 metric tons. This milestone took place at the All Russia Railway Research Institute’s experimental ring. Spectators included visitors from the III International Rail Salon EXPO 1520 that kicked off earlier in the day…
Russia should have called for a balanced approach on Libya also – Russia calls for balanced approach to Syria: Russia is ready to support various approaches to resolving the situation in Syria, but they should not be based on a unilateral condemnation of the Syrian authorities’ response to the popular uprising, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Euronews…
No direct Putin-U.K. contact ‘for 4 years’: There has been no direct contact between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.K. ministers or diplomats since 2007, the BBC said on Friday, citing Whitehall officials. Now they worry! It looks like Putin will become president of Russia again and now they are worried. They should be…
China, Russia hold training maneuvers on Amur River: On Sept. 8, Russian and Chinese rescuers practiced rescuing people in distress, as well as cleaning up oil spills and put out fires on vessels…
Libyan scenario in Syria unacceptable: UN Resolution 1973 was exceeded in Libya, and Russia does not want similar scenario to unfold in Syria, Dmitry Medvedev told the Euronews TV Channel after the Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavl. Okay once again this should not have happened in Libya and anyone with half a brain cell saw it coming…
No more Moscow money for Black Sea Fleet: Moscow authorities have pulled the plug on their program of financing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, saying the millions of dollars Moscow donates are being squandered. Now what is Moscow money doing going to the Black Sea Fleet in the first place. I would say Moscow needs the money herself…
Interesting day in the news for Russia!
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PS: What I left out of this news assortment is the fact that the Russian media is slamming America right now. I find it interesting as we come up on 9-11 in America. I then realized that America messed up big time because Russia was the first to extend a helping hand over 9-11. Putin was the first official in the world to call about the tragedy. There was a beautiful monument that was made for America and it was shoved aside like a bad egg. Lots of things happened and it was all in the face of a Russia that offered and opened arms. The USA missed the opportunity of a lifetime to really do a reset over the 9-11 tragedy and then many years later faked a reset. Russians have woke up to the American way of playing games and it is starting to show…