A Russian Observant Windows…
Immediate Response 2008, joint Georgian-American military exercises, began July 15 at the Georgian Ministry of Defense training center outside Tbilisi, RIA Novosti information agency reports. A total of 1650 soldiers will take part. Besides Georgians and Americans, members of the armed forces of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine will participate. The Georgian Defense Ministry stated in
I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about what I see in the world the last few months. I see a shifting of world power. Not a fast mudslide shift, but a river carving a channel shift. Russia & China have developed stronger ties, partly in the fact that Medvedev is very
RBC, 15.07.2008, London 11:39:34.Evraz Group’s quarterly steel production grew 12.6 percent, from 4.164m tonnes in the second quarter of 2007 to 4.69m tonnes in Q2 2008, the Russian steel and mining company said in a press release today. Pig iron production increased 13.8 percent from 3.188m tonnes to 3.628m tonnes, and rolled products output rose