Year: 2008

Hello,

Glad they are doing this little bit of law adjustment….
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A draft law will be introduced into the Russian State Duma today to allow Russians to use the national flag for “unofficial purposes.” The bill originated with the United Russia Party, which discovered that soccer fans are breaking the law when they wave the Russian flag in stadiums and on the street and paint their faces with the tricolor, which can be construed as its desecration. Current legislation allows for the use of the flag only in official contexts. Therefore, chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation Vladimir Pligin and chairman of the Committee on Civil Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov have proposed amendments to the constitutional law “On the State Flag of the Russian Federation.” Link
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The last few days there has been Russian flags everywhere. On the ground, on cars, being drug by cars, being worn by people & multiple of other things done to the flag.

Russians are having a blast with the national pride over Football. Glad to see that the Kremlin will not persecute the fans….. (Russia is Changing) 🙂

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

RBC, 25.06.2008, Moscow 09:32:22.Russia does not rule out that Lithuania and the USA could be engaged in unofficial talks to deploy missile defense systems in the Baltic state, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was cited by the Vesti channel as saying. This is partly confirmed by the fact that Russia has not yet received any official response from the USA to its query regarding possible negotiations with Lithuania. However, the US has said that as the talks with Poland were progressing slowly, it was considering some other options. According to Lavrov, Russia is concerned with the missile defense system in Eastern Europe as a whole, rather than in Lithuania in particular.

RBC, 24.06.2008, Moscow 19:35:44.Russia could set its export duty on oil at $490-$495 per tonne in August 2008, RBC was told by the head of the Russian Financial Ministry’s customs payments department, Alexander Sakovich. Therefore, according to the official’s projections, the duty on light refined oil products will amount to about $340 per tonne, and $185 per tonne on heavy oil products. This forecast is feasible if the average Urals crude oil price fluctuates between $122 and $1223 per barrel for the remainder of the monitoring period (until the end of June). The price of Urals stood at $105-$113 per barrel during the previous monitoring period (before the June-July duty was set).

RBC, 24.06.2008, Moscow 17:40:10.During today’s budget committee meeting, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin set the objective of bringing the rate of inflation down to one-digit figures over the next few years. The budget, as one of the key instruments for achieving macroeconomic stability, is essential for attaining this goal, Putin noted. Amid growing uncertainty in the global economy, Russia must be ready for any development, negative or positive, on foreign markets, the PM stressed. He added that Russia’s budget policy needed to be aimed at resolving the country’s social and economic problems.

RBC, 24.06.2008, Moscow 11:59:10.Gazprom is looking into the possibility of constructing a liquefied natural gas plant and a gas and chemical complex in Primorsky Krai, the energy holding said in a statement prepared for a press conference by Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee. The projects could be made feasible by the potential creation of a gas transportation system consisting of the Sakhalin-Vladivostok-Yakutia and the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipelines.

Hello,

One thing I see as “Oil the King” falls shorter in supply, as we run out, the usage of its little brother “Gas” is becoming the Prince of the energy industry.
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Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has proposed to Gazprom that it supply natural gas to the Israeli market. By 2010, the Israeli government estimates, consumption of natural gas will rise to 8 billion cu. m. from 800 million cu. m. last year. The contract could help Gazprom fill the Blue Stream pipeline, but infrastructure would have to be extended from Turkey to Israel. Kommersant
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Russia has lots & lots & lots & lots of Gas!

Kyle & Svet

I came across this tidbit of an article that seems of interest…
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The Russian Orthodox Church Bishops’ Council will begin tomorrow. A document will be issued by the council that will define the church’s stance on human rights, calling for resistance to the emerging system of liberal values that contains “lies, untruth and insults to religious and national values.” Opponents see a possibility that the document is being prepared as a political order, to displace secular human rights organization, and the political opposition with them. Link: Kommersant
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I guess we will see how this turns out.

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

The other night was sleepless……
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http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=905201
More than 700,000 people celebrated the victory of the Russian national soccer team over The Netherlands with a score of 3:1 in the quarterfinal of the Championship of Europe Saturday night. Such massive exultation has never before been seen in the Russian capital, where, as in other Russian cities, automobile traffic came to a standstill as people came out onto the street shouting “Forward Russia!” and drivers honked in time and emerged from their cars to wave flags. A minor accident took place on Leningrad Prospekt, but the drivers were embracing by the time the police arrived and the matter ended in a conversation about the match. Stranger hugged and clinked bottles of beer or champagne in common toasts.
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Where we live they tore up the bus stop, broke out multiple business windows, tore down fences & broke beer bottles all over the streets. Boza (dog) & I went for a 3 am walk and got to experience the destructive force of around 60 guys who had way to much to drink.

Good thing Russia Won!

Kyle & Svet & Boza!

comments always welcome.

Hello,

Looks like Pastor Phillip Miles Got A Lucky Break… Or, maybe it could have been –“The defense team provided letters from Russia’s human rights ombudsman and 62 members of U.S. Congress with requests for the cleric’s acquittal.” 🙂
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MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti) – The Moscow City Court ruled on Monday to release a U.S. pastor from prison changing his earlier sentence of more than three years for illegally bringing ammunition in Russia to a 10-month suspended sentence.

Moscow’s lower district court sentenced Phillip Miles, 58, to three years and two months in prison in April for smuggling rifle rounds, declarable under Russian customs law, into the country for his Russian hunting partner.

Miles’s defense attorney appealed the ruling as “severe and inadequate” and sought his acquittal, citing an absence of criminal intent.

“Documents for his release will be sent to the detention center, and Miles will be released today or tomorrow,” the presiding judge said.

The defense team provided letters from Russia’s human rights ombudsman and 62 members of U.S. Congress with requests for the cleric’s acquittal.
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I bet he does not bring hunting ammo for a friend anymore or better yet, he should stay in America, the Russian’s are Orthodox & very happy about being Orthodox. I am growing found of the Russian Orthodox myself & feel that it has better structure than the Christianity sects in America.

Good Luck Pastor Phillip Miles!

Kyle & Svet

http://kylekeeton.com/2008/06/russia-pastor-phillip-miles-appeal.html
http://windowstorussia.com/2008/04/now-they-are-in-uproar-pastor-phillip.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/usa-has-rules-on-firearms-ammunition-at.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/russia-items-to-declare-at-border.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/usa-pastor-phillip-miles.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/russia-pastor-phillip-miles-gets-three.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/phillip-miles-what-will-be-outcome.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/03/pastor-phillip-miles-still-in-prison.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/more-on-phillip-miles.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/pastor-phillip-miles.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/russia-important-update-on-american.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/russia-update-on-pastor-phillip-miles.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/why-did-i-try-to-walk-into-russia-with.html
http://kylekeeton.com/2008/02/why-would-anyone-bring-ammunition-into.html

comments always welcome.

Hello,

Poland says let us see the green backs……
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Poland is demanding one billion dollars a year from the United States for allowing elements of its anti-missile defence shield to be placed there.

It’s believed that cost could be too much for the White House in the latest setback for the controversial project, which is opposed by Russia. Link: Russia Today
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Actually with inflation that is not enough, Poland should ask for more….

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about what Russia might be saying in conjunction with USA, Israel & Iran situation!
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to build nuclear weapons. Lavrov said Russia had asked both the United States and Israel to provide factual information to back their claims that Iran was working to build atomic weapons.

“So far we have seen none, and the same conclusion was made by the International Atomic Energy Agency,” he said. “It’s absolutely not right to speak matter-of-factly that Iran continues building nuclear weapons,” Lavrov added. Link: The Jerusalem Post
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Can any one say World Disaster……?

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

This is an important gas pipeline. This pipeline puts Ukraine and others out of the ballpark…
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Russia Today:

The Dutch national gas company Gasunie has joint the Nord Stream gas pipeline project.

The announcement came from Russian gas giant Gazprom.

The Dutch company gets 9% in the joint enterprise, reducing the shares of E.On Ruhrgas and Wintershall Holding to 20% each. Gazprom keeps its 51% stake.

The Nord Stream pipeline is to transport Russian gas to European customers, bypassing transit countries. It will run over the seabed of the Baltic Sea.

Gasunie is the operator of one of the biggest European gas networks with a total length of over 12,000 kilometres.
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Gazprom never rests….

Kylke & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

The film fest is wonderful in Moscow. Last year we caught a few Japanese films that we enjoyed…
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Russia’s capital will be at the hub of world cinema over the next 10 days with the city’s 30th International Film Festival.

Thousands of people from the movie industry are in Moscow for the event, including a galaxy of A-list stars.

The ceremony opens on Thursday with the Russian premiere of the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Hancock’, with the film’s stars, Will Smith and Charlize Theron, expected to attend. Russia Today
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For all fans of Moscow Movie Festival it will be very interesting to watch this video what we just found:

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.