Day: March 10, 2010

I have watched this incident from the beginning and have been waiting to see what the Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev would have to say about this situation. Rashid has already had to express his dissatisfaction before:

The minister used his annual Police Day address last November to remind police chiefs that officers should point their weapons at criminals, and not aim them at law-abiding citizens. Shortly after this, he advised ordinary citizens to “give as good as they get” if they are attacked for no reason by officers.

It seems to me that Russia is one of the last frontiers when it comes to interesting things that happen. Russia has many strange happenings and this is an example of one of those strange things that happen in Russia…

The video will explain what happened and it makes me wonder what goes through the minds of people – be they cops or anyone else! Medvedev is working hard to get the police force in Russia to get their act together and then the cops do something like this…

Watch the Video and you will understand!

Times are changing in Russia! Heads have rolled because of this incident. But the old ways die slowly and if the cops want the people to respect them. Then the cops must change the way they treat people.

Reminds me of stories that Grandpa would tell about the old days in America…

This is why I love Russia – What a cool and stupid thing to do! 🙂

Windows to Russia!

PS: This video was posted at Mizozo first! I just noticed that he beat me to posting it…

Update a video by RIA:

The Nord Stream pipeline development has exposed treasures that were not expected! The latest discovery was made during a search of the seabed east of the Swedish island of Gotland by the Nord Stream consortium, which is building a 750-mile pipeline in the Baltic Sea. The 12 wrecks were found in a 30-mile-long and 1.2-mile-wide corridor of the sea.

The find is considered to be exceptional because the Baltic sea has a lower salt level and by that one condition, a sea worm that attacks and eats wood does not exist in the sea…

This means that the ships, some as old as 800 years. Are in fantastic shape. Nord Stream has promised to not destroy the hulls of the ships and will do everything necessary to make sure everyone interested can find and research these ships. The ships found do not lay in the path of the pipeline so that danger is mute…

There are several big issues that are circling the Russian news agencies: One is Russia joining NATO and the next is that the US and Russia are currently negotiating a successor to the START nuclear disarmament treaty.

Lavrov the Russian Foreign Minister has always made it clear that NATO is the “hind end of a donkey” and he was given normative support for this thinking recently:

Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton and currently involved in the development of a new NATO strategic concept, has only nurtured Lavrov’s skepticism. Washington, she says, will never allow Russia to influence NATO strategy: “We will not allow the tail to wag the dog.” (Link)

That is where the truth lies and to think different would be a total lack of empiricism…

As far as the successor to the START treaty: America has created a quandary for itself! Russia who has stayed firm on her commitments, thoughts and factors. Is seeing an America that talks out of two mouths. One of the most important factors to Russia is American missile defense in countries around Russian borders.

As Prime Minister Putin has eloquently stated in a recent speech in the Pacific coastal city of Vladivostok.

If Russia did nothing to oppose the missile defense system, he added, the other side would “feel completely safe under its missile shield, and it would do as it pleased. The balance would be gone, and aggression in politics and business would grow abruptly.” Putin’s conclusion is that “Russia needs new offensive systems.”

So as America plays games of decisive destruction of confirmatory relations with major world powers such as China and Russia – America keeps wondering why no-one wants to trust her…