Windows to Russia

This video from Russia Today is about the information that Robert Fisk the Middle East correspondent of the The Independent has given out about the dollar, Fisk who holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent has expressed real concern about the future of the dollar. In response the dollar took […]

There is no threat of a food deficit in Russia despite the recent drought, The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said during a meeting of the State Council on domestic food market policies in Saratov (Volga region). Medvedev promised to get control of speculative food prices and added that even according to the most pessimistic […]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia dismissed the effectiveness of sanctions against Iran, stressing that a systemic solution is needed to settle Tehran‘s standoff with the West over the country’s nuclear program. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that sanctions do not normally produce the desired results. “The approach to its solution [Iranian nuclear problem] must […]

Russia Today Logo… Russia’s Russia Today news channel is launching a new  24/7 Spanish broadcast in Washington DC on the first of Sept… The channel’s  editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan  is sure the new service will enjoy the same demand as the English-language broadcasting launched in 2009.This year it was nominated for the British Broadcast Digital Awards […]

Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Antimonopoly Service to prevent food price fixing… The president said the country possesses sufficient amounts of grain, when he visited a dairy farm in Orenburg today. He said speculators should be severely punished… (Well, I would suggest that “should”  be replaced with “must” […]

Chess lovers dreams will be answered soon by BlueGene the IBM Super Computer. It will be present at the Chess Olympics being held in Russia this year… MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — The super computer BlueGene will be a commentator during the 39th World Chess Olympics slated from Sept. 20 to Oct. 3 in Khanty-Mansiisk, […]