Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Friday sharply criticized the two largest Russian-Bulgarian energy projects, according to local media. He said after a meeting with EU ambassadors that Bulgaria was pulling out of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project and suspending construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. By way of explanation, he said the pipeline was […]
Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, is officially one of the three richest women in the world with an estimated wealth of $2.9 billion… Only 14 women in the world have amassed personal fortunes of $1 billion or more – just 2% of the 1,011 self-made billionaires on the Forbes list. She […]
Svet and I had a good weekend and stayed away from posting any articles. At least very many articles. 🙂 We went and got two tires for our Volga and we need to have them put on this week. We picked up Russian made tires and got a pretty good deal on them. We have […]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in February 2010 announced the establishment of a modern center for research and development, which the media quickly dubbed Russia’s Silicon Valley. It is officially located in the town called Skolkovo. Skolkovo already is home to a very prestigious business school and other highly advanced facilities. The facility is around 20 […]
No – you got the title correct. deliminator: “A string or pattern used to delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated from the resulting list of fields.” That is how I look at these new sanctions against Iran and with these sanctions are so many promises not to do this and not to […]
The second cup of coffee brought my attention to: One of the oldest and most respectable U.S. newspapers has published an article on the political situation in Georgia following the South Ossetian crisis. According to The Washington Post, “Georgians inside and outside the government have begun to question the wisdom of the costly confrontation, and […]
Hello, I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and checking on the rumors that America was messing around in the Crimea again. If you ever had any doubts that the USA was messing around in Ukraine then let those doubts be cleared up. “In December 2008, Ukraine and the U.S. signed an agreement on […]
Take a quick look at this graph on wikipedia showing tax rates around the world. Yep, the US is a free country indeed…. read more | digg story
They defeated the robot but only by a technicality… I love the part with the young girl playing against the robot, she is so intelligent. I am not sure how old she is but just think, she is playing with some of the best. Russians love their chess and just today, I walked by a […]
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