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Stock-holders of the South Stream gas pipeline project will sign an agreement on the 16th of September, 2011. The project stipulates laying a gas pipeline across the Black Sea from Russia to the countries of Central and South Europe. The first stage is to be put into operation in December 2015, and running the South […]

Putin said the launch of the Nord Stream would deprive Ukraine of its exclusive gas transit rights. “Ukraine is our old and traditional partner. As any transit country it has the temptation to benefit from its transit position. Now this exclusive right is disappearing. Our relations will become more civilized,” Putin told journalists. That kinda […]

Kommersant reports that “CSTO is turning to face NATO”. This article addresses the reform of the Collective Security Treaty Organization that Russia is working on.According to a source of the newspaper, the basis for this transformation may be developed by the Russian Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), the board of guardians of which is chaired […]

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In our little village we have about 6 people who stay all Winter. Most of those 6 are babushkas. (4 out of 6) If I remember correctly our goat lady next door who supplies us with goat milk. Is about 86 years old. It is with this lady that I saw a wonderful blending of […]

Russia’s Gazprom started filling the Nord Stream pipeline (first phase) with technological gas on Tuesday in a testing process that is expected to be finished by October 6, 2011. The 1,000-km-plus pipe, Nord Stream is designed to directly deliver Russian gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea. The first phase with deliver around 27.5 billion […]

Two weeks ago, western journalists swept into Tripoli on a wave of euphoria as the city welcomed the NATO/TNC with open arms. Not a shot was fired as the city where just a few weeks previously, millions of people had turned out to support Muammar al-Qathafi, came out to celebrate. Then why is the NATO/TNC […]

Sveta and I (and Boza of course) are getting things together on this last day in the village. It makes me kinda sad and I really do not want to leave. But we have things to get caught upon at home in Moscow and since it is a new school year in Russia. I have […]

Moscow is celebrating its 864th birthday. Historians assume that the city is actually much older, but the first recorded mention of Moscow dates back to 1147. Despite floods, fires and invasions, the city grew and developed. During the next few years, Moscow will more than double its territory to 251,000 hectares and may soon emerge […]

One of the things that I love about the village as I loved about living in the country all my life is really something very simple and easy. It is something that is such a pleasure and so easy to overlook. It is something that city people never see because of the glow from the […]