Windows to Russia

Russia’s Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, is considering developing the Caspian and Black sea offshore deposits but the Black Sea projects may pay off only if the oil giant is granted tax breaks, a Gazprom Neft official said on Thursday. “Gazprom Neft plans to take part in tenders and auctions […]

Drug trafficking in Central Asia generates up to $20 billion every year, Russia’s anti-narcotics chief, Viktor Ivanov, said on Thursday. Ivanov was speaking at a meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Drug Trafficking Working Group in Moscow. He said the money “was being pumped into organized crime in the region.” Russia and the United […]

Russian exports of gasoline and diesel through the Ukraine may be interupted, they are saying at Transnefteproduct. The reason is a conflict between Russia and Ukrainian for the pipeline control. On this controversial pipeline about 2 million tons of fuel a year go to Hungary and southern European countries… (Link) Windows to Russia! Kiev Mayor […]

Russian news is reporting that ground troops are being readied by America. The info comes from the web portal of DVIDS. So I looked it up… NORFOLK, Va. – More than 4,000 sailors and Marines from the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit began to deploy from Norfolk and Little Creek, Va., […]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is on an official visit to Serbia, on Wednesday attended a football match where he met with several local bikers. The bikers from Macedonia and Serbia are members of the Russian bike movement Night Wolves, whose leader Alexander Zaldostanov, aka Surgeon, met with the premier last year in Ukraine. […]

The International Skating Union (ISU) will continue on Thursday to vote on where to hold the 2011 Figure Skating World Championship after Tokyo was forced to bow out due to the tragic earthquake on March 11. After Japan was forced to decline hosting the championship, Moscow (Russia), Vancouver (Canada), Turku (Finland), Colorado Springs (USA), Graz […]

WORLD * Renowned Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79, ABC television said * The death count in Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami has climbed to 9,487 people, NHK reported citing the country’s police * Microscopic radioactive particles from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant that may spread across the world […]

Test launches of Russia’s new generation Angara booster rockets will begin no later than 2013, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. Alexei Zolotukhin said work to build on-ground infrastructure of the space complex for launches of Angara carrier rockets is currently in active stage at Russia’s northern space center Plesetsk. Angara rockets, designed […]

The way decisions on the use of force are made almost at the drop of a hat is worrying, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, referring to the situation in Libya. “I don’t think we can equate Serbia with Libya,” Putin said responding to a question about the lessons that the international community […]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss Palestinian-Israeli settlement issues and the ongoing campaign in Libya, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Wednesday. The meeting agenda is set to cover issues on Middle East settlement, including the restart of Palestinian-Israeli peace talks and […]