Category: Russia

We received an interesting e-mail about a movie that was being promoted. Now usually if it is in the spam system and from Russia. Then it is history. Gmail has a tendency no matter what I try to do. It will spam Russian e-mail letters and since it was in the form of many of the spam letters we get. I am surprised that it survived my deletion attempt…

But something stopped Google from working correctly and I took a real look at the letter. Here is the letter that was in our spam box…

Hi Kyle and Svet,

My name is Annmarie and I represent the documentary film Miss Gulag. We’ve just released the DVD and we thought the story would really interest your readers (it’s about a beauty pageant held every year in a Siberian woman’s prison, and looks at the first generation of women to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.) Some background: the film was funded in part by the Ford Foundation and Sundance Documentary Fund, premiered at the Berlinale, and played at over 35 other international festivals. I’d love to work with you to promote it if possible, either with a DVD review or an interview with the director, who will be in New York for the next few months. I’d be happy to arrange for a review copy or streaming option. I look forward to being in touch with you further!

Best,

Annmarie

www.missgulag.com

www.facebook.com/missGULAG

Sometimes I follow how life takes the flow and in this case, Sveta and I took a close look at this movie. It was not a spam e-mail…

Here is what we found…

About The Film:
Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia.

Miss GULAG explores the individual destinies of three women: Yulia, Tatiana, and Natasha, all bound together by long prison sentences and circumstances that have made them the vigilantes of their own destinies.

For these women, undoubtedly, life is harsh under the constant surveillance of UF-91/9, but it is no less so on the outside. Today they, their families, and loved ones are sustained by hope for a better life upon release. This is a story of survival told from both sides of the fence.

After some studying, watching longer sections of the film and finalizing the fact that this is legit. Sveta and I found that we really liked it and we are going to attempt to get the whole Miss Gulag film. They have offered us a review copy and if that is correct we will take them up on that offer…

We will most likely have several more articles pertaining to this movie and I do know that Sveta will plan on posting something about Miss Gulag on our video blog…

So until they get back to us. We will leave it where we are at this point and you should be looking for future updates on this particular interest…

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The US, Britain and France have attacked Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in what they say is an attempt to enforce a UN-endorsed no-fly zone. On Saturday night, at least 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by the US and UK amid air strikes by French planes that were followed by the US bombing of a major Libyan airfield on Sunday. At least three US B-2 bombers took part in the Sunday attack, Libya’s state TV reported, adding that 48 people have already been killed and 150 more injured in the West’s military action against Libya, including the capital, Tripoli. Meanwhile, a naval blockade against this North African country is being put in place, with more than twenty warships and submarines taking part in the process. (Yevgeny Kryshkin:)

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Source: Voice of Russia.

I tried to go back to wide open comments and it was a nightmare again. I woke up this morning to a barrage of slimy, hateful, scummy, trashy and degrading comments. I also had 458 spam and 250 totally disgusting comments… (This was in only a 9 hour period.)

So I just cleared the board and hope that I did not lose many real comments. If you do not see your comment then please re-post…

Washington DC has stopped their attacks (for now) but it seems California and Canada has taken up the bandwagon and is performing an unmerciful onslaught of hate and degenerating comments…

Sveta said, “I see they are back!” I said, “Yes they are, but they are short lived…”

So with Google Friend Connect in operation I am spared the trash. The Wordpress comment system can not handle it. So what must be – must be…

If you desire to comment you must sign up to Google Friend Connect…

It really is not that hard to do…

Sorry!

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WORLD

* Western aircraft are bombarding civilian objects in the Libyan city of Tripoli, the Libyan Al Jamahiriya satellite TV channel said

* Moscow regrets the attack from a range of European countries on Libya which is being conducted “with reference to the hastily adopted UN Security Council resolution,” official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said

* A fresh tremor measuring 6.1 jolted eastern Japan , but no major damage was reported, Kyodo news said

* Trace amounts of radioactive iodine were discovered in tap water in Tokyo in the wake of the disaster at the crippled nuclear plant Fukushima, Japanese media said

RUSSIA

* Russia is ready to increase its gas deliveries to Europe by 6 billion cubic meters for 100 days in order to disengage volumes of liquefied gas for quake-stricken Japan, Russian Prime Minister Putin said

* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, called on the Muslim world to unite and support Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi

* A legal feud between Russia and the U.S. over an old Jewish archive has resulted in the Russian Culture Ministry invoking a rare legal step of “force majeure” to order the immediate return of 37 icons and artifacts on loan at a local U.S. museum, the museum’s website said

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Russian rescuers completed work in Japan’s quake-ravaged Sendai and moved for search of people to another disaster-hit city, Niigata, a Far Eastern emergencies service department said on Sunday.

“It was decided on March 18 to send Russian rescue groups to Niigata. On Saturday, rescuers were setting up a camp and preparing equipment after their relocation. As of now, they have already begun searching for people,” a spokesman for the emergencies ministry’s Far Eastern department, Sergei Viktorov, said.

In Sendai, he said, Russian rescuers recovered 100 bodies from debris, adding that “unfortunately, we have not found any survivors yet.”

So far, over 160 Russian specialists are involved in rescue efforts in Japan.

A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, leaving some 7,200 dead and 11,000 missing, according to most recent updates.

Aftershocks continue to rattle the area. Three 5.0-magnitude tremors were registered in the area on Friday morning, followed by 4.8- and 4.9-magnitude aftershocks. No tsunami warning was issued.

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Radiation levels were within the norm on Sunday in the Russian Far East despite radiation leaks from Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant severely affected by last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry reported.

Fukushima was hit by a number of explosions following a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands on March 11. Workers at the plant are still desperately trying to cool the overheating nuclear cores in the reactors in an effort to prevent nuclear fallout.

“As of 12:00 p.m. local time (5:00 a.m. Moscow time) on Sunday, no instances of radiation levels exceeding the normal level were registered in the Far Eastern regions. Radiation levels range from 13 to 19 microroentgens per hour as compared with the natural background radiation of 30 microroentgens per hour in the Far East,” the ministry said in a statement.

Trace amounts of radioactive iodine were discovered in tap water in Tokyo in the wake of the disaster at the crippled nuclear plant Fukushima, Japanese media reported.

Radiation above the national safety level was also found in the water supply in five other prefectures, said an official from Japan’s science ministry, which is monitoring radiation levels.

The Japanese government has halted sale of food products from the area of Fukushima, the International Atomic Energy Agency said as the presence of radioactive iodine contamination in food products from near the crippled plant was confirmed.

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Didn’t I just have an article on Russian: Boys and Their Toys!

Looks like they will have lots of big toys to play with and destroy things with.

• 36 strategic ballistic missiles
• 2 strategic missile submarines
• 20 strategic cruise missiles
• 5 spacecraft
• 35 warplanes
• 109 helicopters
• 21 missile defense systems
• 3 multi role nuclear powered submarines
• 1 surface warship

But I do not see any German tanks that they want… 🙂

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TRIPOLI, March 18 (Reuters) – Libya declared a ceasefire in the country to protect civilians and comply with a United Nations resolution passed overnight, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said on March 18.

“We decided on an immediate ceasefire and on an immediate stop to all military operations,” he told reporters. “(Libya) takes great interest in protecting civilians,” he said, adding that the country would also protect all foreigners and foreign assets in Libya.

Ok so now what? Does the West attack anyway and start a war or do they back down and wait…

Gaddafi is smart and scared and who wouldn’t be with a pack of rabid wolves with a 1000 times more firepower, trying to figure out how to kill you legally…

But he is still in control of his country… (Right Now…)

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PS: Did any one notice while all this is going on that Israel’s Netanyahu has made it clear that we need to attack Iran and do it now. Based on a ship that they confiscated allegedly (see I can use that word also) trying to get arms into the Gaza. The arms mostly from the 1970’s were considered now the reason that Israel must search every ship. Now Iran needs to be taken care of NOW and yada yada yada…

Thoughts today over coffee…

The Russian people are not very happy over this situation called Libya. I myself see Medvedev’s chance of being re-elected president, put in big jeopardy by this action or lack of action by him in the UN council. Russia by abstaining from the vote, gave the go ahead to the West. Many Russian people consider what he did as a weakness. Russians like one thing in their leaders and that is Strength. They are a lot like Americans in that respect…

So the West marched across that Rubicon River like they knew what they were doing. So if all else fails. Lets prove we know what we are doing. Attack Libya…

It is interesting that the main countries that never stepped across the Rubicon River are the ones who abstained from the UN voting. Germany, Russia, Brazil, China and India. The rest of them (UN) danced across that line of no return and have danced the war dance, ever since…

Starting to Look Like the West Will Cross the Rubicon River…

Gaddafi Has Not Rolled Over and Played Dead When the West Demanded…

The Western media lies about Libyan riots just like it did about the Georgian war in 2008…

Invade Libya: Could We Be That Stupid? (Yes We Are!)

Search the below link “Windows to Russia” for a whole bunch (20 to 30) of articles on Libya…

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You do realize that we are so good at never killing civilians ourselves, that we would never have any collateral damage in Libya. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan… Hummm!

I wonder if this situation could be the icing on the cake that starts the world towards – World War Three? (WWIII)

We do have some serious issues going on in this situation. We sidestep and ignore other countries that are doing much the same as Libya. But we have no care about those countries. Just Libya…

As Lew Rockwell says: The US electoral dictatorship will now, with its NATO minions, attack Libya, North African treasury of sweet crude, to expand and tighten the empire’s grip on the Muslim peoples, and to be able to deny oil to China. And no, this scheme is not to put down tyranny, which the US engineers in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., and exemplifies itself. (Link)

I am glad I live in Russia. They seem to have a better sense of right and wrong then the West… (Even though they Wimped out with their none use of NO vote at the UN.)

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted on a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” – code for military action – to protect citizens.

Ten of the council’s 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, with Russia, China and Germany among the five that abstained.

No votes were recorded against the resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States.

In Benghazi, the main rebel stronghold, a large crowd watching the vote on an outdoor TV projection burst into celebration as green and red fireworks filled the air, as broadcast live on the Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel.

The resolution fulfills a long-standing demand from pro-democracy opposition forces in Libya asking for a no-fly zone to be established in order to prevent Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, from using fighter jets to bombard their positions, as they have been doing.

It comes just a few hours after Gaddafi warned residents of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold, that his forces would show “no mercy” in an impending assault on the city.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said there was not much time left for the international community to act.

“France is very much involved in this action and has prepared the draft resolution. We have one goal… we want to stop the attacks by the Gaddafi regime against civilian populations.

“And it’s a question of days or hours because the pressure against Benghazi, especially, is now very tough.”

The Libyan defence ministry on Thursday, before the vote, warned that any military intervention in Libya would endanger air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean Sea.

In a statement released by the state-run Jana news agency, the ministry said that both civilian and military targets in the Mediterranean will be attacked.

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