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Russia: President Medvedev has gone to a meeting….. The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss the situation in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia at a two-day summit which opens on Wednesday in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe. The post-Soviet regional bloc, that is widely seen as a counterweight to NATO’s influence in Eurasia, comprises Russia, […]

wants to maintain the possibility for a diplomatic solution to the crisis around Iran’s enrichment of uranium. The Russian leadership had made it clear in advance, however, that it would be willing to come to an agreement on Iran only after the United States changes it position on Georgia. Russian Ambassador to the United Nations […]

The Moscow International Film Festival is among the oldest film festivals in the world. The first time it was held was in 1935 and the Judges were headed by Sergei Eisenshtein himself, but the chronology of the festival begins in 1959, when it became a regular event. It is significant that the rebirth of the […]

The Russian press has lots of news about Libya. 90% of it is contradictory to the main Western news. The Eastern news from China and Russia both are telling a whole different story about what is happening in Libya. In fact the Western propaganda is being shot full of holes daily and it has become […]

Substitute Pilot at Controls in Crash Tu-134 on Friday: A plane and flight crew that crashed while trying to land in thick fog at Karelia’s capital, killing 44 of the 52 people on board, were provided by a U.S.-affiliated charter airline as a replacement for a smaller jet after too many passengers bought tickets. The […]

I have to agree with Russia on the issue of banning EU veggies. I keep reading almost daily about another person dying from the E.coli strain that has been unleashed. Russia has enough issues without inviting death across the border and since Sveta and I live in Russia we really do not want EU veggies […]