Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the current President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), who headed the southern Republic of Kalmykia for almost two decades before resigning in 2010, visited the Libyan capital and met with Gaddafi at his invitation. The two men played chess for two-and-a-half hours. Speaking on Tuesday, Ilyumzhinov said that the Libyan leader is […]
Download the podcast! Daniel Repko is from a small town in America and was raised a Lutheran. He took an early interest in Russia, and went on to major in Russian at university. He began in Moscow 13 years ago, as many do, teaching English. His talent for communication and teaching has stood him in […]
June 12 is the national day of the Russian Federation – the Day of Russia. It has been celebrated every year since 1994. The First Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation adopted the Declaration on Russia’s National Sovereignty on June 12, 1990. The declaration views sovereignty as a natural and indispensable condition of […]
Remember when Ukraine was stealing gas? Remember when Ukraine refused to deliver gas to Europe? Remember when Ukraine would not pay their gas bills? Remember when Ukraine… (You get my point!) Well Ukraine seems to have come to the realization that South Stream is a true reality and that it will cut Ukraine’s throat in […]
MOSCOW, June 11 (Itar-Tass) —— An American diplomat’s 17-year-old adopted daughter has disappeared in the Krasnogorsk district near Moscow, Moscow regional police department spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev told Itar-Tass on Friday. The girl went out in the cottage village of Rosinka near Krasnogorsk on June 9 and did not return. The parents reported it to police […]
The All-Russian People’s Front, established by Vladimir Putin as a public support structure around his United Russia party, now has a website… The website is here: … I found this interesting: Declaration on Education All-Russian Popular Front… We, representatives of public associations: – Acting in the interests of Russia and its multi-ethnic people; – Respecting […]
A U.S. man charged with raping his adopted Russian daughter has described his relations with the teenager as “consensual,” Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said on Friday. The man was arrested in 2010 on charges of regularly raping the Russian adoptee, Ksenia, although the Russian embassy only found out about the case this month when […]
This morning while sipping coffee I was doing some serious thinking’s. Those thinking’s were about e-mails that Sveta and I have been getting. To put the e-mails in a nutshell: They center around “guy meets girl” on Internet. Girl is hot babe! Girl is madly in love with guy! Girl needs money to come see […]
Just like Russia Today which has successfully infiltrated the main media in the West so does Voice of Russia attempt to add their expressions to the fray. Voice of Russia is going to put some more pressure on the corrupt controlled media in the West. In particular the American media… Voice of Russia Radio is […]
MOSCOW, June 10 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ dispatches two jets to Yemen Friday to evacuate all the Russian citizens willing to leave the country that plunged into a turmoil, EMERCOM’s department for public relations and information said Friday… Starting to look a lot like extended war time in […]