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China needs the gas and Russia needs to sell it. Russia is looking at a huge gas contract (I mean huge!) with China and may sign a gas contract during China’s President Hu Jintao’s visit to Moscow. The issue of gas supplies to China is part of the talks between Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao.Continue reading Will Russia and China Come Together on a Gas Price…

Looks like NATO is struggling. France says that they need to pull out the only aircraft carrier in the Libyan war. NATO members are running out of bombs. Qaddafi having a good time playing chess this last weekend with the Russian head of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. (Now that was a psychological blowContinue reading NATO and Libya…

GENEVA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised that Russia will not increase the 40-hour working week. “We shall not allow an increase in the 40-hour work week,” he told the 100th session of the International Labor Conference. He added that Russia “will not try to slash costs at the expenseContinue reading Putin has promised that Russia will not increase the 40-hour working week…

This is interesting… Russia has introduced restrictions on the movement of heavy trucks on highways in summertime. At temperatures above 32 degrees centigrade (89.6 F), trucks are allowed to run on highways from 9 pm to 9 am. The restrictions were imposed in order to preserve highways in good condition and will be in forceContinue reading Russia Says Do Not Drive on Melting Roads…

Earlier this year the USA inquired to Russia about turn-coating on Iran over the and all nuclear deals. Russia was watching and waiting to see about several actions that the USA would take and do on missile defense and other important issues… Well in the last few days a little rhetoric has come out fromContinue reading Russia Questions Western Sincerity and Trust These Days…

This time of the year is strange. That was the thinking’s with my morning cup of coffee. You see, the Russians living in Moscow simply disappear. The children that overwhelmed the playgrounds have all vanished. Oh there is an occasional lost straggler, but for the most part the Muscovites are gone, or at least theContinue reading Coffee and the Muscovites are Gone…

Here in Russia the farther North that you get the less likely the sun wants to go away for the night. Now we in Moscow get a night but I can go to the top of our buildings and you can see light in the distance of a sun that never wants to go away.Continue reading It is 11 pm in Russia and the Sun Goes away very reluctantly…

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 isContinue reading “Gaddafi is ready for unconditional talks” – chess envoy…

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 inContinue reading Daniel Repko is from a small town in America: Now 13 years in Russia…