Windows to Russia

Emergency meeting following explosion at Domodedovo Airport January 24, 2011, 18:15 Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the injured and to families of the victims. www.kremlin.ru

Moscow saw its second suicide attack in less than 12 months on Monday as a terrorist assault on the Russian capital’s busiest airport left over 30 dead, officials said. Preliminary reports suggest a bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber as passengers arrived at Domodedovo airport’s international arrivals gate at 4:40 p.m. (13:40 GMT). Health […]

1994-1996 – Tens of thousands of people are killed in the first Chechen war. June 1995 – Chechen rebels seize hundreds of hostages in a hospital in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk. More than 100 people are killed during the rebel assault and a botched Russian commando raid. Jan. 1996 – Chechen fighters take […]

It seems that Russia, China, Ukraine, Belarus and South Korea to name a few, have all banned pork and pork products from Germany. They all gave Germany time to prove that dioxin was not present in German pork products. But as Germany has been unable or unwilling to supply such documentation. The importation has stopped, […]

Back in April of 2004, Ilyas Akhmadov was granted political asylum in the US where he currently resides. Ilyas Akhmadov has now recently published a book and it seems to be with the support of the US Federal Budget. That means it is supported by the Federal Government of the USA and that is where […]

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been granted a Russian visa and plans to visit Russia as soon as he gets his name cleared up. Which he hopes is soon. The trip may happen in a couple of weeks, reports the Russian News Service citing WikiLeaks supporter and friend of Assange, Israel Shamir. No details of the […]

Russia gets control over child abuse case in US:

A reader gave me a link to a site about the Russian WikiLeaks. So it seems that we need to at least take a look at the site. (I have known about this site for some time because I follow what the Pirate Party is doing.)  When you go there you will notice the colors […]

I was having a cup of decaf coffee last night while eating dinner with Sveta. With the weather so blistering cold hot coffee is good anytime of the day. I just wish that caffeine would not keep me up all night. So I must live with decaf… The conversation turned to the Russian people. Sveta […]