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I have received a whole bunch of e-mails demanding to know why Libya is even being posted about on Windows to Russia…

So here is the straight fact:

In the high-profile debate surrounding the rights and wrongs of the Libyan revolution, Putin is largely winning at home, and Medvedev in the West. Putin put his finger on the attitude most prevalent among Russians: 80%-90% are outraged by not being asked their opinion on bombing Libya, as though Russia did not exist. Neither the ruling elite nor ordinary Russians seem to like this. Medvedev, on the other hand, has been out there, forging a new policy toward the West since the conflict with Georgia [over South Ossetia]. He has seen relationships with Germany, France, and the United States improve and naturally does not want to ruin this or slow it down. That is why he will do everything in his power to defend the UN resolution on Libya. (Link)

I can vouch over the upset Russians about Libya. Then Medvedev did what he did, to kiss up to the West and Putin has stood up for what is correct. That put “icing on the cake” so to speak. The article tries to play it off as being a good thing but the underlining truth is very obvious and to a Russian it is a slap in the face. The West is not a priority to the Russian…

So since this is a Windows to Russia you get what Russia is pissed about as much if not more than what Russia is happy about. In this case Russia is pissed because the West has set up the opposition in Libya to sell oil, start a Central Bank in Libya, recognize the opposition in Libya as legitimate, Getting ready to supply the opposition who is al-Qaeda run with weapons, not following the UN mandate and so on and so on and so on. As far as Medvedev and his quirks. The people are starting to rumble…

I said months ago that Putin has let Medvedev to go his way and sink or swim on his own accord…

Libya is huge news in Russia and the conflicts that it has caused internally is forefront in the news. Now you know a little more about Russia and that includes Libya right now…

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Well the story continues and we still are not 100% positive yet that Doku Umarov is dead. But it is starting to look like he is dead. After watching the video you will realize what kind of firepower Russia took to the party on Monday. Trees were blown down and splintered and we are talking about a fair size area of destruction… (Take a peak at the video and watch the background, not the news casters.)

It looks like they dropped a small nuke on the camp…

So which is it? Is he dead or not? I see every news source having a different story to tell…

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Doku Umarov Now Claims The Moscow Metro Bombings!

I am going to tell you that I will be staying on this story. What a dream for us here and those coming to Russia. There seems to be a huge push in the Russian government to get this done. No visa visits under 90 days with America and Russia…

Russia and the United States may ease or even cancel visa regime soon, Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the State Duma’s international affairs committee said on Tuesday.Earlier reports said Russia was persuading the US to sign a deal to scrap visas for visits lasting under 90 days. Kosachev said the idea might be implemented in the foreseeable future, at least where it comes to easing visa issuance procedures.Speaking at the World Russian Forum annual conference in Washington Kosachev suggested using the same negotiating practice Russia already has with the EU. (Link)

Russia is not letting this drop and Putin instigated it when VP Biden came to visit Russia. Looks like Russia is trying to get the visa situation changed with almost all countries. Russia is willing to go “tit for tat”…

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The Levada Center has done a survey in Russia! The survey was conducted 18-21 March 2011 among 1,600 Russians in 45 regions of the country and published on the anniversary of the explosions in the Moscow subway…

It basically said:

77% of Russians feel that another terrorist attack is eminent…
66% do not think that law enforcement can do anything about it…
Trust in the state as a protector against future terrorist attacks has been steadily declining since 2007…

So today it was announced that on this Monday (March 28, 2011), a high-precision air strike and ground operation destroyed a training base for suicide bombers in Ingushetia. The operations were launched by special services and the Investigative Committee in cooperation with the Defense and Interior Ministries.

Seventeen militants were killed including the leader of the North Caucasus militants Doku Umarov is thought to have also been killed in this operation…

Medvedev has praised highly the action and abilities of the strike…

Looks like to me  it was a good time to wipe out some militants for good public relations…

From what I understand several captured militants rolled over and told of the whereabouts of this particular camp for training suicide bombers. That set in motion the gears to take out this camp and hopefully catch Doku Umarov in the process. It is said that a strong fight was put up by the militants. But all the militants were killed in the operation. With several special services injured and killed…

We will have to wait to see if  Doku Umarov was amongst the dead…

Update: Doku Umarov was not amongst the dead per witnesses who know him? But evidently many of the bodies were in bad shape and they are having to do DNA testing to see if he is one of the dead. So he may be still alive…

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Coffee and a Rebel or a Terrorist…
Russian Video From Russia: Check this out on the bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport…
Doku Umarov Now Claims The Moscow Metro Bombings!
The “Caucasus Mujahideens” Claim Responsibility for The Moscow-St. Petersburg Train Crash!

Japanese authorities said that the situation in the nuclear power plant emergency is very serious. Nuclear engineers are trying to pump radioactive water from the first reactor. In the soil at the station found plutonium, and the particles of radioactive iodine were detected in the atmosphere over the U.S., China and Iceland…

Tuesday at the Japanese nuclear power plant  “Fukushima-1, continued work on the pumping radioactive water from the turbine hall of the first reactor. This was reported by the company-operator station, Tokyo Electric Power ( TEPCO). At the same time, experts can not resume pumping in turbine halls of the second and third reactors, as the tanks filled with radioactive liquid, and the radiation level in water exceeds the rate of 100 thousand times, reports the news. Work to restore electricity to the reactor has been suspended.  Previously, three workers to lay cables in the power, got the deadly radioactive dose…

Read More in Russia: http://www.gazeta.ru/subjects/zemletrasenie_v_japonii.shtml

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Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot said on Tuesday it will begin regular commercial flights of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 in mid-May.

The company has placed orders for 40 models of the aircraft, which will initially conduct flights between Moscow and the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.

The Super-jet, championed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is designed to replace the Soviet-era mid-range planes that entered service in the 1960s and 80s.

Sukhoi is seeking to sell at least 800 planes, more than half to foreign airlines. It currently has over 120 confirmed orders, with the first Superjet to be delivered to neighboring Armenia’s air carrier Armavia by the end of April.

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Russian forces say Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov could have been among those killed during fighting in the volatile North Caucasus region, the Russian daily Kommersant said on Tuesday.

Seventeen rebels were killed on Monday in an attack on a base in Ingushetia used by Islamist insurgents to train suicide bombers, Russia’s anti-terror committee said. The raid involved ground forces and air strikes. Three Russia servicemen were also killed in the violence.

The identities of the militants are not yet known, but law enforcement officials say there is a possibility that Umarov, one of Russia’s most wanted terrorists, could have been killed in the attack.

Umarov, who has styled himself as the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, claimed responsibility for the March 2010 suicide bombings on the Moscow subway, in which 40 people died. He is also said to have ordered a deadly bomb attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport in January that claimed 37 lives.

There have been several false reports of the death of Umarov in recent years, including speculation that he had been killed in an airstrike in Chechnya at the turn of the year.

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Coffee and a Rebel or a Terrorist…
Russian Video From Russia: Check this out on the bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport…
Doku Umarov Now Claims The Moscow Metro Bombings!
The “Caucasus Mujahideens” Claim Responsibility for The Moscow-St. Petersburg Train Crash!

NATO has agreed to take over all military operations in Libya, taking command away from the Pentagon – or have they? Critics claim America is still in control.

Journalist Pepe Escobar from the Asia Times said although NATO has taken control, America is still in control to an extent.

“This is an enormous enterprise built on lies,” he said.
(more…)

With the help of coalition air strikes, anti-Gadhafi forces are making sustained progress toward the Libyan capital Tripoli. The Western military intervention appears to have entered a new phase. Instead of just protecting civilians as foreseen under the UN resolution, coalition forces are actively supporting rebel fighters. (Spiegel Online has been posting some good articles about this war. Read More >>>)

So while you sit and eat dinner in front of the TV and listen to the evening news about how wonderful the war is in Libya and that we do not take sides. While you accept that America NATO has taken over the war. The coalition is killing hundreds and hundreds of men women and children who are loyal to Libya in the name of the Rebels who just happen to be  al-Qaeda trained and backed…

The commander of anti Gaddafi rebels forces in Libya has admitted that among the ranks of those fighting against the government are Islamic militants who have fought and killed US troops in Iraq, otherwise known as “al qaeda” fighters. Read More >>>

So when Russia says that the coalition is not following the plan set forth by the UN. They are right. But if I remember correctly, this happened with Iraq and Afghanistan also…

Russia needs to learn about the West!

Give them an inch and they will take a mile…

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Two of the 10 Russians deported from the United States in a spy row last July have demanded that some of the property they were forced to leave behind be returned to them.

The claim was lodged by the legal counsel for Vladimir and Lidia Guryev, better known as Richard and Cynthia Murphy.

The members of the ring were swapped for four alleged U.S. spies held in Russia and warned never to return to the United States. Their property was seized by the U.S. government.

Richard Murphy’s property reportedly includes $190,000 on his bank account, three cars, computers, cameras and other equipment.

A document held by the Russian legal information agency shows that the couple is asking for the return of computers, digital photos and video cameras, or at least copies of data recorded on them.

They have no “material value,” but are “dear to the Guryevs,” the document says.

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