Even though I have been in Russia 5 years now. I still reach for the light switch on the wrong side of the door. Every time… That is my thought this morning as I sip my cup of coffee… It seems that I will most likely never get use to a different placement of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]