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Easter Holiday Dates 2011:

Good Friday – Friday 22, April 2011

Easter Saturday – Saturday 23, April 2011

Easter Sunday – Sunday 24, April 2011

Easter Monday – Monday 25, April 2011

This year Easter falls on the same day whether in the east of West. We have lots of links about Easter. Here are a few…

http://windowstorussia.com/russia-easter-april-27-2008_23.html
http://windowstorussia.com/recipe-from-russia-very-simple-kulich_24.html
http://windowstorussia.com/from-russia-when-is-easter_04.html
http://windowstorussia.com/in-russia-it-is-easter-time-april-19th_18.html
http://windowstorussia.com/from-russia-when-is-easter-western-or_11.html

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PS: Easter from year 2000 to 2049…

Just as Muscovites were enjoying the end of wintery conditions and the apparent onset on spring, a blizzard brought road misery and power cuts to the capital and the surrounding region on Saturday.

Three people were reported dead and over a dozen injured as sleet turned road conditions into what one official called “mush.”

In the region around Moscow, some 3,000 people were left without electricity as snow hit power supplies.

Moscow’s Domodedovo airport also reported delays due to weather conditions. Thousands of people were stranded at the airport late last year after a freak ice storm.

In the capital, over 500 trees fell down or were badly damaged.

Heavy snow is forecast to continue for at least the next 24 hours.

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One of my favorite articles that is posted every week is on Russian Profile. They have a panel of experts from around the world (Canada and USA today) that give opinions on an interesting question and usually that question is most likely in the Russian peoples mind. That makes it a legit proposition to answer…

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Putin on acquiring WTO and obligations: Putin said, Russia is being forced to “sustain losses” and “gets nothing out of a membership that isn’t,”.

“Why in hell would they admit us (WTO) if we do everything anyway? Russia is doing for free that which costs money!”

He then said, “Here is a direct order – don’t do that,”.

“I am asking you – and also tell this to our partners: We will not fulfill anything until we become full fledged members,” Putin said.

I like this guy. He tells it like it is…

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Russian correspondents were seized by Libyan opposition forces on Friday afternoon near the city of Ajdabiya. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs might seek the assistance of countries with troops on the ground in Libya’s to release the journalists…

Source:

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The Chief Executive Officer of the German RWT company Stefan Yudish has told the Berlin Forum devoted to the problem besetting the construction of the Nabucco pipeline that the project is at a standstill. Nabucco was conceived to deliver gas from the Caspian region to Europe, bypassing Russia and was also intended to rival the Russian South Stream project. Besides the RWT company the Berlin Forum was attended by the EU countries, the main brain behind the Nabucco project.

The realization of the Nabucco project hangs in the air due to the inability to reach agreement with potential suppliers of gas. However, participants in the project – the Austrian OMV, the Hungarian MOL, the Bulgarian Bulgargas, the Romanian Transgaz, the Turkish Botas and the German RWT periodically try to make a bad situation look good, claiming that their seriously ailing child has good prospects. Perhaps keeping up pretenses have already bored the comrades to death, and Mr. Yudish could no longer live the lie at the Berlin Forum. He said that his company which has invested about 20 million Euros in the Nabucco project wants a speedy start of construction work.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Thursday called for an end to the ongoing bloodshed in Libya and the start of political dialogue, the Kremlin said.

The two leaders, who discussed the situation in the North African country by telephone, stressed the need for all parties concerned “to act strictly in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions,” the Kremlin said.

“Priority at this stage should, without doubt, be given to ensuring the security of civilians,” they said, according to the Kremlin statement.

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The head of the political department of the United Russia party Aleksei Chadayev has sent in his resignation from the post, after he criticized Russia’s official stance on situation in Libya in his personal blog. He strongly criticized Russia’s official stance on Libya, saying that joining the international community in condemnation of Muammar Gaddafi is a mistake that could eventually “cost President Medvedev his political future”…

Hummm…

The lines are being drawn and being crossed and most that I see, really dislike most policies that are being instigated right now. Instead of making things better it seems to be causing turmoil and flight of capital and personnel from the rich in Russia…

Experts tend to link the recent capital flight from Russia to President Dmitry Medvedev. Outflows from the Russian rich intensified after the September 28 firing of Yury Luzhkov, Moscow’s mayor for 18 years, according to Alexei Moiseyev, chief economist at VTB Capital. Officials who were concerned that his ouster might prompt more dismissals or a crackdown on corruption sent their money out of Russia, Moiseyev told Bloomberg in an interview.

Then…

Vladimir Mau, the rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy, who also advises the government’s anti-crisis commission, said that more than just money is leaving Russia en masse. “Not just money, but top managers themselves are fleeing with their children, who are sent to study abroad,” Mau said. “Faith in the future of the Russian economy has been reduced to zero, and this is exemplified in the behavior of the rich.”

Another Hummm… (Is that what Medvedev wants?)

Gotta love Russia…

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Looks like France’s Sarkozy stepped in a pair of boots too big for him…

Russia Today is in France doing a news report. It really look like Russia Today has infiltrated almost everywhere in the West now days. They are also in Libya doing reports and of course Russia Today does lots of nice reports on America. It is definitely different reports on the West than what the Western press wants to hear…

France will not be happy about this video…

Good for Russia Today…

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It seems that Windows to Russia has a gremlin in the comment section. We are now back to original comments and being spammed like no tomorrow. This happened because the Google Friend Connect system completely invaded our system and even took over our profile section. I at one point had to completely reinstall the blog because it locked me out of my admin. At first I thought Virus but that was quickly removed from the equation and every time I tried to use Friend Connect, I would find code in my email section, comments full of Friend Connect code and about half a dozen other issues…

So a sorry is in order and I am doing some study on it, but that means I can not use it (Friend Connect) until I figure out what the heck is going on. So I rewrote the comment code and took out Friend Connect and all is working great except for I have 523 spam since yesterday and the number is climbing at a fast pace. But to be truthful I have had two dozen legit comments amongst the bad and also discovered that I was missing any and all mobile phone comments… (That I will also apology for and will correct it.)

So I guess I know what I will be doing this weekend and will be spending time coding the blog again. It has been a never ending battle with comments…

Another issues against Friend Connect is that I can not move the comments from it to WordPress so maybe this is on purpose to make me reconsider the comment system on Windows to Russia…

The WordPress system is wonderful for comments but it also is a spam magnet and makes life a living hell with comments. If I block them with a spam plugin like Askismet. I still have to go through each and everyone to check and verify so it means nothing to have it in effect. It just adds more work to checking comments. If I allow Askismet to delete comments that it calls spam then I never see the good comments and believe me, it calls more than a few good comments spam. I get spammed all the time at other sites that use spam control and it seems to be an automatic thing with ip’s from Russia. In fact I gave up on many blogs to comment because they never posted my comment after it was caught in the spam filter…

As far as aftermarket comments: Intense Debate, Disqus and other similar systems are spam magnets. You must moderate and check any and all comments. I can do that with the original WordPress comment system because I can set it to hold all comments until I say OK…

Someday I will have a system that allows us to comment and be posted then and there. The nearest thing was Google Friend Connect and now it went crazy…

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