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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 articlesContinue reading What’s Happening in Libya? Asks Russia With Dismay…

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 membersContinue reading Two members of Russian ‘spy ring’ file property claim against U.S.

Two of Moscow’s main airports, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, are to be merged and sold as part of the country’s privatization program, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Together with the Moscow mayor, Transport Minister and Finance Ministry officials we have agreed to unify Sheremetyevo airport, in which the Russian government holds a 100%Continue reading Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo airports to be merged and privatized says Putin

As I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee this morning. I was doing some thinking’s about the bad habits and issues that I have dropped since coming to Russia… For those that follow the blog from the beginning you know that I use to smoke, I liked my beers, I was taking anti-depressants, IContinue reading That Cup of Coffee: My Last bad habit in Russia…

The military intervention by the Western-led coalition force in Libya’s civil war is out of tune with the relevant UN Security Council resolution, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “We believe that the coalition’s intervention in the civil war [in Libya] has not, essentially, been sanctioned by the UN Security Council resolution,” said,Continue reading Russia’s Sergei Lavrov: Coalition Forces are out of tune with the UN resolution…

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized the UN Security Council resolution on Libya for allowing foreign military intervention in a sovereign state. Putin called the resolution “defective and flawed,” adding that “it allows everything and is reminiscent of a medieval call for a crusade.” Putin noted that Russia, which abstained on the UN. resolutionContinue reading Putin finds opportunity in Libya…

Russia is threatening a political crisis and the Russian government is less legitimate in the eyes of the citizens, from the report by the Center for Strategic Research. Ending this political crisis requires fair elections, the loss of most of the “United Russia” people in the State Duma and the substitution of the first threeContinue reading Seems Russians Would Like Versatility in Politics…

What you see above is a cruise missile in action. They have been hitting the capital of Libya with these… The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians… However, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dismissed assertions by the Libyan government that coalition strikes have killed nearly 200 civilians. In a taped interview with AmericanContinue reading Libya: The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians…

Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, says she bears no ill will towards the man who betrayed her. And why should she? Since being freed as part of a dramatic spy swap deal in Vienna in JulyContinue reading Anna Chapman: Agent provocateur

Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive legacy. An official guide at the wrecked nuclear power plant, he waves his radiation counter at a group of abandoned Soviet army vehicles that were used in the battle to clean up the contamination created by the reactor explosion in 1986. “Some of theseContinue reading Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape