Everyone knows that the Russian Internet is full to the brim of free pirated mp3 and movie downloads. But Internet pirates should beware. The government’s battle with Internet piracy is going to be much more active starting tomorrow. According to Vedomosti the 1st of March, when the Russian militia officially become the Russian police, will […]
This morning I was doing some coffee thinking. I was thinking about several years ago (5 to be exact) when I wrote an e-mail to an American living in Russia. He had several good articles about how wonderful Russia was and how great it was in Russia. He had been in Russia for about 5 […]
BRUSSELS, February 24 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned Moscow’s partners in the West against attempts at whipping up democratic processes in other countries in connection with the ongoing events in North Africa. He was speaking at a joint news conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, devoted to the results […]
In the beginning, the USA and the EU were supportive of the Middle Eastern protests. But a column for Izvestia wrote this morning that the scale of the violence in Libya has sobered up many western politicians. The European fairytale didn’t exactly manifest itself in the Middle East and now Western governments are grabbing their […]
If the situation was not important in many ways. It would be a great cartoon to have, over the way the Western world is running around like chickens with their heads cut off over the issues in Libya… While Russia and China say, “Slow down and do not panic and do some things that you […]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired 7 Interior Ministry Generals, in particular the Chief of Moscow’s Criminal Police Alexander Ivanov and the Police Chiefs of a number of Russian regions… This is the latest in several years of a steady terminations that seem to be geared toward the cleaning of the closets of corruption… I […]
In Russia there is a version of Windows 7 that you only hear bad things about in America or never hear about it at all. A version of Windows 7 that is so cheap that you will cringe and a version of Windows 7 that does virtually anything that your Windows 7 Ultimate will do. […]
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