Russian News From Russia… (02-07-2011)

Two suspected terrorists behind Moscow airport blast named:
A police source has identified two men who have been put on the wanted list for alleged links to the terror attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport…

Moscow calls on Tokyo to take reasonable approach over Kuril Islands:
Japanese are marking another Northern Territory Day with protests, while Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov advised them to take current realities into account…

2 Russian icebreakers rescue oil tankers:
Once the Krasin and Admiral Makarov icebreakers rescued five icebound ships from captivity late last month, they have been engaged since Sunday in piloting oil tankers to the freezing De-Kastri terminal and back, in the Khabarovsk Region, in the Russian Far East…

Flu quarantine extended at Moscow schools:
Moscow’s health authorities have extended flu quarantine for another two days in kindergartens as well as primary and middle schools, media reports said on Monday. Right now, flu epidemic shows no signs of abating in about 60 Russian regions, medics said…

Japanese radicals desecrate Russian flag:
Japanese radicals have desecrated the Russian flag outside the Russian embassy in Tokyo. The incident occurred earlier today when the Japanese ultra right organizations marked the “day of northern territories”, – that is the Russian islands of the South Kuril Range that Japan lays claims to…

Fearful Russian lawmaker flees to U.S.:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wealthy Russian lawmaker has fled with his family to the United States, saying he fears assassination over accusations that some of Russia’s richest and most influential people swindled him in a real estate deal. Back home, he’s been charged with financial crimes…

Russia to present Sochi Olympics mascot candidates:
On Monday, Russia’s broadcaster Channel One will present 13 candidates for the official mascot of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A brief TV show, in which animated characters would call on Russians to support them in the nationwide SMS-vote, is due to begin later in the day…

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START in Question if US Expands Anti Ballistic Missiles…

Russia will consider the sense of observing of the strategic arms reduction treaty (START) if the US or NATO change the scale of their missile defense systems, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov said Monday.He said if the US continues to build up its missile defense system, Moscow will have to take measures of a “military technical” nature…

Funny how we do not want to hear what Russia is saying about all this…

Ryabkov stressed that the link between offensive and defensive weapons is binding under START.

But I realize that the mainstream press in America is praising the wonderful achievement that Obama pulled off, as if it was a miracle in international security and vision for the future…

Kinda like this miracle and vision: WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets… in return for START…

Hummm…

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Iron Maiden Rocking in Moscow… (Feb. 11th, 2011)

Iron Maiden...

Iron Maiden’s – Final Frontier World Tour will see the band play 29 total shows and visit 26 cities all in 13 countries. The performance in Moscow is on February 11, 2011…

It is said that Iron Maiden is one of the  premier heavy metal bands in the world and has affected more rockers around the world than any other heavy metal band. With their hits like Run to the Hills, The Trooper, Fear of the Dark and Aces High you never have to worry about staying in touch with the darker side of life…

Friday 11 February 2011
Iron Maiden
Olimpiisky Arena Moscow, Russian Federation…

OK – well I care…

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Russian Video From Russia: Check this out on the bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport…

Doku Umarov, Amir of the Caucasus Emirate, ex-...
Doku Umarov...

Check this out on our Video Blog… (Russian Video From Russia)

http://video.kylekeeton.com/2011/02/russian-video-doku-umarov-behind-bombing-at-moscow%E2%80%99s-domodedovo-airport.html

This Sunday news in Russia is controversial and turmoil, plus being presented hot and heavy all over the country. These videos that Sveta posted are videos of Russia’s most wanted terrorist, Doku Umarov. In these videos Umarov has warned of more terrorist acts to follow, promising Russia “a year of blood and tears.”…

Interesting…

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Pravda Digital Archive From 1912 to 2009…

Click Google search above to go to link…

I found this wonderful archive of the old Pravda newspaper. It is the archives of the paper from 1912 to 2009. It seems to me though that when they stopped publishing Bolshevik propaganda in 1991, they became a tabloid of much lessor worth. But the archives have what is necessary and the data from 1912 to 1991 is of interest to me… (The more modern data from this source is a dreaded tabloid variety…)

Lenin reading Pravda.
Lenin reading Pravada...

Look at it as the history of Soviet communism through the eyes of the Pravda newspaper, which by the way was founded by Vladimir Lenin, is a valuable source of information for anyone who desires. It comprises of at least 150,000 pages in PDF…

Pravda, or “Truth” as translated, was (not now though) a land mark newspaper in the Soviet Union. It was given birth in St. Petersburg by Lenin around 1912. From my understanding it was the official propaganda tool of the  Communist Party from 1917 on after a few years of a rocky start…

I have seen several articles in full and will tell you that if your interest is in this area, then this is a gold mine. Of course it is not free and at the bottom of the PDF display you will get the details of what you have to do to enjoy such a wonder of history… 🙂

Acquire the entire 1912-2009 collection of the Pravda Digital Archive for a one-time cost plus an annual maintenance fee, which is waived with a current subscription to Pravda online or a current subscription to East View’s UDB of Russian Central Newspapers.

This project is a partnership of the Russian Communist Party and a US-based company called EVIS, which specializes in Eurasian studies. Many universities and collages have signed up for the information, according to the available data. This privilege of studying Communist history has its price and I am hoping that I can find a good University access source for free, amongst my connections. Otherwise I will most likely have to ultimately purchase access…

Yes the Communist Party wants money for their history…

Hummm…

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Spam is gone and the Coffee is good…

That cup of coffee was really extra wonderful this morning. For the last two days I have had a total of 8 spam. It seems that we have “nipped it in the bud”  with the latest changes. But that saying “nipped it in the bud”  brought back a memory of Barney Fife on Mayberry always saying that quote. Then that thought brought back my past and I sipped my coffee remembering how I grew up and also raised my kids in towns like Mayberry…

Hermitage, Missouri – We never locked our doors on our house and left our keys in the ignition of the truck over night. The kids graduated from a High-school in a class of 10 kids or less. The 30-30 Winchester was in the pickup truck back windows 24 hours a day, for emergencies. You built a barn or a shed and the whole countryside came to help. The Sheriff was a good ole boy that could be trusted. You picked someone up when they fell down and kids did not bad mouth adults. Everyone always drank from the same cup at the pump at the town square. Those were the days “sigh”…

Enough of that. Back to spam! It (spam) is almost gone and that is a real reason to smile for today and enjoy a few memories and a cup of coffee…

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Coffee and Chinese Bailouts and Russian Gold…

So as I was drinking my morning cup of coffee. I was doing some thoughts on what is happening on this side of the world. Is anyone watching what the Chinese are up to in Europe? It looks to me like they are buying bonds of several + European nations that are struggling. They buy these bonds at a bargain rate after selling toxic US Treasury bonds to buy these new bargain bonds. Looks to me like they are playing Europe and America as a game. I also see by the news that Germany is relieved about the lessening of pressure to support failing countries. The fact that shows that, is Germany has opened her doors to China with multitudes of technology. In hopes of more money being transferred to Europe in support of failing countries…

The seemingly valid (or not) support for the Euro has many upsides to China. It allows China to reduce dollar dependence as they spend those dollars all over the world…

I also hear from the grapevine that China intends to convert all those toxic bonds that they have of the USA’s and convert them to Gold and Silver. Of course not all at once…

So now speaking of gold and silver: Russia has had a slew of articles making sure the world knows that they are buying gold by the tons. In fact just today there was news on the wire about how Russia is wanting private individual gold miners to have free access to mining gold in Russia. In fact it was stated something like, “The State Duma has passed adjustments to the Federal Law on Mineral Resources. The Entrepreneur for gold has support!” This it is said, is to make the availability for private individual gold miners to pan for gold legal. It seems that Russia sees this as a way to increase her huge gold supply faster and keep more people from trying to escape Siberia in search of better money… 🙂

Take it how you want, but things are changing fast in the world. Gold is becoming the stable money again. Paper is not stable…

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START Treaty is now a FART Treaty…

Obama the president of the USA signed the START Treaty. But not without exclaiming about the real issue and thorn in the treaty, that has come out with Russia:

“It is the policy of the United States to continue development and deployment of United States missile defense systems to defend against missile threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, including qualitative and quantitative improvements to such systems,” Said Obama…

“Consequently, while the United States cannot circumscribe the sovereign rights of the Russian Federation under paragraph 3 of Article XIV of the Treaty, the United States believes continued improvement and deployment of United States missile defense systems do not constitute a basis for questioning the effectiveness and viability of the Treaty, and therefore would not give rise to circumstances justifying the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the Treaty,” Said Obama…

Hummm…

That is not what Russia thinks and what Obama signed as a START Treaty makes that clear. America had changed the START Treaty and Russia responded in like form…

Now we have a START is a FART treaty…

If America farts over missile defense without Russia being happy. Oh – the stink will hit the fan…

We should have left the treaty alone as it was first presented. The new Russian wording and amendments are serious issues to Russia…

Who plays chess and who plays checkers?

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Will Terminated Mayor Yuri Luzhkov be back to Russia?

Yuri Luzhkov
Yuri Luzhkov

Yuri Luzhkov recently received a British visa to visit his family in London, England and has left Russia. This is according to a Russian based news agency, who was quoting a source close to the British Home Office…

The rumors are and have been flying like the proverbial snow in the Moscow wind.  Now – it seems to be a fact, that Yuri Luzhkov has definately left Russia. The second he crossed that big border, out came this new news on the Russian wire…
[pullquote]A probe by the State Audit Chamber revealed 230 billion roubles ($7.82 billion) of financial violations by the Moscow government over two years, declining to say when this happened. Except they made it clear that Yuri was “large and in charge…”[/pullquote]
“Russia’s financial watchdog uncovered almost $8 billion of financial violations by Moscow authorities under ousted mayor Yuri Luzhkov, highlighting the country’s battle with rampant corruption…”

Gotta love the timing of that statement of information!

What are the odds that Yuri and his billionaire wife will ever be back to Russia? What are the odds that her billions have already been moved out of Russia? If you had billions of dollars and allegations of this magnitude against you, would you step back into the fire? Hummm…

I seems that Yuri has come back with a, “I will be back to fight these allegations…”

I know what I would do! I would take my billions and go buy an island somewhere in the vast world. Get a new citizenship from Dominica 🙂 with his petty cash fund and take my learjet and travel all over the place. Let Moscow… (Well you know what I mean! :))
[pullquote]Yuri Luzhkov still has a lot of influence in Moscow politics, his continued high approval from the people have put a thorn in the Kremlin side. Besides his wife is worth $ billions of clout…[/pullquote]
But then again I know what it is about to fight for your honor and life if you really are innocent… (Link to Harassment!)

So once again, time will tell. Do you think Yuri and his wife are innocent victim of the repressed and depressed Russian society? (Sounds good doesn’t it?)

So is he a crook like almost everyone in his type of position all over the world seems to be?  Their time comes and goes but they always leave rich. But the ones that don’t leave – at least in Russia. Go to jail and are broke, for a long time…

(Yes just like Khodorkovsky…)

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This is what Israel has Feared Would Happen…

Egyptian opposition against peace treaty with Israel

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition force, will take steps to have a peace treaty with Israel canceled after President Hosni Mubarak steps down. A Muslim Brotherhood leader, Rashad al-Bayumi, told the Japanese NHK television that the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty is detrimental to the dignity and interests of Egypt and the Arab world…
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