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MOSCOW — Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team, rolled out another pet project on Monday: Russia’s first gas-electric hybrid car. The designers of the Yo claim that at about 67 miles a gallon, or 3.5 liters per 100 kilometers, it will achieve better fuel economy than theContinue reading Billionaire Backs a Gas-Electric Hybrid Car to Be Built in Russia

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & was looking over comments made earlier. We had asked Ludmila, one of our readers to explain about Christmas in Bulgaria! This is what she wrote….. Hi, Svetlana and Kyle! This is how Bulgarians celebrate Christmas and New Year: Although Bulgaria has Orthodox Church, the people celebrateContinue reading A Bulgarian Christmas…

What a wonderful little news item for this Monday… Wal-Mart Stores Closing Its Moscow Office It seems that Wal-Mart has pulled out of the attempt to enter the Russian market after Wal-Mart which been in acquisition talks with discount chain Kopeika failed. Kopeika was bought earlier this month by X5 Retail Group, Russia’s largest supermarketContinue reading Wal-Mart Closing Moscow Office…

Sveta found a great quote for me today… “Тот, кто не жалеет о разрушении СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА, у того нет сердца, а тот, кто хочет его воссоздания в прежнем виде, у того нет головы” Владимир ПУТИН Translated: “Anyone who does not regret the destruction of the Soviet Union, has no heart, and whoever wants to recreateContinue reading Coffee and a Putin Quote…

Russia Today: (Link) Mass riots that started in the center of Moscow on Saturday must be blamed on corrupt police rather than nationalist sentiment in society, Russian observers and experts agreed. A gathering of thousands of football fans to mourn their comrade killed in a street fight with men from the Northern Caucasus, ended inContinue reading Corruption, not nationalism behind latest Moscow riots…

Those behind violence in Moscow will be dealt with – Medvedev: President Dmitry Medvedev has posted a strong warning in his Twitter blog, vowing to deal with all those behind the riots that rocked the center of Moscow on Saturday, prompted by the killing of a football fan earlier… Go-ahead to START: The US SenateContinue reading Russian News Bits… (12/13/2010)

Problem: Our stimulus money gave a $141,002 federal grant to Montana State University to fund a six-week, student trip to Hangzhou, China, to study dinosaur eggs and other fossils. Opinion: Congress works for the Mafia and some Godfathers kid wanted to go to China and study dinosaurs. All levels of government have become like Russia,Continue reading The USA is Becoming Another Russia!

06PARIS7904 2006-12-26 11:11 2010-12-11 21:09 SECRET Embassy Paris VZCZCXYZ0007 PP RUEHWEB DE RUEHFR #7904/01 3601145 ZNY SSSSS ZZH P 261145Z DEC 06 FM AMEMBASSY PARIS TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3945 INFO RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW PRIORITY 5704 S E C R E T PARIS 007904 SIPDIS SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 11/21/2016 TAGS PARM, FR SUBJECT: S/CT CRUMPTONContinue reading Russia Tried to Stop the Litvinenko Poisioning But Britian said NO!