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Putin Talks Over Lunch...

Putin is on a two thousand kilometer trip that has allowed him time to do some relaxing. On this trip he is expressing what he feels and thinks. Putin is being Putin again…

Putin stressed that opposition movements – all of whom stand for the rule of law – must also stick to the law and obtain official permission before staging a rally…

“What is a lawful state? It is abiding by the law. What does the current legislation say on the [opposition] march? You should get permission from local authorities. Have you got it? Then you can go out and demonstrate. If not, you have no right. If you went out without a right to do so – expect a baton to the skull. That’s it!” he said…

The comments referred to the so-called Dissenters March in support of Article 31 of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly. About ten times now, human right activists and the opposition have attempted to stage rallies on the last day of each month that has 31 days. However, each time the gathering ends up with clashes with police and arrests, as Moscow authorities banned the demonstration at the capital’s central Triumfalnaya Square and the protesters insist they want no other site to stage their rally…

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Putin has been expressing himself a lot more recently. The problem is that he is correct…

I see an presidential election coming…

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Dmitry Medvedev announced this decision in his blog. The President instructed the Government to suspend the implementation of the resolution on the motorway construction through the Khimki Forest and to conduct further public and expert discussions on the issue.

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Hello,

Seems that men in Russia get in trouble with women as much as they do in America, especially when they provoke the women with a, ’Driving Rules for a True Lady’ manual…
Traffic police in Siberia have risked incurring the wrath of the fairer sex with a new guidebook telling women how to bring their driving up to scratch. The controversial document, ‘Driving rules for a true lady’, claims female drivers flirt with passing males, park in the middle of the street and only use the rear view mirror for putting on make-up.

The booklet, which has a pink cover, aims to draw attention to female motorists’ most common mistakes.

But despite its lack of political correctness, police in Krasnoyarsk say they don’t want to cause offense, but are trying to make the roads safer.

They came up with the idea after noticing the number of road accidents caused by women is growing rapidly.

“Women certainly are just as good drivers as men are,” said a police officer. But he added that they suffered a great deal of trouble because of stilettos and tight skirts, which restrained body movement.

However female drivers have complained at being singled out. They say they don’t see why a similar booklet wasn’t made for men, who are accountable for more then a half of all accidents on the road.

“It’s a pretty offensive text and they seem to have written it for idiots, not responsible drivers,” says one driver, Maria. “When someone is at the wheel their gender is irrelevant. They either follow the rules or they don’t.”

Another said: “This is banality. Especially the color. I think women are the most careful drivers.”

But Nadezhda, another Krasnoyarsk driver, said the booklet won’t change anything, because some women drivers “think they are beyond the rules”.

Krasnoyarsk police’s ’Driving rules for a true lady’:

#1. A true lady never breaks traffic rules because she respects the law.

#2. A true lady uses rear-view mirrors to check the road, not her appearance.

#3. A true lady won’t start a race against a male driver.

#4. A true lady will make way for another car when rules call for it – even if it means making way for a man.

#5. A true lady shall never use a mobile phone without a hands-free kit, even to learn the latest news on sales and discounts.

#6. Keeping her car fit is as important for a true lady as taking care of her looks.

#7. A true lady doesn’t flirt at the wheel and doesn’t get distracted by the looks of passing men. She knows it’s in bad taste.

#8. A true lady never sees the middle of the road as “a convenient spot to park the car”.

#9. A true lady always keeps her papers in order and in one place.

#10. A true lady keeps to her lane and uses indicator signals when she wants to change.

Looks like the traffic cops in Krasnoyarsk are looking to get in trouble! What do you think, Would this go over in America or the UK? 🙂

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

I talked about last year that the word Depression would be brought up after the first of the year. Guess what? I have in the last week seen reference to the coming depression amongst all the major news sources and even seen several podcasts about the Global Depression that we are going toward.

I really wish this was not true but I also will not fool myself…

This year will see a major economic breakdown followed by worldwide riots, as people who have lost everything rebel against the situation, where those in power save themselves at the expense of everyone else.

This is according to the forecast by Gerald Celente of The Trends Research Institute of New York, who successfully predicted the panic of 2008.

The global crisis will only get worse according to Celente and turn into the greatest depression in modern history.

He compares the world economy with the cruise liner Titanic. The ship is sinking, he says, and spaces on the lifeboats are few.

Even now people who suffered from the global crisis are ready to resort to violence, as the reports from Iceland, Latvia and Lithuania indicate. As the meltdown continues, the situation will only get worse.

I got a lot of hate mail over the fact that I expressed the word “Depression” before the end of 2008 and many think that if you do not think or say it that it will never happen.

It is going to get rough…

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

• Gerald Celente: Wall Street runs the US, but will collapse before 2011 (politics.ie)
• Draining the Treasury With Wars and Foreign Entanglements (lewrockwell.com)
• gerald celente: 2009 crash “worse than the great depression” (atomiurl.com)
• The Crash Is Coming Before 2011 (lewrockwell.com)
• On the Edge with Gerald Celente – 20 August 2010 (1/3)… (projectworldawareness.com)
• Successful Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente Sees “Greatest Depression” Soon (grantlawrence.blogspot.com)
• Depression, Then Another Fake War (lewrockwell.com)
• Gerald Celente: US oligopoly is a big lie (investmentpostcards.com)
• And Now We’re Headed For The GREATEST Depression, Says Gerald Celente (businessinsider.com)
• From Russia: The Writing Is On The Wall – America! (windowstorussia.com)

When Sveta and I travel, we look at everything. Well we found this beautiful Church. We think it is Orthodox…

In Russia back in the old days. The churches were all closed. They were boarded up and sometimes blown up. This church was 400 km from Moscow, so that is maybe, what saved it from being blown up?

We thought that you might like to see a church from the past. Still has paintings on the wall, but very faded. The roof is caving in slowly. There are trees growing on the roof.

If any one has a idea of what era and what religion this church is let me know. From what we see in Russia it is Orthodox.

We wish we had the money to buy it, we would fix it up and enjoy it, make a museum out of it…

You can feel God is still there, when you stand in the middle of it.

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• Orthodoxy contra Darwinism? (beliefnet.com)
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• The Courage to Be Orthodox (palamas.info)
• The Church: That God Has Not Forgot! (windowstorussia.com)

The Russian businessman Victor Bout has committed no crime according to many Russian sources…

The crime committed was by the USA Government…

The USA government agencies were happy to employ Bout’s services in the past, while now they accuse him of illegal arms deliveries.

It seems that Victor Bout was a major USA arms deliverer, prior to the invasion of Iraq. The USA lacked the sufficient number of transport planes to transfer military cargoes to the troops. So they hired people like Bout to deliver their goods…

At that time in history it was more important to deliver cargoes to the troops, than to worry about what kind of person the deliverer would be. So in effect no questions asked and money under the table…

“The Bout case is an unfriendly gesture initiated by the US and may hurt the reset of bilateral relations!”  Said, Russia’s Foreign Ministry official Vladimir Kozin.

Kozin also believes that suspected arms smuggler Viktor Bout is innocent, that’s why Moscow is rendering him “firm support”.

Viktor Bout was arrested in Thailand under a USA request in the spring of 2008 which accused him of trafficking weapons. The very same thing he had done for years, for America…

Never I say Never Trust the American Government and do their dirty work. They will get you in the end, to silence you…

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• Russian says Bout “ballyhoo” may hurt reset with U.S. (reuters.com)
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• Viktor Bout moved to high-security Thai prison (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Viktor Bout, Suspected Russian Arms Smuggler, To Be Extradited To U.S. (huffingtonpost.com)
• US-Russia await Thai court ruling Friday on extradition of alleged top arms dealer Viktor Bout (foxnews.com)
• Viktor Bout: five passports, half a dozen languages and alleged friend to all sides (guardian.co.uk)
• U.S. to extradite Viktor Bout from Thailand (sfgate.com)
• Thailand to extradite suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout (guardian.co.uk)
• ‘Merchant of Death’: Who is Viktor Bout? (channel4.com)
• Viktor Bout case: US concern over possible freedom (sfgate.com)

This is a very touchy situation in Russia right now. One thing that many Russians like is their forests and if you destroy them for no reason they can get a little testy…

Russians can live with the same leader forever but don’t mess with their trees. 🙂

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• Majority party appeals to Medvedev over disputed highway project (rt.com)
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Our 310221 Volga Wagon - named Sammy...

That cup of coffee this morning was wonderful and it got me thinking about what I did to the Volga car this weekend. While in the village, I decided to do a little adjusting on our Volga and make her run better…

I had to remove one of our fuel systems to get around technical difficulties. The propane had to come off for an overhaul. Then it got hotter than the ace of spades and I never was able to finish the job…

Well this weekend I got the job done. We drove to the village on petrol and came home on gas. (petrol is gasoline and gas is propane) The difference in cost is amazing. Petrol 80 octane is 18.5 roubles right now and gas is 11.5 roubles. The difference is not as striking as many would see because we burn the cheapest petrol. Most have to spend 22+ roubles for 92 or above octane… (Our Volga burns anything… 🙂 )

But the cost of propane (gas) has not gone up in the last year and it is a wonderfully stable and clean fuel…

The only issue that I ran into was I am going to have to pick up another solenoid valve for diverting the petrol flow when I use gas. I forgot to get that part and of course it is the part that is needing replaced. It works and you just have to smack it with a screwdriver handle once in a while and tell it who is boss. 🙂

Sveta was so happy that we were purring along on propane that she is ready to go on a whole bunch more excursions all over Russia…

So am I!

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Grab Some Quick News...

Russian airlines hiked up their passenger transportation by 29.8 percent to 31.168 million people in the first seven months of 2010, the press office of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency reported today.

During the reporting period, passenger traffic climbed 35.2 percent to 80.211bn passenger-kilometers, and cargo traffic stood at 2.615bn tonne-kilometers, showing a rise of 45.8 percent.

Aeroflot – Russian Airlines alone transported 6.286m people (up 32.5 percent), and its passenger traffic equaled 19.3bn passenger-kilometers (up 38.3 percent). In July, all airlines increased the number of transported passengers by 25.7 percent to 6.601 million people, and passenger traffic rose 28.3 percent to 16.592bn passenger-kilometers.

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Russia’s inflation in the first seven months of the year was third in Europe, lower only than that in Malta and Romania, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service’s (Rosstat) report based on publications by Eurostat. In January-July 2010, the increase in consumer prices in Russia amounted to 4.8 percent, to 5.5 percent in Malta, and 5.4 percent in Romania. The European Union‘s average inflation stood at 1.1 percent in the reporting period.

In July alone, consumer prices went up the most in Romania (2.6 percent), Malta (0.6 percent), Bulgaria and Canada (0.5 percent). In Russia, consumer prices inched up 0.4 percent compared to June of this year. At the same time, the average inflation level slid 0.2 percent in the EU.

In the EU, the highest increase in food prices was registered in Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovenia (0.8-1.9 percent). In Russia, prices for food products edged up 0.3 percent in July compared to the previous month.

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Ukraine‘s government is poised to insist on revising existing agreements on the price of gas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov announced during the cabinet meeting today, RBC Ukraine reported. “We intend to revise the extremely unprofitable agreement between Ukraine and Russia and will strongly insist on the need for our Russian partners to do so,” Azarov explained.

The official reiterated that Kiev continued to purchase natural gas from Russia and pay in accordance with the formula that provided for a quarterly price increase. “In the first quarter of 2010, we received gas at $330 per 1,000 cubic meters and the price has gone up quarterly by $25 per 1,000 cubic meters. Consequently, the price for gas will exceed $390 per 1,000 cubic meters in the fourth quarter of this year,” Azarov stated. According to him, the signing of the so-called Kharkov agreement allowed Kiev to bring the price for gas down $100 per 1,000 cubic meters.

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Moldova‘s Prime Minister Vladimir Filat has paid a visit to the Transnistria region for the first time as the head of the Moldovan parliament. He met with leader of Transnistria Igor Smirnov and State Security Minister Vladimir Antyufeyev late on Tuesday. The country’s government reported to RBC that Filat and Smirnov discussed a wide array of issues, but noted that he would relay the contents of the conversation to journalists later. Filat and Smirnov most likely discussed matters related to the settlement of the Transnistria conflict and the improvement of trust between Chisinau and Tiraspol.

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Gazprom and Naftogaz are also discussing the possibility of a merger of the two companies, in several stages. On June 25 of this year, Miller announced that the Russian company had already made proposals on certain major gas fields that could be contributed to the joint venture.

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Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has approved the city’s draft budget for 2011 with a deficit exceeding RUB 100.8bn (approx. USD 3.29bn).

According to Luzhkov’s announcement at Moscow’s government meeting today, in its parameters, the document has been formed quite precisely and thoroughly. At the same time, the mayor indicated that the budget was socially-oriented, as in previous years.

The approved decree on Moscow’s budget for 2011 and the mid-term financial plan for 2011-2013 provides for a budget revenue of RUB 1.192 trillion (approx. USD 38.95bn), and expenditures of RUB 1.293 trillion (approx. USD 42.25bn). Consequently, the planned expenditures are expected to exceed revenue by RUB 100.804bn (approx. USD 3.29bn).

The financing of the projected budget deficit will be carried out by borrowing funds.

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Between August 17 and 23, consumer prices climbed 0.2 percent in Russia, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said. For the month to August 23, inflation reached 0.6 percent, and 5.4 percent for the year to date. For reference, similar month-to-date prices grew a modest 0.2 percent in 2009, while those for the year to date reached 8.3 percent. In August 2009 as a whole, the prices showed no changes.

http://www.rbcnews.com/

That’s all Folks…

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