Georgia: Drones and More Drones?


Hello,

I think this makes 5 drones that have been shot down. Georgia has got to run out of drones…..Update: Georgia had acquired a total of 40 drones, worth around $2 million each, from Israel between 2006 and 2008. So looks like there may be a lot of drones shot down…..

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia shot down another Georgian spy drone on Thursday, its Defence Ministry said, although Tbilisi immediately denied the allegation from the Russian-backed rebels. Minutes before the announcement, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had told visiting Russian reporters war between Georgia and Russia over the status of Abkhazia had been only narrowly averted days earlier but remained a real threat. According to the Abkhazian authorities this was the third Georgian drone it had shot down in the last five days.

Yes I went back and counted: 5 drones shot down, out of total 6 drones spotted. For some reason Abkhazian did not knock down one drone spotted the other day.

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Just Some News From Russia…


RBC News Ticker presents:

Grab a Cup Of Coffee...

During a meeting with participants of the discussion club in Sochi, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that neither he, nor President Dmitry Medvedev were planning to do anything that would violate Russian legislation when it comes to the 2012 presidential election. According to the prime minister, both he and Medvedev will act on the basis of the actual situation in the country, the Russian government’s press office reported.

Some More…

According to the Russian Agriculture Ministry, Russia has sufficient grain reserves, Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik announced at today’s State Council presidium meeting on domestic food market regulations. The ministry estimates the grain harvest at about 60m-65m tonnes in 2010. This amount coupled with the reserves will ensure the domestic demand currently projected at 77m tonnes. “There are no reasons to expect abrupt price increases or a food product deficit,” Skrynnik said, noting that any price increases were merely speculative.

Some More…

According to Lavrov, “NATO has been hovering ‘between the past and the future’ for far too long.” The minister believes that the recent discussions on preparing a new strategic concept for NATO are a direct outcome of this situation. “We would like to see the alliance complete its political transformation into a modern organization in the sphere of ensuring security, demonstrate its willingness to participate in a partnership with other players, including Russia, on a parity basis, and fully comply with international laws,” Lavrov stressed.

Some More…

Ukraine has demonstrated the first signs of economic stabilization, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich announced at the opening of the Verkhovna Rada‘s fall session today. According to him, the country’s GDP growth exceeded 6 percent and industrial production reached 11 percent in the first six months of 2010.

Some More…

The Economic Court of the CIS has given Moscow and Minsk one month for an out-of-court settlement of the matter on Russia’s duties on oil products supplied to Belarus, the court’s press office reported to RBC. Consequently, the court granted Russia’s request for an extrajudicial dispute resolution.

Some More…

When asked about the possibility of decreasing the gas price for Gazprom, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Masimov indicated to journalists that the matter of the export gas price between Russia and Kazakhstan had already been settled and was not subject to discussion. He reiterated that the two countries had established a price policy and signed an agreement. “The price has been fixed, and Russia has not brought up the matter,” he stated.

Some More…

Trade between Russia and Ukraine may reach its pre-crisis level by the end of 2010, Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Yelchenko stated at a press conference today. The diplomat reiterated that trade between the two countries reached its peak in 2008, when it amounted to $40bn.

Some More…

Ukraine hopes that the price for natural gas supplied from Russia, which Kiev considers unfair and non-market, will be revised, Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Yelchenko stated at a press conference today. “We really do believe that this price is unfair. We find the price formula devised by the country’s previous government in 2009 to be incomprehensible. Moreover, the situation on the oil and gas market is completely different today than it was in 2009. The prices are sinking, and we would like these new conditions to be reflected in the price that we plan to suggest to Russia,” he explained. The diplomat indicated that the Ukrainian prime minister was personally supervising the gas price issue, and noted that the PM had paid several visits to Moscow to participate in talks. “Hopefully, we will hear some good news in the near future,” Yelchenko said.

Some More…

The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is likely to become effective before the end of the year, Speaker of the Russian State Duma Boris Gryzlov announced at today’s opening of the fall session. He stressed that the treaty’s implementation could be an important factor in ensuring global security. Gryzlov also indicated, however, that the U.S. Senate was in the middle of an election campaign, which could affect the treaty’s ratification on the part of the U.S.

Some More…

Kazakhstan’s parliament has offered Russia the chance to create a joint grain terminal project in the Far East, speaker of the lower chamber of Kazakhstan’s parliament Romin Madinov announced at a conference today. According to him, such a terminal should have a capacity of 200,000-300,000 tonnes of storage and handling.

Some More…

Gazprom is currently supplying 18m cubic meters of natural gas to Turkey via the Blue Stream gas pipeline, official spokesman for the Russian energy holding Sergei Kupriyanov told journalists today, noting that this amount equaled the amount supplied prior to the accident in Iran. “For 10 days, Gazprom assisted its Turkish partners in overcoming the consequences of an explosion on a stretch of a gas pipeline from Iran,” he stated, adding that the Russian company had supplied a total of 426m cubic meters of gas from August 25 to September 4. At certain times, daily supplies reached 42m cubic meters at Turkey’s request.

That is it. Original Source RBC

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There is Grain and A Lot More Than You All Admit…


Grain...

This is interesting and backs up what I have been saying from the news coming out of Russia and the Presidential Blog…

Russia will cancel its grain export embargo as soon as the situation with the grain harvest becomes clear, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.”As for the grain embargo, it is a compulsory but interim measure,” Medvedev told agricultural producers in central Russia. “As soon as we understand how much we have harvested, the embargo will be canceled. You shouldn’t even doubt that.”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last week that the embargo would be canceled only after next year’s crop was harvested and the size of the country’s grain stock was clear.

Russia imposed a grain export ban on August 15 until December 31, causing a significant spike in grain prices on international markets.

VORONEZH, Russia, September 6 (RIA Novosti)

Hummm…

Makes you wonder and start thinking about games being played…

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I Think The Snow is Winning: from Windows to Russia!


Winter weather in Europe causes travel chaos:
Severe winter weather continued its stranglehold on Europe as travelers battled heavy snow, airlines canceled flights and motorists were left stranded.

Moscow presses on while snow storms cripple Europe & US:
Widespread blizzards have brought America‘s East Coast and parts of Europe to a standstill over the last few days, but Moscow has battled through the heavy snows thanks to a finely tuned operation.

Stuck passengers endure misery at airports:
(CNN) — Monday, the official first day of winter, airlines were scrambling to accommodate passengers affected by the cancellation of hundreds of flights after a monster weekend winter storm blanketed a swath of the East Coast.

had to chuckle when I saw this video that Russia Today put together. I am not sure that I agree with Russia Today that Moscow was ready and on top of things, but after what I saw happening in America and Europe. I realized that the snow whooped everyone involved and asked no questions and took no names…

I will say, Moscow did better this time than the last snow a few weeks ago!

Really the video is good!

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comments always welcome.

The USA: Pastor Phillip Miles!


Hundreds & Hundreds of new articles about Pastor Phillip Miles! Everyone jumping up & down about unfair Russian legal system. Where was everyone for the past two months? We have 10 articles about Pastor Miles and everyone acts like they just heard about it.

Wake Up America, Pastor Miles has been in jail for two months.


Hello,

Today I was drinking my coffee and thinking about Pastor Phillip Miles.

In the last few days Windows to Russia has been overwhelmed with thousands of Goggle hits.

The world has woke up that Phillip Miles is in trouble, very deep trouble!

I have stayed on this story because I was hoping that people in the USA would take it seriously. I have given as much information about Phillip Miles that I could give. I have received many comments (many unprintable) I printed all that did not call me every name in the book. Many of these were from Church organizations.

I am an American living in Russia! I know very well what can happen if you mess up. I hope that you all have learned what can happen if you mess up. American Mentality does not work in the rest of the world, you must have World Mentality to survive.

I have traced many views of Windows to Russia over the past few months to the, Department of State of the USA, Washington DC, South Carolina State Gov. and many other government organizations. Sad that they did not see to it that Miles was brought home.

I watched web links appear then block my IP as they realized that I was printing information. I saw that, as people in the USA running from the fact that Pastor Miles was in trouble. I saw Churches writing articles about what happened, but never saying to do anything but, Pray to God. I saw Miles cousin on a forum website try to help. He mysteriously got quiet! That was a mistake! (Everyone should have been screaming at the top of their lungs.) I see many people say things like he deserved it. I saw a lot of sad things over this situation……….

From the beginning all information pointed to Miles going to jail, people tell me they knew what was happening from the very beginning. Then why did they have lawyers using tactics such as American Mentality & non knowledge of the laws. Those tactics might work with Suzy Q and her first time to Russia, but Miles was a seasoned Traveler. Miles traveled during Soviet Era when times were much stricter.

You all have one more chance to try to scream loud enough! He has an appeal allowed to him. Maybe now it is time to put Political pressure on. Playing the silent game & praying did not work….. Time to put the pressure on!

I was taught,”God helps those who help themselves!”

I say, be glad that you are not in his shoes.

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

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Nabucco Pipeline, Has it Been Checked or Checkmated…


Sign The Deal...

I saw this and smiled today. I was wondering if Medvedev was going to do, what I thought he was going to do and he did…

Azerbaijan is going to sell all its gas to Russia’s Gazprom.The picture above is President Dmitry Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilkham Aliyev signing the contract…

Under an agreement reached during talks in Baku between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Ilkham Aliyev, 2 billion cubic meters will be pumped to Russia next year and over 2 billion in 2012.

Analysts say the decision will become a serious blow to the Nabucco gas pipeline, which is designed to transport Caspian gas into Europe bypassing Russia.

According to the General Director of the Energy Security Foundation Konstantin Simonov, the Nabucco pipe cannot be filled without gas from Azerbaijan.

Original Source: Voice of Russia

(Ouch – Do you think Russia knew that going into talks with Azerbaijan?) 🙂

Talk about stirring up the Western World

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  • UPDATE 1-Gazprom may consider buying BP Azeri assets (reuters.com)
  • Gazprom may consider buying BP Azeri assets (reuters.com)
  • Azerbaijan sees full Turkey gas deal by March 2011 (reuters.com)
  • Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
  • Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan (sfgate.com)
  • Karzai and Medvedev… (windowstorussia.com)

Is it Becoming Harder to be an Expat in Russia?


As in the whole world, companies in Russia have resorted to job cuts over the past twelve months to stay afloat! Foreign workers were hit hard by these cuts and more than two thirds of expats in Russia have lost their jobs and have had to go home…

The brunt of these expats are upper management with big corporations, that “trimmed the fat” so to speak. Russia has a much better trained management core of workers now than they did even a few years ago. So the need for expats to consultant and train is virtually non existent.

This was an inevitable situation, even with out the financial crises. I have done multiple studies and reports on what I call the McDonald’s Syndrome. One of the by products of a McDonald’s society is a huge influx of well trained management due to an extensive management training program that McDonald’s incorporates in societies that they flourish in. This management team can spread to all aspects of the society and as such, diminish the need for outside influence in the respective fields.

The question that I have and will be studying is: Will these jobs come back in time or are they lost forever? (I hedge on forever!)

Windows to Russia!
comments always welcome.

Beginning of Meeting with President of the United States Barack Obama


July 6, 2009,
The Kremlin, Moscow

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Mr. President, Barak, distinguished members of the American delegation,

On this occasion I would like to welcome you in the Kremlin, and it is our expectation that during the deliberations we will have today and tomorrow we will have a full-fledged discussion of the relations between our two countries, closing some of the pages of the past and opening some of the pages of the future.

Among those difficult questions our countries are tackling together, are those pertaining to economy, security and strategic offensive elements, and it is my hope that it will be possible for us to tackle successfully these problems jointly.

So once again I would like to welcome you all and to wish you success.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. Well, let me just thank President Medvedev and his entire delegation for the extraordinary hospitality. We are confident that we can continue to build off the excellent discussions that we had in London. And that on the whole host of issues including security issues, economic issues, energy issues, environmental issues that the United States and Russia have more in common that they have differences. And that if we work hard during these next few days, that we can make extraordinary progress that will benefit the people of both countries.

So we are very much looking forward to our meetings. And again I want to thank not only you, Mr President, but the people of Russia for hosting us today. We are very glad to be in Moscow.

DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Even the weather favours such an intercourse between us since it is going to be chilly outside and it is better to work inside.

BARACK OBAMA: We might as well be inside today. Although the last time I was here in Moscow it was 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

More to come—

15 Tons of Aid for Fire Victims is Thrown Away…


It seems that some officials in the fire struck regions decided that the aid sent from Siberia was not worth keeping…

This is the best translation of the crime that I can do from multiples of sources…

Following the Ryazan region, where the landfill has been identified humanitarian aid for residents of burned villages, a similar situation occurred in neighboring Mordovia. This is two dump areas that have been discovered of goods that were sent by villages from other areas of Russia.

These dumps contained new and used items…

It turned out that a landfill in Saransk was found with new high-quality leather and fur coats and blue jeans. Things are sorted and packed into boxes and bags into different categories such as: “bedding”, “winter clothes“, “women shoes”. All items were o shipments of goods that were to help the people who lost everything in the summer fires…

Interestingly, some discarded items are preserved with even sales reciept. This was done so people would understand that items were new and not used…

The investigators will conduct an audit and will address the issue of measures of prosecutions for responsible people. According to investigators, the village of Fresh (?), of the Shatsky District, sent the Ryazan region two trucks with humanitarian cargo weighing about 15 tons. It comprised of shoes and clothes were to be distributed among those affected by forest fires. That aid is part of the dumped supplies found…

It seems that one official has already been fired over this. I really find it hard to believe that someone would do this:

An official in the Ryazan region, one of the areas most affected by this summer’s fires, has been fired after it became known that she had dumped humanitarian aid intended for fire victims.

The head of a local social aid center, Svetlana Dardykina, said she had no room to stock the clothes and that most of them were old and not fit for use.

However, locals say many things were brand new and even had checks attached.

Aleksandr Shustin, from the logistics company which delivered the 15-ton cargo from Siberia to the Ryazan region, confirmed this: “We packed the aid ourselves, there was no garbage, no old useless things,” he said.

These people lost everything in these fires and a pair of shoes or a new coat is like the world to these people. These items were sent by people who care and want to help from all over Russia…

Looks like the only useless things I see in this, are officials who do not care about their people that live in their area that they are suppose to be helping…

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