This tidbit of news just appeared over the wire. I have included it so that all those Anti – Russian people will have something different to look at instead of the kill all reporters stories.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was interrupted by a protestor during his speech at the Kremlin to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the country’s constitution.
In his speech, Medvedev repeated his commitment to safeguarding basic human rights and freedoms and defended the decision to extend the presidential term from four years to six.
As Medvedev was speaking, a man began shouting his opposition to the recent extension of presidential and parliamentary terms.
Security officers started to bundled the man away but the president intervened, “No, no… Let the man stay and listen… The constitution has been adopted so that everyone has the right to express his own stance. It is a stance. And it can be respected.”
It was later discovered that the protestor was Roman Dobrokhotov, a journalist from the ‘Chastny Korrespondent’ internet portal. According to some reports, he is one of the founders of ‘My’ (“Us”), a youth opposition movement. (Link)
I have seen this happen a lot more lately and it really seems that Medvedev wants to hear the good and bad from the people.
I also think that Medvedev is smart enough to realize that a journalist like Roman Dobrokhotov intentionally creates a issue so that he gets hauled off to jail. Then he can whine and cry about human rights violations.
Other words he is trouble with a capital T and Medvedev handled him correctly!
The ending of the story is that Roman Dobrokhotov never would calm down and ended up taking a ride to the police station. So that he would have time to think about his plans for telling the world how his human rights have been violated! As par for the course he got out of jail and cried about his rights and violations…
I have watched for two years in Moscow and this man is a hate monger. He spoke downtown Moscow once and after listening to his mouth for 30 seconds you knew that he was a capital T!
I have been watching closely and have noticed that Medvedev has been very quiet since the G-8, G-20 and American excursion. I sense a lot of thinking on his part going on. These quiet times are always conjunctive with spurts of Putin expressing himself for several weeks…
Putin is out and about right now. He has a large amount of projects as Prime Minister and he uses these moments to attract attention his way to divert from Medvedev…
Medvedev seems to have been stung by the escapades of America. I really think that Medvedev was “wined and dined” in America. I remember that Svet and I said at the same time. “I hope Medvedev comes back to Russia!” Of course it was a joke but a joke with an underlining issue…
For the fourth of July Medvedev made a statement to Obama: Medvedev said, “But relations meet the true interests of the people of our countries. This in itself makes hopeless and groundless the attempts to downplay the importance of our achievements.”
This is a a Medvedev that is thinking and knows that what happened in America over this spy scandal was an undermining of a future of the American / Russian relationship. I really think that Medvedev sees a weakness in putting all his chickens in one basket and that Obama is not a decent basket to bank on…
After the escapades the last few days by our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after mouthiness’s by Gates calling Russia “schizophrenic” plus other generalizations and Vice President Biden’s underlinings associated against Russia. Russia has an eye and earful of information to assess…
The new question that Russia must contemplate is not who is the boss of Russia as so many people like to quandary about around the world.
But the real question is who is the true boss of America? Then once you discover him or them, how do you deal with him or them?
Because it is not Obama and Medvedev has just learned the hard way about that…
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 14:55:12.France’s automobile producer Renault and AVTOVAZ are planning to develop a new low-cost car, Sergei Chemezov, Chairman of the Russian car maker’s Board of Directors, stated today. AVTOVAZ intends to use Renault’s engine and transmission for the car, while producing the rest unaided, Chemezov said. The new car is projected to be a station wagon seven-seater, and it is expected to be rolled out by 2009.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 14:05:42.The Bank of Russia is not planning to change its annual inflation forecast of 8.5 percent for 2008, radio Echo of Moscow reported today, citing the bank’s First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev. He pointed out that Russia could meet the target, adding that the figure itself was not as important, as the downward trend. Ulyukayev noted that the government was capable of curbing inflation, despite an inflation rate exceeding 3 percent in the first two months of the year.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 13:29:28.Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has applied once again to the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service for the permission to purchase an iron and steel producer Maxi Group, a source close to the company reported today. Meanwhile, NLMK’s press office did not comment on the matter.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 12:48:53.OGK-6’s Board of Directors has approved an issue of 22,468,978 shares as preparation for a merger with OGK-6 Holding, the power generation company stated today.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 12:39:28.AVTOVAZ and France’s car producer Renault have signed an agreement on strategic cooperation. The document was signed by the Russian state technology corporation, Russia’s leading automobile producer AVTOVAZ, Troika Dialog investment company, Rosoboronexport, and Renault. Chairman of AVTOVAZ Sergei Chemezov pointed out that the company’s restructuring was to be completed in July 2008. Once the process has been completed, Rosobornexport, Troika Dilaog, and Renault will be AVTOVAZ’s main shareholders.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Chelyabinsk 12:19:43.TGK-10 has announced today an issue of 633m additional shares with a par value of RUB 1.66 (approx. USD 0.069) each, the regional power generation company reported. The issue is expected to account for 57.73 percent of the company’s increased share capital, and the offering price has been set at RUB 111.80 (approx. USD 4.64). TGK-10 has invited investors to place bids for the issue, and Troika Dialog will act as the company’s broker. Proceeds from the issue are not projected to exceed RUB 46.6bn (approx. USD 1.932bn).
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 10:48:34.Russia has made a statement at the UN Security Council meeting that the deployment of an EU mission in Kosovo was illegal, Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin was cited by the Vesti TV channel as saying, following closed consultations at the UN. The mission’s deployment is illegal and does not comply with UN resolution 1244, which has been repeatedly declared valid by UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, Churkin noted.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 10:40:54.Russia and Hungary signed a cooperation agreement in Moscow on Thursday for building a gas pipeline to transit natural gas across Hungarian territory. The document was endorsed following a meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and Russian President Vladimir Putin by Finance Minister Janos Veres of Hungary and Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko of Russia. The accord provides for Hungary’s inclusion in the implementation of the South Stream project.
RBC, 29.02.2008, Moscow 09:27:45.Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered an address to the Russian people ahead of the presidential election, the leader’s press office reported. In his speech, the President encouraged Russians to exercise their right of vote on March 2. “Every vote matters, and the opinion of each one of you is important. I ask you come to the election on Sunday and vote for our future, Russia’s future,” he said.
“Responsibility is borne by those who started it. They should pluck up their courage and find a way to the hearts of the people whom they wounded. An agreement should be negotiated.” Putin…
This is what Putin expressed in response to a statement that Clinton babbled about while in Georgia… Clinton stated, “We continue to call for Russia to abide by the August 2008 ceasefire commitment signed by President Saakashvili and President Medvedev, including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions. ” You know this line of bull has been recited from the day one and it has become worn out. Can Clinton not come up with something better to say?
Putin is right! Georgia has to communicate with South Ossetia and Abkhazia to make things correct. It is not Russia’s job nor is it America’s job. Georgia has to stand alone and must admit first to the people they attacked, that Georgia was wrong for doing it. For until that happens South Ossetia and Abkhazia will never ever begin to trust Georgia…
My Grandma use to say, “To correct the problem, you must look inside yourself…” She is right!
Gotta love that line above about plucking up their courage… 🙂
I always have several days of thinking’s when I go to my doctors in Russia. I had some new experiences this last weekend because we had to find me a new cardiologist. My other cardiologist has retired and I was forced to start looking for another doctor to deal with this grouchy bear! (me)
Svet and I found a new clinic near one of the Gazprom banks that she works at downtown. She found me an endocrinologist and a cardiologist under the same roof so to speak.
This clinic is almost brand new and as modern as anything I have ever been to in my life. My old clinic (was just that, old!) was built during the Soviet era. I had adjusted to that clinic, so when I was entering the new one I was taken back by the modernness. I also wondered if this was going to be expensive just like health care in America… (Never fear it was extremely reasonable if not cheaper than the older unit we went to!)
I always am still amazed by the fact that literally all doctors in Russia are women. After being raised in a stereotype world that doctors are men, it still is hard for me to realize that when I go into a health care facility that everyone who is there to help me, are women. In Russia the doctors are Women. (The men do what men do best and run the maintenance crews for the buildings.)
I really respected my last cardiologist and she was very knowledgeable and a wonderful person. She had spent many years helping people and was way due to have a life of her own. I will miss being under her wing, so to speak…
Enter a new cardiologist: This young lady is still finishing up some long term studies at her university but is a certified cardiologist. She was very excited about having an American as a patient. It looks like this will be a good thing because at her university I can get testing done for free or very reasonable prices. I could tell by what she was saying that she had a brain and knew how to use it. That is very important to me… 🙂
Lets talk about a test that they do here every time I see the cardiologist. It is a heart sonogram (echocardiography), this is a test that I never had done in America yet here it is done regularly and gives the doctor a basis to see if damage has increased or decreased in the heart and vessels. The biggest advantage to echocardiography is that it is noninvasive (doesn’t involve breaking the skin or entering body cavities) and has no known risks or side effects. That is the part I like…
These tests over almost 4 years have actually shown no deterioration in my hearts physical condition. It seems that I am doing all the right things and my heart is not getting any worse for the wear. Now this is not to say that I can go hog wild and do what ever I want. It means that I have leveled out and am no longer having serious damage done to my heart as we speak. Damage I have to my heart because I was stupid and spent years ignoring pain in my chest and arms because I could not stop work long enough to check it out… (Did I say stupid?)
I also while at this new clinic went to see a new endocrinologist due to the fact that I did not want to have to travel all over Moscow just to see different doctors at different places. Once again she (yes a she), very well educated and knowledgeable.
Lets talk about a couple of the biggest contrasts between American doctors and Russian doctors.
I never in all my years in America had a doctor that would take more than 15 minutes to really listen to what you had to say about your problems. In fact most of the time an America doctor spends is looking at his watch because he has patients lined up down the hall way and has to see them all. In America I would wait two to three hours to see the doctor and spend 10 minutes with the doctor. You could not understand half of what he mumbled about and the nurse always explained everything to you later as you paid the bill…
In Russia, the doctor asks a million questions and checks a million spots on your body. My cardiologist and endocrinologist both spent an hour or more talking to me about what was happening, what was needed, what needs to be done and what better be done – to get better yet. The doctor also gives you copies of all your medical records so that you can always have up to date information encase of emergencies. If you have x-rays done then you keep the copies of those x-rays. These are very strange mannerisms to me.But mannerisms that I definitely prefer…
In America they just do not like you looking at your own doctors records and even if you peek at them, there is no way possible that you would understand the mumble jumble that is written all over the pages. I was in the hospital in America with a heart attack and I happened to grab the folder at the end of the bed to see what everyone is saying about my condition. You would have thought that I committed a crime and got scolded by no less than 10 people from nurses up through the doctors… 🙁 (I thought that they were my records?)
As I have said before the doctors in Russia really do care about you and believe me it does not have anything to do with money because in Russia, a Russian doctor does not make very much money…
When I first came to Russia I was confused because of the term village house and dacha. I used them interchangeably and realized later that they are not the same…
Svetochka and I have a village house we go to and I prefer the village over what Russian’s refer to as a dacha. Some people have very fancy dachas and others just have a little shed to keep tools in, that they work on their gardens with.
What is a dacha?
The best I understand is that dachas are get away places for people who live in the big cites. It allows them to get recharged by spending time in the countryside. Dacha is Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the suburbs of big Soviet and big post-Soviet cities. A village is where people live year around and is self sustaining…
I do know, that people in Russia have changed how they look at dachas and many now like to live year around in what use to be considered just a summertime thing…
I talk considerably about our village that we go to and it is not a dacha because it is located hundreds of kilometers away from large cites. A dacha is usually located around 25 to 50 km away from the city.
Either way you go, a village or a dacha, to have a place to get away from a city of 15,000,000+ people is a good idea. 🙂
Originally posted 2008-05-06 07:52:00. Hello,
I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & realized that we are at 500 posts for Windows To Russia!
I asked myself was it worth it?
My wife and I have put a lot of time into this blog & all blogs attached to it. Windows To Russia’s was born on 05/25/2007. Before that was several posts from a blog that had a lack of direction……
So Windows To Russia is about a year old. During that year we have upset a few people & a few people have upset us. We have had well thought out comments & comments that we could not print. In that year we have made some fantastic friends…..
These are blogs and blog owners that we communicate with on a regular bases. These are blogs that we have watched grow and helped to grow just like they have helped us. These are people that we are going to try our best to travel & see someday!
As far as content for Windows To Russia it has stayed centered on Russia, we refuse to wander too far from the Russian theme. Even if America seems to be the bad guy!
I myself have been accused many times of being against America. That is the furthest from the truth.
You see I came to Russia with preconceived notions, ideas that Russia is something that is evil. I was convinced by American media that Russians live in a totally depressed society.
I found a World that is equal if not superior to the one in the USA that I left. In my life I have stepped foot in Canada, Mexico, America, Germany, Ukraine, Vietnam, Moldova, Georgia & Russia. I have always been surprised at how wonderful the world really is, at how alike people are all over the world & how governments seem to be the root of the problems not the people. People all over the world will take the shirt off their back & give it to you if you need it. People all over the world will give you their last slice of bread if you need it. People in other parts of the world seem to have stronger moral convictions than what I saw in America.
So what you sense from me is an American that has realized that much of what he was taught & thought, was incorrect about the world.
Was it worth it? Yes!
Thank You for reading “Windows To Russia” & all her satellite blogs.
It seems that Russia will buy a Mistral class amphibious assault ship from France with the complete set of navigational equipment and technical documentation. Then Russia will equip the ship with its own weaponry and helicopters a Moscow news source stated today.
This is a subject that Windows to Russia has been following from the beginning and it looks as though by the end of this year is when the deal will be finalized. It seems from what is being said on the Russian news sources that Russia will purchase one ship then build two more Mistral class amphibious assault ships with the help of the French naval shipbuilder DCNS within shipyards of Russia. France has confirmed the desire to sell said ship and Russia has said today that the details are almost worked out.
Now that balance of technology seems to make sense and should not upset the Western worlds sense of balance. The only issue that I see going on in Russia as of today with this purchase is about the helicopters. It seems that there is talks of Russia also wanting to purchasing 100 Ka-class helicopters, including some 70 Ka-27Ms, to equip the Mistral ships. They say that they have to raise the decks of the ship to use Russian helicopters…
Russia has also said that since they will be using this ship in the North area that they will have to reinforce the hull to with stand ice as it makes its way through the Northern Latitudes. Russia also said that the Mistral Class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 helicopters, four landing barges, up to 70 armored vehicles including 13 battle tanks, and 450 personnel.
Hummm using it up North! Do you think they will go after Santa Claus? 🙂
So we will keep you updated as we discover more information about this interesting transaction…
I remember clearly Russia talking and explaining about no sanctions that affect the Iranian people and make life terrible for them. In fact I remember Russia being explicit about those stipulations. I remember Russian news saying that the people of Iran do not deserve to have sanctions that impose upon their rights as humans.
My understanding is that Iranians have it bad enough in the human rights department. So why do we as human right supporters make their life even more miserable?
Now remember this is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak and only one issue. As the sanctions become more pronounced. Then expanded further against what Russia voted for at the UN meeting, then the people of Iran will suffer more and more…
“Since last week, after the passing of the unilateral law by America and the sanctions against Iran, airports in England, Germany, the UAE have refused to give fuel to Iranian passenger planes.”Iranian Airlines, said. This was according to Russian TV…
Well Russia, this does not equate into sanctions that leave the Iranian people alone. Sanctions that only target the nuclear program. Sanctions that make it hard for the nuclear program to continue to develop. This for your information is targeting the people of Iran and curtailing the freedom of movement of said people…
Passenger jets are not full of nuclear product but they carry passengers as the name implies. What they do carry as excess cargo can be regulated and should be regulated. But to deny an Iranian passenger jet fuel because of a set of sanctions that were suppose to not target the Iranian people is asinine…
Then to top it all off, the world economy is in such bad shape that no one especially Europe and America can not afford to deny sales of any type. This seems like the West shoots their own foot in the process by these sanctions. Now Russia has stuck their foot in mouth, so to say…
Is this what you voted for Russia? Is this what you thought you were getting in the deal Medvedev? Did you mess up on this one Russia?
Windows to Russia wishes everyone in America a Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone has a safe and fun fourth. The video is a Patriotic movie trailer shown in theaters prior to the 4th of July in 1940. We found the video interesting…
Happy Safe Fourth To All our Readers. By the way, if you need something to read. Try The Declaration Of Independence…
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpation’s, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such….
…. is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation’s, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of….
…large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution’s, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Independence Hall before photography
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
Declaration of Independence
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpation’s, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
— And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton”
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