I have watched the Dollar slide downhill slowly but steadily! This effect was not very apparent when I lived in the USA, but living outside of the USA, I see how the Dollar decline is conjunctively with all currencies……————————————————————–Dollar down 13.88 kopeks, euro up 16.91 kopeks – Central Bank 27/03/2008 13:48 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA […]
Seems that here in the last few weeks there are spy’s everywhere. Now Belarus has uncovered another spy ring. They must not be very good spy’s because they keep getting caught. Reminds me of: Spy Vs Spy……———————————————————–Belarus says uncovers U.S. spy networkTue Mar 25, 2008 2:17pm EDT MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus said on Tuesday it […]
I was drinking my morning cup of delicious Russian coffee & thinking about Chechnya. I was thinking about doing an article on the troubled area. It has seemed to me that the conflict has mellowed out a lot down that way. Just as I was getting ready to start the article I saw that Yuri […]
maker said. The company’s management expects that the synergy between the companies will result from lower expenses and higher operating efficiency. RBC, 25.03.2008, Moscow 17:21:03.LUKoil and Iraq have agreed to form a working group for the implementation of the Western Kurna-2 project, the Russian oil company’s press office reported today, referring to the talks held […]
Moscow has been having some warm days, today has hit over 12.4 degrees C. That is about 54.2 degrees F. These are record temperatures for this time of the year. The previous record for March 25 was 12.2 degrees (53.9 F.) which was registered in 1973. The meteorological bureau said temperatures could climb even higher […]
The second cup of morning coffee brought forth this really good article on Mother Russia. (The Country!) It gives a positive perspective about Russia and the one area I disagree with is matter of personal outlook on the Russian people! (I give my difference at the end of the article.) I understand this attraction to […]
How would you like to be this tall……———————————————————–[24.03.2008 17:02]Leonid Stadnik`s phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus, according to AP. But Stadnik, […]
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This is not a surprise to me, The story is sad but a real part of life in Russia! My wife & I have stood at train stations and overpasses, looking at the train tracks. As we watch the trains come & go, we see people crossing the tracks. I ask why do they all […]
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