The Game of the Name
Yet another subject where there is little or no agreement. Let me try and explain some of the many issues with personal names, and with other types of name, and then present my own approach to handling them. This is probably one of the most likely areas for trapping the unwary with insular attitudes ...
Dutch People Apologize To Russia And Putin
Dutch Intellectuals Apologize, In Writing, To The President of Russia. The following letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Here is the text of the apology (after translation) in full: Dear Mr. President Putin, Please accept our apol ...
Pepe Escobar: “De Minsk a Gales, a chave é a Alemanha”
Presidente da Ucrânia, Petro Poroshenko (E); Presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin (centro-alto D); o Presidente da Bielorússia, Alexander Lukashenko (3º a D de Putin); reunidos com a alta cúpula da União Europeia e o presidente do Cazaquistão em Minsk em 26/8/2014. (Alexei Druzhinin) [*] por Pepe Es ...
Colonization by Bankruptcy by Ellen Brown
If Argentina were in a high-stakes chess match, the country’s actions this week would be the equivalent of flipping over all the pieces on the board. – David Dayen, Fiscal Times, August 22, 2014 Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involunt ...
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completed 90% of journey, will enter Mars orbit in September
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), termed as Mangalyaan, launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on 5 November 2013 has completed 90% of its journey towards the Red Planet. ISRO announced that Mangalyaan is close to reach its orbit. Remaining 10% of its journey will be completed i ...
Don't mess with nuclear Russia, Putin says
LAKE SELIGER, Russia, Aug 29 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia's armed forces, backed by its nuclear arsenal, were ready to meet any aggression, declaring at a pro-Kremlin youth camp that foreign states should understand: "It's ...
Putin hopeful Russia won't lose right to host 2018 World Cup
LAKE SELIGER Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he hoped Russia would not lose the right to host the 2018 football World Cup following Western calls to stop the country staging the tournament. Asked whether there was any risk that ...
A dozen McDonald's outlets closed in Russia
McDonald's can't seem to catch a break in Russia these days. Russia's consumer watchdog agency is forcing the American fast-food chain to temporarily close eight more outlets across the country over accusations of sanitary violations, bringing the total ...
What about Ukraine and Russia's other conflict – over gas?
Although the military conflict in Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russia rebels is worsening, there's another battlefront in the conflict between Kiev and Moscow: the economic war over gas. And it could have a more profound impact on Europe than ...
Opinion: Fog lifts to show Russia at war
(CNN)-- The fog has been lifted. There is no serious doubt left that Russia is "now directly involved in the fighting" in Ukraine, as Geoffrey Pyatt, U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine has said on Twitter. "Russian supplied tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and ...
