Monday, September 8, 2014

Anti-Russian Ukrainians fear complexity


Anti-Russian Ukrainians fear complexity


First up is the Orwellian warning by Chrystia Freeland, Canadian MP and long-time armchair anti-Russia agitator on behalf of Ukraine, against nuanced or neutral language in describing the rebellion in Donetsk and Luhansk or particularly Russia’s involvement ( Sept. 5, New York Times). She praises th ...


Book review: Why nations fail


I read a interesting book "Why nations fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. This book should be on the reading list of Putin, but I doubt that he will use it for the benefit of his country. More likely he will use it to undermine other countries. The book notice that since end of modern age t ...


Sick mum left baby to starve to death while she went out partying for 2 weeks


19 year old Russian woman Alyona Ipatova (pictred left) who left her five-month-old baby to starve to death while she went out partying for two weeks has been sentenced to a minimum of 10 years' hard labour. Alyona, dubbed 'Monster mum' by Russian media admitted in court to leaving her baby alone in ...


L'OCCIDENTE PSICHIATRICO DI EZIO MAURO


Leggo ieri, sul sito di Repubblica, un editoriale di Ezio Mauro che riesce a riassumere due secoli di paranoia in quattro luoghi comuni. Mauro ci spiega che esiste l’Occidente e che l’Occidente ha un “nemico ereditario”, l’Oriente. Egli adopera in modo intercambiabile il termine “Occidente” e il pro ...


A russia woman left baby to starve to death


A young russia woman Alyona Ipatova (pictred left) who left her five-month-old baby to starve to death while she went out partying for two weeks has been sentenced to a minimum of 10 years' hard labour. Alyona, dubbed 'Monster mum' by Russian media admitted in court to leaving her baby alone in her ...


Western spy 'abducted by Russia' from Nato country Estonia faces 20 years in jail with Moscow claiming he was in possession of a gun, ammunition and 'recording equipment'


A Western intelligence agent 'abducted by Russia' from NATO country Estonia faces up to 20 years in jail, it was revealed last night. Tallinn has accused Moscow of an audacious stunt in kidnapping Eston Kohver from inside the European Union in a potential ...


Europe chooses a side and will sanction Russia just months before winter


For a long time, Europe has been a continent that has stood in the shadow of two great powers, and after the fall of the former Soviet Union, the newly formed European Union began to rely heavily upon Russian energy and trade exports just as it relied upon ...


Russia May Still Have An Automated Nuclear Launch System Aimed Across The Northern Hemisphere


Anxiety over a nuclear exchange between super powers seems out of place in a post-Cold War world where conflicts are usually fought within states, rather than between them. But despite the changing nature of the times, nuclear weapons continue to play a ...


Russia exposes Obama's empty security promises to Estonia


Joining the now-notorious “red line” empty threat issued against Assad of Syria is a much more dangerous example of Barack Obama’s fatuous bluster, his assurance of NATO backing of the Baltic States last Wednesday in Tallinn, Estonia: "The defense of ...



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