Egypt buying $3.5 billion worth of combat platforms from Russia
MOSCOW — After a year of negotiations, Egypt and Russia have reached an agreement for a major weapons deal. Officials said Egypt has agreed to procure $3.5 billion worth of combat platforms and other weapons from Russia. The officials said the deal would ...
Micex Falls as Evtushenkov Arrest Affirmed: Russia Reality Check
Markets are reacting in real time to tension in Ukraine following Russia’s March incursion into Crimea and subsequent annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. The Micex Index fell 0.4 percent to 1,436.05 at the close in Moscow, giving a loss since Feb. 28 ...
Russia's Novak warns no scope for gas re-exports to Ukraine
BERLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak has told a German newspaper that European countries cannot re-export Russian gas to Ukraine due to contract reasons, and hinted those that do could face gas cuts. In the text of an ...
Outgoing NATO chief: Russia is partner-turned-adversary
The retiring secretary general of NATO says he is leaving behind a more efficient fighting organization that will have to deal with an increasingly aggressive Russia. The Russians are promoting conflict in neighboring states in what looks like an effort to ...
А вот Тимченко со своей собаченькой увидеться не может, самолетик не обслуживают, виллы отбирают.
Это же куда важнее, чем Россия, какие-то там русские... Да и вообще какие-то мифические национальные интересы. Это что вообще такое?! Ууу. Не, не слышали. Ужасть какая, еще думать о Росиюшке. Гадость какая, однако. Вцепился Путен в Укропию и говорит - люби меня, люби дорогая! Не бросай меня! Газку п ...
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
The Big Picture shares photos from the Asian Games. blogTO notes that Loblaws in Toronto will pioneer drive-through grocery sales. The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her issues with being an adjunct professor. The Dragon's Tales notes the ongoing disputes within the European Space Agency b ...
UPDATE: The state of the European economy
Recently, Europe’s economy has avoided appearing on many of our news screens what with other international affairs such as Russia/ Ukraine, Syria and Iraq in the headlines for probably my entire summer holidays. But that doesn't mean that the European economy is all hunky-dory and the recession is a ...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 24 September 2014
Source: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Country: Ukraine The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. In Kyiv, in a large demonstration, protesters threatened the ...
Three Rules for Media Interviews
By Daphne Gray-Grant My brother-in-law—an engineer—recently reminded me that I had taught him the three rules for media interviews. “They really work,” he said, with a big smile on his face. I was astonished. Not because the rules worked, but because I honestly hadn’t remembered teaching him. I star ...
Le prodezze di un premio Nobel per la pace.
Mille miliardi in bombe atomiche Disarmo totale: «Per i prossimi tre decenni gli Stati Uniti non muoveranno nemmeno un passo per quella lunga strada.» [Roberto Vacca] Redazione giovedì 25 settembre 2014 17:12 www.megachip.info Commenta di Roberto Vacca Gli Stati Uniti decidono di investire in nuove, ...
Грибаускайте — тетка с яйцами
Все как есть, и никаких "мирных планов" и прочей лапши: — In reality, these so-called peace negotiations in Minsk were done under the ultimatum of Putin. Western countries and the European Union gave into his conditions, meaning practically the partitioning of Ukraine. [...] — The Europeans and othe ...
Roy Jones returns tomorrow in Russia
By Przemek Garczarczyk Future Boxing Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. (58-8, 41 KOs) conducts an open training session in Krasnodar, Russia, where he’ll defend his WBU (German version) cruiserweight title tomorrow night against Hany Atiyo (14-2, 10 KOs).
Poroshenko says Ukraine crisis approaching end
Kiev (AFP) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he was confident that his peace deal with pro-Russian insurgents means the "most dangerous" part of the five-month conflict is over. "I have no doubt that my peace plan will work. I have no doubt that the biggest, most dangerous part ...
Appreciating Horses--Introduction to Equine Behaviour
Learn to see as the horse sees. Horses keep an eye on people, a keen and knowing eye. In Dr Gustafson's Equine Behaviour Class equestrians of all disciplines learn how to keep an eye on horses. In a socially rich online learning environment, students come to see the world as horses see the world, im ...
