Russia to beef up military presence in Crimea
MOSCOW, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the deployment of troops in the Crimean direction has become a priority of the Southern military district. "Military-political situation at the southwestern strategic ...
Russia to send troops to Crimea as NATO holds exercises in Ukraine
MOSCOW, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Russia threatened to send more troops to its newly-annexed territory of Crimea on Tuesday, after NATO began exercises in western Ukraine while Kiev's forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists in the east. Defence Minister ...
HBO to Air HUNTED: THE WAR AGAINST GAYS IN RUSSIA, 10/6
In modern-day Russia, where it is estimated that just 1% of the LGBT population lives completely openly, a recent anti-gay amendment to a "propaganda" law has triggered a rising number of assaults on gay men and women by vigilantes who, more often than not ...
Oligarch buys Russia's most popular social media
MOSCOW (AP) — A media company owned by Kremlin-friendly oligarch Alisher Usmanov has splashed out $1.5 billion to gain full control of Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte, bringing an end to a months-long dispute that saw the original ...
Ukraine Crisis Seen Lasting for Years in Threat to Russia
The conflict in Ukraine will take years to resolve, rattling Russia’s investment climate and threatening to push its economy into recession at the current level of sanctions, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said. “It’s no quick task to resolve ...
Russia to deploy reinforcements to Crimea area: minister
MOSCOW: Russia's defence minister called on Tuesday for the deployment of reinforcements to the Crimea and southern Russia, citing the worsening crisis in Ukraine and buildup of foreign forces nearby. Sergei Shoigu said it was a "priority" to deploy a ...
Russia needs government investment to avoid recession, says former finance minister
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia risks slipping into recession because the government is not investing enough in the economy to weather Western sanctions, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday, criticizing the strategy so far. A strong advocate of ...
Press at the Ig: Glimpses of the Russian TV coverage
Every year, at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, Sanders Theatre is jammed not only with Ig Nobel winners, Nobel winners, opera singers, and 1100 audience members, but also with journalists who come from afar to document the doings. Channel One Russia is among the many international TV networks sending c ...
Teddy Roosevelt: The First Cinematic President
Twentieth Century Fox As with any Ken Burns documentary, PBS’s The Roosevelts (having finished its second of seven two-hour episodes last night) features a trove of archival material including photographs, documents, newspaper headlines, excerpts of diaries and books reads by actors ranging from Mer ...
The South from Country to Colony
From: bernhard1848@gmail.com The South in 1865 voluntarily laid down its arms in deference to the Northern Constitution and its laws, though it experienced what the wife of Gen. Bryan Grimes called a "reign of terror." She reported that "there was a report that they would hang all officers above the ...
В Марий Эл резко выросла смертность от отравлений алкоголем
По данным социально-гигиенического мониторинга Управления Роспотребнадзора по РМЭ, за восемь месяцев текущего года зарегистрировано 203 случая отравлений алкоголем и его суррогатами, в том числе 157 со смертельным исходом. В прошлом году было зарегистрировано 159 отравлений, 108 со смертельным исход ...
ΣΚΟΤΩΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΜΕΤΑΞΥ ΤΟΥΣ ΟΙ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΟΙ ΕΞΩ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΚΟΙΝΟΒΟΥΛΙΟ ΤΟΥΣ.
Ξέσπασαν άγριες συγκρούσεις κοντά στο κτίριο ‘Verkhovna Rada” μεταξύ της αστυνομίας και των ακτιβιστών εθνικιστών της οργάνωσης ”Pravy sektor”.Τραγελαφικό γεγονός για την δημοκρατία να σκοτώνονται έξω από το κοινοβούλιο τους. Οι συγκεκριμένοι εθνικιστές αφού έριξαν έναν βουλευτή μέσα στα σκουπίδια,τ ...
Russia Approves $1.55 Billion Loan To Belarus
The Russian government has approved a draft agreement on allocating a state loan of $1.55 billion to Belarus in 2014.
Russian Girl Teaches Scumbag Litterers a Lesson
A motorcyclist delivers instant justice to littering drivers in Russia. [ myvideos/via reddit]
ISIS Leaders, Sex Toys And A "Religion Of Peace"
What has one got to do with the other, you ask? Actually nothing, unless you're an unlucky goat in the desert surrounded by lonely Islamic radicals who just can't help themselves. So why the title? I was perusing the internet this morning and came across a couple of articles that caught my interest. ...
еще про оппозицию
РБК опубликовал текст за моей подписью, озаглавленный "Что ждет российскую оппозицию после войны на Украине". http://top.rbc.ru/politics/16/09/2014/949325.shtml#xtor=AL-[internal_traffic]--[rbc.ru]-[favorites_body]-[item_2] Фотография в публикации - действительно моя (с сайта ЕУСПб), а текст не то ч ...
Pronostici Del 17/09/2014
Pronostico di Niccolò: Partita: Ath. Bilbao - Shakhtar (Ore 20.45) Segno: 1 Quota: 2.00 Commento: Quota in salita. Nella prima giornata del girone H di Champions League l'Atletico Bilbao affronterà lo Shakhtar Donesk mercoledì prossimo alle ore 20.45. Gli spagnoli dopo aver guadagnato ai danni del N ...
