PUTIN, 2005: “Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.” RUSSIAN JOKE, 2015: Heard the one about Vladimir Putin? The oil price and the ruble’s value against the do[...]
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November 23rd, 2014 - 4:00 am § in Russia
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Russia Recovers From Atheism
Life Without God: Non-Believers in Post-Soviet Russia Russia’s main cathedral was destroyed in Soviet times © RIA Novosti 21:00 26/06/2012 By Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti Tags: WWII, Soviet Union, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Russia “It’s plain scary to be an atheist now. I know cases w[...]
Hypocrisy of Capitalism
Republic’s Official: Western Businessmen Ready to Invest in Crimean Energy, Industry Foreign investors are showing increased interest in a number of Crimean projects, from the automotive industry to energy, Deputy Minister of Crimean Affairs Andrei Sokolov told RIA Novosti in an interview Frid[...]
Sunday Revelations: The Russian Worm Turns Full Circle
Russians launch dedicated center to fight ‘atheist extremism’[...]
Russia Warns Of “Unfortunate Consequences” Over Ethnic Tension In Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania fear Moscow will follow the Crimean model and exploit the countries’ Russian-speaking minority. Nato ready to respond.[...]
Russia: What to do when your heroes are illegal?
Moscow stifles dissent as soldiers return in coffins By Thomas Grove and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW – Russian soldiers are dying in a war in which they officially have no involvement. That’s a problem in Russia. Full Article[...]
What Will Ptin do as Ukraine claims key town near Donetsk? The Ukrainian army says it has seized the town of Avdiivka, near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, amid intense fighting in the area around the downed MH17 flight.[...] Anyone Want to Bet No One gets Their Share of $50,000,000,000?
Shareholders of Yukos Oil Win $50 Billion Lawsuit Against Putin’s Russia Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev, right, stand behind a glass wall at a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, was Russia’s richest man [...]
July 19th, 2014 - 4:47 am § in Russia
Putin Calls For Objectivity, As Missile Launcher Goes (back) to Russia
Malaysian Airliner Disaster in Ukraine Must Be Investigated Objectively – Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed his condolences to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte over the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine and said the tragedy needs to be investigated obje[...]