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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
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[...]
November 3rd, 2014 - 11:02 pm § in Misc.
Russia’s Male Shortage
An article in Newsweek says Russia has 10.5 million more women than men: “At birth there is an equal number of girls and boys; by age 30, men begin to disappear …. Fewer than a half of them survive until 65, … so millions of babushkas live alone for the rest of their life.” http://w[...]
SUNDAY REVELATION: Belief that God is essential to morality in INVERSELY proportional to national wealth.
The Pew Research Center published a survey. The results of the survey of people in 40 countries shows that belief that God is essential to morality in INVERSELY proportional to national wealth. [...]