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Warm Russian, Indian relations outlive Cold War
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excerpt- ...Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s warm reception in India, including wrapping up a
stealth fighter jets deal potentially worth $35 billion, dispels Russian fears its former Cold
War ally has turned to the West.
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Russian President Medvedev to visit Israel in mid-January
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Luarsab II, King of Eastern Georgia, martyred by Persians in 1622 In 1783, Russia and the eastern Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartli-Kakheti received protection by Russia. Despite Russia's commitment to defend Georgia,
it rendered no assistance when the Turks and Persians invaded in 1785 and again in 1795
completely devastated Tbilisi and massacred its inhabitants.
This period culminated in the 1801 Russian violation of Treaty of Georgievsk and annexation of entire Georgian lands, followed the deposing of the Bagrationi dynasty and suppression of the Georgian church
That's Why It's a good idea to keep an eye out ....
DEBKA.com
....................... Suddenly, Russia Accepts US View on Iran's Drive for an N- Bomb ............................................................................................................ .........................................................
...China's growing importance in the region led the Kremlin to follow suit in November: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a deal that promise to deliver 68bcm a year to China through two new pipelines starting in Siberia - providing China with the other half of the gas it needs. ...
read more here- ...creating a system of incentives could unleash "unparalleled"
Russian potential in renewables. The Moscow Times
.................................. $165M Plan for Renewable Energy .................................................... 10 December 2010 By Roland Oliphant The World Bank announced on Thursday the start of a multimillion-dollar greenfield program of consulting and
investment in Russian renewable energy that should unleash a
"tsunami" of additional projects and funding.
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November 10, 2010 Rash of Attacks on Russian Reporters
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Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8&feature=player_embedded#! |
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Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea
AZERBAIJAN extraction of oil profit will increase 35 times
Located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea at the end of this year, "the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli" (ACG) oil fields in the blocks production forecasted to grow at 17.7. According to the State Oil Company, if the production volume of 2.37 million in 1998, ACG. edirdisə tons, more than 2010 of these indicators in accordance with 42 million at the end of the year. tons is expected. As a result, the total ACG oil production during the last 13 years will grow at 17.7. As for oil profit, during the last 11 years is expected to increase its volume of 35 times. Thus, if the volume of oil in 2000, 0.83 million profit. edirdisə tons, 29 million of the current year to the end of this indicator. tons is expected to be completed. In comparison with the previous year to the end of 2010, ACG oil production 4.5%, 6.6% of the profit of oil is expected to grow. It should be noted that the ACG fields development project, BP (operator - 34.1%), "Chevron" (10.2%), SOCAR (10%), "Inpex" (10%), "Statoil" (8.6% ), "ExxonMobil" (8%), TPAO (6.8%), "Devon" (5.6%), "Itochu" (3.9%) and "Hess" (2.7%) participate in companies . BAKU. 07.07.2010. APA. ...............................
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Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station
50% of GRES-2 shares are owned by Inter RAO UES, (Russian Energy Co. )
and 50% by Kazakhstan's government.
Ekibastuz city
tallest in the world power plant chimney (425 meters or 1392 feet)
About 3/4 of the energy produced by GRES-2 is exported to Russia
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coal-powered plants (70.3 % of the total),
gas-fuel oil-powered plants (17%),
Russia grants Kazakhstan $700 million energy loan .................................................................................. Monday, July 5, 2010 ASTANA - RIA Novosti ...On Monday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev
also signed an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev
................................................................................. Born 6 July 1940 (1940-07-06) (age 69) Chemolgan, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Political party Nur-Otan (1999–present) Other political affiliations Communist Party (before 1991) Spouse(s) Sara Nazarbayeva Religion Islam (Sufism) Nazarbayev himself has been called one of the "ultimate oligarchs"
of the post-Soviet central Asia states.[22] He is believed to have transferred at least $1 billion worth of oil revenues to his private bank accounts in other countries and his family controls many other key enterprises in Kazakhstan.[22] A recent book by his former son-in-law Rahat Aliev titled "Godfather-in-law"
has shed a light into many corrupt and criminal activities by Nursultan Nazarbayev. Everything the book contained was, in principle, known before, but have never before been summarised in such a coherent manner. For example, it became publicly known that Nazarbaev has three wives: Sara Nazarbayeva, the official one, Gulnara Rakisheva, a second one, and Assel Issabayeva, a third one (1999 Miss Astana).[26] wikipedia |
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Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station
50% of GRES-2 shares are owned by Inter RAO UES, (Russian Energy Co. )
and 50% by Kazakhstan's government.
Ekibastuz city
tallest in the world power plant chimney (425 meters or 1392 feet)
About 3/4 of the energy produced by GRES-2 is exported to Russia
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gas-fuel oil-powered plants (17%),
Russia grants Kazakhstan $700 million energy loan .................................................................................. Monday, July 5, 2010 ASTANA - RIA Novosti ...On Monday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev
also signed an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev
................................................................................. Born 6 July 1940 (1940-07-06) (age 69) Chemolgan, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Political party Nur-Otan (1999–present) Other political affiliations Communist Party (before 1991) Spouse(s) Sara Nazarbayeva Religion Islam (Sufism) Nazarbayev himself has been called one of the "ultimate oligarchs"
of the post-Soviet central Asia states.[22] He is believed to have transferred at least $1 billion worth of oil revenues to his private bank accounts in other countries and his family controls many other key enterprises in Kazakhstan.[22] A recent book by his former son-in-law Rahat Aliev titled "Godfather-in-law"
has shed a light into many corrupt and criminal activities by Nursultan Nazarbayev. Everything the book contained was, in principle, known before, but have never before been summarised in such a coherent manner. For example, it became publicly known that Nazarbaev has three wives: Sara Nazarbayeva, the official one, Gulnara Rakisheva, a second one, and Assel Issabayeva, a third one (1999 Miss Astana).[26] wikipedia |
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Clinton: NATO door open for UkraineFri Jul 2, 1:41PM PT - Reuters 1:30 | 2803 views U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Ukraine that the door to NATO remains open. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. VIDEO
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New Reserve Currency Discussion... ( again )
With a number of countries ? "Three to five years ago, any discussion of this seemed like a fantasy that may never come true," he said. "Now we're discussing it in
absolute seriousness with a number of countries..
JUNE 18, 2010, 8:42 A.M. ET Medvedev Discusses New Reserve Currency ................................................................................. ..............................
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But didn't they assist Iran with the Bomb?
Don't they Freeze Europe every Winter? Wait, I forgot... in the Corp. Alt. World the Main Consideration is the Art of the Deal. Medvedev aims to build Russia's 'Silicon Valley'
...................................................................................... ............................................................................................... Wednesday, June 16, 2010 YURIY HUMBER / LUCIAN KIM MOSCOW - Bloomberg Russian President Dmitry Medvedev takes his plea for foreign investment and technology directly to Microsoft, Citigroup and Nokia as he hosts business leaders this week in his native St. Petersburg. Article here- .................
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Forgotten Work By Master Georgian Composer Reincarnated By U.S. Chorale
......................................................................................................... WATCH & LISTEN: The Capitol Hill Chorale performs an excerpt of Zakaria Paliashvili's lost "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom." Video courtesy of Paul Selker and the Capitol Hill Chorale. VIDEO
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Turkey on the Move ........................................ ....................................................... ...During Medvedev's visit, the countries signed 17 agreements,
which Medvedev estimated to have a combined value of US $25 billion. ...Turkey will allow Russia to build - and own - a $20 billion nuclear power plant. From- Russia opens a new pipeline of diplomacy ........................................................................ By M K Bhadrakumar
May 15, 2010 Russian floating nuclear power station
The stations are to be mass-built at shipbuilding facilities and then towed to the destination point in coastal waters near a city, a town or an industrial enterprise.
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Beautiful... Gerlachovsky stít (2655 m), highest peak in Slovakia So... where is President Dmitry Medvedev when you need him?
Are the Mr's Medvedev and Putin playing good cop bad cop?
Russian president slams 'totalitarian' USSR
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May 7 08:10 AM US/Eastern President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that suppressed human rights, in the most damning assessment of the USSR by a Russian leader in recent years.
Article- OMG ( We have a large Community here from- Russia/ Ukraine/ Slovakia )
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Russia parliament votes to strengthen KGB successor
................................................................................. Yesterday at 16:55 Reuters MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) -
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Vlad... A time to Forgive... please... Let the guy out.
YUKOS, once Russia's largest oil producer, was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and declared bankrupt after Russia raised huge back-tax demands that it was unable to settle.
Khodorkovsky is now serving an eight-year prison term in Siberia on charges of tax
evasion.
Russian state-controlled Rosneft became the country's largest oil producer and refiner following a string of state-forced auctions of YUKOS assets.
Former YUKOS owners say its bankruptcy was Kremlin revenge on Khodorkovsky for his political ambitions and criticism of the government.
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Russia
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............................................ Washington Post- Russia Now ..................................................... Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, built by the Stroganovs
click on thumnail photo for beautiful detail of church
Author Smolov.ilya
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Verkhovna Rada, the Parliament of Ukraine
There should be a FUND to assist... so that a Country has no need to sell it's soul so to speak.
The New York Times
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Ukraine Is Not Yet 'Lost'
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By SACHA TESSIER-STALL and KATERYNA ZAREMBOPublished: May 20, 2010...True, it's a bad deal. In exchange for rebates on natural gas until 2019, President
Yanukovich has allowed Moscow to station its Black Sea Fleet in the port of Sevastopol
until 2042.
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P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble. Performens in Donetsk. April 30. 2006
U.S.-Ukraine Business Council
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Russia ................. ...He said the uranium will be used for the nuclear power plant Russia is building in Turkey
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/article/russia-invests-n8bn-in-uranium-sector/ Kodiak Exploration ................................... Gold Division Otish Basin Uranium Properties
BlackRock
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As of March 31, 2010, BlackRock’s assets under management total US $ 3.36 trillion
across equity, fixed income, cash management, alternative investment,
real estate and advisory strategies.
Look who else likes Kodiak Exploration.....
Schedule of Investments December 31, 2009 (Unaudited) BlackRock Global Opportunities Portfolio
(Percentages shown are based on Net Assets) shares value Kodiak Exploration Ltd.(a) 1,000,000 487,642 .........................
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Georgian President Says Russia’s Putin Wanted to “Hang Me by the Balls” – Video
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U.S. Makes Concessions to Russia for Iran Sanctions
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By PETER BAKER and DAVID E. SANGERPublished: May 21, 2010..................
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May 9, 2010 In Russia ................................................ A detachment of Welsh Guards from Britain ...
Armed U.S. troops from the 170th Infantry Brigade ...
...France paraded to the sound of a huge military band
Russia offers olive branch as NATO joins parade ............................................................................................................... (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev struck a conciliatory note at Russia's Victory Day military parade on Sunday, urging world powers to unite for peace and defending his decision to invite NATO troops to march on Red Square.
...Foreign leaders including President Hu Jintao of China and German Chancellor Angela Merkel watched as over 11,000 troops from World War Two victors Russia, the United States, Britain and France paraded to the sound of a huge military band.
Victory in Europe Day on May 8, Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9. Nazi Germany's 1945 surrender came into force at 11.01 Berlin time, when it was already May 9 in Moscow.
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Russia Frees Pirates It Seized Days Ago
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Published: May 7, 2010 MOSCOW – Two days after Russian marines captured 10 Somali pirates in a much-ballyhooed high-seas shootout, freeing Russian crew members who had huddled for 20 hours in the dank safety of the engine room, Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday announced an anticlimactic ending to the saga. ...........................................
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Is the World Getting Smaller?
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Russia Wants Right to Prosecute U.S. Parents30 April 2010
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Police Were on Strike
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Rioters rampage through market in Bishkek, Bakiyev (former Leader ) turns up in Minsk
(Belarus offered him Asylum)
RussiaToday - April 20, 2010 - The ousted leader of Kyrgyzstan is Belarus - according to
that country's President who has offered him political asylum. And back in the Kyrgyz
capital there has been more violence. Hundreds of rioters rampaged through Bishkek's
massive Central Asian market, causing panic among traders.
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Fresh riots in Kyrgyzstan, armoured vehicles enter capital
.................................................................................................................................... 20/04/2010 New riots in Kyrgyzstan .................................... ....................................
Evgeniya Chaykovskaya
Kyrgyzstan's interim government has already inherited some of the problems
of an angry and unruly population, with further riots breaking out amid
continuing political instability.
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Interior view of the Turkish Parliament (TBMM) in Ankara OilPrice.com: Moscow Ascending: How Turkey's New
Axis With Russia Affects US Interests
2010-04-17
...Russia's recent major thrusts - for a variety of historical, economic, and security reasons - have been to dominate the Caucasus and Northern Tier, the Greater Black Sea Basin, and Central Asia. This has been evidenced particularly by Russia's successful initiatives to build strategic relations with Turkey and Iran.
The profound depth of this transformation cannot be under-estimated, and, along with the stability of the European Union itself (which is inextricably bound to Russia for its energy), vitally affects the fate of South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean states.
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Lake in Goldap
POLAND'S First Lady
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Maria Kaczynska: 'Misfortunes Allow Us To Know What Fortune Is'
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Paul Goble
Vienna, April 15 – Tomorrow, the Chechen authorities will celebrate the first anniversary of the end of the Russian "counter-terrorist operation" (KTO) there not because Chechnya
has become less violent during the intervening months - it hasn’t - but rather because the
end of the KTO formalized Moscow’s deference to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
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In 2006 Human Rights Watch reported that pro-Moscow Chechen forces under the command, in effect, of President Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as federal police personnel, used torture to get information about separatist forces. "If you are detained in Chechnya, you face a real and immediate risk of torture. And there is little chance that your torturer will be held accountable," said Holly Cartner, Director Europe and Central Asia division of HRW.[28]
Human rights groups criticized the conduct of the 2005 parliamentary elections as unfairly influenced by the central Russian government and military.[29]
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The Oliver Hazard Perry class of frigates were designed by the U.S. Navy in the 1970s as general-purpose escort vessels
U.S. warship arrives in Georgia for joint training
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A U.S. frigate has arrived in Georgia's territorial waters to take part in joint Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) exercises with the Georgian Coast Guard, a Georgian official said on Wednesday. USS John L. Hall, an Oliver Perry class guided missile frigate, docked on Wednesday in the port of Poti, some 50 km (31 miles) from the border with the former Georgian republic
of Abkhazia.
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12/04/2010 | Moscow News №13 2010 Historic Moscow church could be saved Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov .................................................. has banned a proposed office complex next to the historic Church of the Resurrection in
Kadashi, according to chief architect Alexander Kuzmin.
Kuzmin told a meeting of the Public Chamber of Russia that the mayor had "forbidden" developers to work on the project, which had prompted a public outcry amid fears that the large-scale "Five Capitals" commercial and residential scheme would obstruct views of the church near Bolshaya Ordynka, RIA Novosti reported. Article continues here- Historic Church of the Resurrection
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Obama: sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council may be taken in the spring
08/04/2010 19:17
PRAGUE, April 8th - RIA Novosti. Discussion of new sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council continues for several weeks and possibly the United States succeed in tough penalties already this spring, said Thursday U.S. President Barack Obama. "Sanctions against Iran has already moved past few weeks, but in fact they are moving for several months. We will see new negotiations at the UN next week in New York, and I believe we can achieve strong strong sanctions against Iran this spring "- Obama said at a press conference. The American president said that the issue discuss a treaty on strategic offensive armaments "helped the US-Russian dialogue on Iran's nuclear program." "I think there are two ways by which negotiations on START contributed to the US-Russian discussions on Iran. The first - is that President Medvedev and I have been able to establish credibility, and our team can work together" - Obama said. According to the U.S. president, established the format of bilateral dialogue has enabled countries to work together on Iran to give Tehran a chance to understand "the need to distance itself from nuclear weapons." 0 - From- ..................
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This is Regional Climate Change
There is now an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan
to save and replenish the North Aral Sea.
"We will defeat the drought, too!" - Joseph Stalin in his marshal's uniform over a shelterbelt map
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(It was the size of Ireland )
Once among the four largest lakes of the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three lakes[2] – the North Aral Sea and the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea. By 2009, the south-eastern lake had disappeared and the south-western lake retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea.[3] The maximum depth of the North Aral Sea is 42 metres (138 ft) (as of 2008).[1]
The region's once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, bringing unemployment and economic hardship. The Aral Sea region is also heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.[4]
There is now an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea. As part of this effort, a dam project was completed in 2005; in 2008, the water level in this lake had risen by 12 metres (39 ft) from its lowest level in 2003.[1] Salinity has dropped, and fish are again found in sufficient numbers for some fishing to be viable. However, the outlook for the remnants of the South Aral Sea remains bleak.
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Most parts of what was previously the fourth largest lake in the world is now a desert covered with salt and scrub flats. Aral Sea shrank by 70 per cent after USSR planners in the 1960s drained off the lake for cotton irrigation in Uzbekistan. In 1990, the sea was split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Ban urges Central Asia to tackle shrinking Aral Sea
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April 5th, 2010 by Andrew Robertts
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Quiet Chernobyl: The Aral Sea
Cotton - Environmental Disaster & Lethal Pesticides
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What The Aral Used to look like?
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Don't Mess with Ukraine
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Goodbye to Winter in Ukraine...
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I have a solution let China buy some Russian territory north of Mongolia or well give Mongolia to China they need all the land they can use, I think China should exercise free immigration policy to let some people out of the country I would prefer Chinese immigrates over Mexicans illegal’s
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New Year Message from The Russian President
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Russia in 2009
Edward Lozansky
> For Russia, 2009 was a pretty difficult year on the domestic front. It was saturated with severe economic and financial crises as well as horrible terrorist attacks and several man-made catastrophes. Nevertheless, the Russians not only proved once again that they can withstand disaster with dignity, but even in these most difficult times they achieved some impressive results in economic and social areas. The economy started to grow and the performance of the stock market was one of the world’s best. The shops are full of goods and customers, travel abroad is on the rise, and cultural life is bustling at least in the large cities. However, three huge and potentially devastating problems remain unresolved and actually are getting worse: poor demography, monstrous corruption, and severe alcoholism. If one compares the number of people per square kilometer in of Russia (8), the United States (50) and China (220), the picture is gloomy. Moreover, this ratio keeps changing, and unfortunately not in Russia’s favor. Will the country in the years ahead have enough manpower to implement Medvedev’s dreams of innovations and modernization, to serve in its army, or at least to hold on to its huge landmass? scroll down for VIDEO ..................
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An Eastern European Dish, Stuffed Cabbage Leaves
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"Golubtsy"
The ultimate Russian comfort food
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and long, comforting meals in a warm kitchen.
But while they are considered among the most Russian of foods, their origins are foreign,
as is the origin of their name. Golubtsy are cousins to dolma, grape leaves stuffed with
meat that are popular in the Caucasus and Greece. As they headed up north to Russia,
cabbage supplanted grape leaves, which did not grow well in the local climate, and beef r
eplaced the lamb used in the south.
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.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olchon1.jpg byAndrzej Barabasz (Chepry) Lake Baikal
................... "the rich lake" is the world's second most voluminous lake, after the Caspian Sea. It is the most
voluminous freshwater lake in the world with an average depth of 744.4 m (2,442 ft) and
contains a total of roughly 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water.[4][5]
Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia
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January, 14 2010 Vladimir Kozlov, The Moscow News Tourism chiefs to tout Russia's regions ............................................................ Russia hopes to attract foreign tourists to such far-flung places as Lake Baikal, Altai and
Karelia as an alternative to the standard tourist spots of Moscow, St. Petersburg and the
Golden Ring - and is planning a network of tourism information centres abroad to woo
visitors. But it is not yet clear when the first centres could be opened, while visa issues,
insufficient transport infrastructure and high prices hold back Russia's domestic tourism
industry.
Altai Mountains
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katun.jpg by Ondrej Zvacek
Katun River in the Altai Mountains
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