The Boy Scouts are allowing local Boy Scout councils to decide if they want to keep bans on gay scouts and scoutmasters. Of course, they continue to ban atheists like me in their ranks, as is their right. The Girl Scouts on the other hand don't discriminate based on sexual...
Read Full Article>>> http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/russia-prepares-to-label-obama.html A stunning proposal from the Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, to President Putin that is circulating in the Kremlin today calls...
Read More: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/11/putin-and-merkel-tango-in-moscow.htmlLast week, the German Parliament passed a resolution that asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to needle Russian President Vladimir Putin about the resurgence of repressive, antidemocratic...
Read more: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/10/putin-appoints-new-russian-envoy-to-nato.html Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as new permanent envoy to NATO, the Kremlin announced Wednesday. Replacing Dmitry...
Apple Computers is one of the most famous corporations in the world. Unfortunately they have had employed contractors who make their products, who employ sweatshop conditions. Such as in China. Well in Russia the Russian Orthodox Church, which has become a de facto arm of the...
Four years after the 2008 blitzkrieg between Russia and Georgia, and twelve years after the official end of the war in Chechnya, will tensions in the Caucasus flare up yet again? Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi are growing more and more strained, and matters...
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Putin on the Ritz He’s on a roll, like tanks against the Germans on the eastern front. Putin and the gang have steamed rolled Russian voters and plowed their way back into office. See the video....
As Vladimir Putin is embarking on his third term as Russia's president, it becomes useful to know what in Russia really needs changing. The tax system is OK; the property system is OK; the educational system is OK; but there are many things that are not OK.
The worst...
Abnormality What is to be done about it? Whose business is this? Vlad is back. Russians are a tough lot, don’t you think. It has to do with the cold, I believe. Russians overthrew a Royal regime and replaced it...
Stale regime Using my criteria for electing Presidents, you would not see Putin back in government. You may never have seen him in office in the first place. He has no commercial business and economic development...
Russian youth organization Nashi (meaning "Ours"), affiliated with Vladimir Putin, has listed Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a former Soviet dissident, as one of their enemies. My response to them is: How low can you go? I met Lyudmila Alexeyeva in 1988, when my family moved to...
Putin will run again He must be eating lots of yogurt and honey. At a still young age of 58, Vladimir Putin has much experience for certain. Continuity in government can be an asset. Functioning government is...
By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Putin's Twilight Putin is losing his grip on power. His allies – not least former KGB and current FSB operatives – are deserting him in droves, put off by his recent economic failures, the ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, is in jail. Everybody agrees to say that his trial was far from being fair and no one knows if he’ll eventually be freed one day! Nonetheless, Khodorkovsky’s American lawyer (and PR guy) Robert...