Russia and China argue for more diplomacy with Syria

America and allies said enough diplomacy and advocate force and revolution. Anti-UN sentiment is often fueled under these circumstances. Strong-arm regimes such as the Russian Federation and China are on the...

Did Russia stiff Europe’s gas supply?

National needs first is the way of the world Get used to it: customers first – first the supplier nation’s customers and then everyone else. Supplier integrity and reputation is at stake in these matters. Did...

Nashi and Lyudmila Alexeyeva

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...

Pune International Film Festival held on 12Jan 12-Mazzacinema.com

Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) is set to start on 12 Jan 2012 to 19 Jan 2012,10th Pune International Film Festival, jointly organised by the Pune Film Foundation and the Governement of Maharashtra is to be...

Chechnya and South Ossetia: Which is Better Partner?

For many years, Russians have used military power and financial outlays to forcibly keep Chechnya as part of Russia. Meanwhile there is another region in the same area - called South Ossetia - that wants to join the Russian Federation. My question to Russian leadership is...

India's Caste of Characters, in Canada we call it something else!

Annie Namala, a Dalit activist for New Delhi's Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion was a featured columnist for the National Post this December, taking questions from Canadian readers curious about India's...

Mikhail Prokhorov Considers Marrying to Become the President

To the attention of all Cinderellas out there: the Russian Prince Charming, Mikhail Prokhorov has decided to enter the presidential elections in 2012. There is only one obstacle on his passage to the Kremlin, and that is a wife, or better, the lack thereof. Demonstrating...

Violence as Putin party suffers poll setback

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Moscow, accusing the ruling United Russia party of rigging Sunday's parliamentary elections. Police arrested about 300 activists during clashes as tensions mount....

Russia's ruling party wary as nation votes

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians cast their ballots with muted enthusiasm in national parliamentary elections Sunday, a vote that opinion polls indicate could water down the strength of the party led by Prime Minister...

Hilton Hotels To Create 1,500 Jobs In UK

Hilton is to create around 1,500 jobs as part of an expansion plan in the UK, which will see 20 new hotels being built over the next few years. The firm is also expecting to open more than 110 new hotels across...

Review of the CNN GOP debate from across the Big Pond

Last evenings CNN Republican Candidate debate was moderated by Wolf Blitzer, regular host of the Situation room.  Thisdebate, co-hosted in Washington, D.C., by the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, focussed on four main issues — national defense,...

one side says development - other says destroy

Russia and Iran discussed expanding cooperation for rail development yesterday at the ongoing Second Russian Railway Conference in Moscow. Chairman of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin met with visiting...

Russia's Makarov asks - US Wants Nuclear War?

General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, stated today that "I cannot rule out ... local and regional armed conflicts escalating into a large-scale war, possibly even...

Social Media Turning Americans Into Socialists, Study Warns

Washington, DC - America’s growing use of social media is transforming the population of the United States into “a gang of pinko, socialist subversives,” according to a study by a leading conservative think...

Mock Mars mission ‘returns’ to Earth

In a few hours, the crew of the international “mission” to Mars will finally “return” to Earth in Moscow, bringing one of the world's most grueling scientific experiments to a close. Six volunteers,...

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