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Russian Oil? Under Serious Constraints
2008-06-06 18:45:00 I spoke on this subject in the middle of April, but there is more news coming? ?News of falling oil output has hit Moscow political circles like a bomb.? So states a recent article in the Hundustan Times, another ?go to? source for news about what is REALLY happening in the energy industry. The Kremlin has invested heavily in Russia?s image as an energy superpower. During the recent Russian Victory Day celebrations on May 9, many commentators referred to Russia?s energy sector as one of the key elements of Russian power. Energy took a top billing, right along with Russia?s traditional military might and still-potent…
By: Jutia Group
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault ?First Wave? Video
2008-06-03 05:01:00 Today Sierra Entertainment released a new video for there upcoming real-time tactical video game World in Conflict: Soviet Assault for the PS3 and Xbox 360.This game was released for the PC back in 2007 and this game is due on retail stores in Fall 2008.This video made up of real in-game footage plays ...
Gina Carano AKA Crush plays the Soviet Commando in Red Alert 3
2008-06-01 14:24:00 Gina Carano AKA Crush is set to play the Soviet Commando Natasha in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3’s campy FMV live-action cutscenes. The Russian hero Natasha Volkova will be portrayed by MMA fighter Gina Carano, known as Crush on American Gladiators, who will be carrying a Soviet Dragunov rifle on-screen and supposedly as a ...
Russia: Soviet Union War Hero On Trial In Estonia!
2008-05-29 13:22:00 Arnold Meri Hello,Estonia has put an 88 year old veteran of the WWII. Moscow is having some real issues over this.........---------------------------------------------Arnol-d Meri is being tried in Estonia for genocide during WW2. But in Russia the 88-year-old veteran is considered a hero, and streets and schools are named after him.Arnold Meri is an Estonian national who was awarded the highest state medal during the war. Estonia accuses him of taking part in the deportation of hundreds of his countrymen to Siberia after the war. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.A village in Russia’s Pskov region is naming a school after the veteran. It educated the regiment under Meri’s command in 1941. Back then, Meri organised the region’s defences against the invading Nazis. He was wounded several times in action.And the city of Gorno-Altaisk in Southern Urals is giving Meri’s name to a street. He lived there after he was stripped of all honours in 1952. Meri ...
Soviet Troops Freed Auschwitz. Can You Spot Obama's Uncle ?
2008-05-27 23:37:00 click photo to enlarge edward cropper(guest Blogger) Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Telling the Soviet story
2008-05-22 14:52:00 A new film about Nazi-Soviet links BEING burnt in effigy on the streets of Moscow by nationalist hoodlums must count as a kind of Oscar if you are a Latvian filmmaker whose aim is to expose modern Russia’s blindness to the criminal history of the Soviet Union. The ire of Young Russia’s protest outside the Latvian ...
By: 1913 Intel
Obama: Nuclear Iran nothing compared to Soviet Cold War threat
2008-05-19 19:00:00 Wow…just listen. Then read Ed Morrissey’s response. Wow. Where to begin with this silliness? - Hotair Obama speaking at an Oregon rally yesterday: “We shouldn’t be… You know, Iran they spend one one-hundreth of what we spend on the military. I mean if Iran tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn’t stand a chance. And ...
May 15, 1987 ? Polyus: The Soviet Response to Star Wars
2008-05-15 07:01:00 On this day in engineering history, the Soviet Union launched the Polyus spacecraft, a military test bed which could have changed the course of the Cold War. Built largely from spare parts, the orbiting weapons platform was rushed into production after U.S. President Ronald Reagan proposed hi
This Day In History - Luna 5 was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft designed
2008-05-13 21:59:00 Luna 5 was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing. On May 10, the spacecraft began spinning around its main axis due to a problem in a flotation gyroscope in the I-100 guidance system unit. An attempt to fire the main engine failed because of a ground control error, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "This Day In History - Luna 5 was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft designed", url: "http://top-dollar-website.com/-articles/this-day-in-history-lu-na-5-was-an-unmanned-soviet-spa-cecraft-designed.html" });
By: Top Dollar Blog
With the New Russian President Vowing to Steer a Steady Ship, U.S. Investor
2008-05-09 18:00:00 New Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants better links with Europe. Judging by the performance of outgoing President Vladimir Putin, Europe should beware: The so-called “links” he?s seeking may resemble those used to chain together prisoners in the Gulag. On the other hand - though it?s admittedly unpleasant to say so - there?s a point at which the effects of high oil prices are so great that in the short run they far outweigh one?s distaste for the thuggish Russian regime. And at $123 a barrel, we may be at that point. Politically, Russia has pretty much reverted to the pre-1991 Soviet system. Today,…SHARETHIS.addEntry-({ title: "With the New Russian President Vowing to Steer a Steady Ship, U.S. Investors Can Look to Profit", url: "http://jutiagroup.com/2008/05/-09/with-the-new-russian-preside-nt-vowing-to-steer-a-steady-shi-p-us-investors-can-look-to-prof-it/" });
By: Jutia Group
Soviet Style Solution to Los Angeles Housing Costs
2008-05-08 15:54:00 So, here is how it breaks down. You buy a property that is not that expensive, and rather than having the freedom to improve that property to make it worth more, thus making a (gasp) nice profit, you are limited because you might make it more difficult for a poor person to afford to live there.
1924 Soviet annimated propganda and science fiction
2008-05-04 21:08:00 1924 Soviet annimated propganda and science fiction
Tanks, Rockets Roll Across Red Square in Soviet Parade Revival
2008-04-25 06:39:00 More than 100 tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles, flanked by 8,000 soldiers, rattled across the tarmac, while sorties of jet fighters ripped through the sky as army generals saluted below. The display wasn’t in communist North Korea or China. It was a practice for a May 9 parade of Russian military hardware on Moscow’s Red ...
By: 1913 Intel
In Soviet Russia, screw drives YOU!
2008-04-22 22:55:00 From Hemmings Auto Blogs: I found the following vehicle while browsing the interwebs, and it seemed too good not to pass along: Russian Zil-29061 A quick internet search turned up additional information and photos at http://fulgerica.com/en/?p=167- Pretty screwy, huh? What kin
This Day In History - Korean Air Flight 902 Shot Down by Soviet Fighters
2008-04-21 08:01:00 Korean Air Flight 902 Shot Down by Soviet Fighters Korean Air Flight 902 was a civilian flight shot down by Soviet fighters after it violated Soviet airspace and failed to respond to interceptors. One rocket caused heavy damage to part of the left wing and punctured the fuselage, causing rapid decompression and killing two passengers. ...
By: Top Dollar Blog
Soviet Union Domain Still Kicking
2008-04-19 04:41:00 Soviet Union Domain Still KickingThe Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising. Registrations increased 45% this year alon...
The Soviet Union extension .SU just won?t go away
2008-04-15 17:46:00 ICANN is still attempting to get rid of the obsolete SU (Soviet Union) extension with little success. While they have managed to turn off the .YU (Yugoslavia) extension successfully last year, they are finding rebellion among Russian webmasters, ISPs and the Registry itself. To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging ...
Post-Soviet Russian Anti-Americanism and the Post-War German Experience
2008-04-14 06:00:00 Since the publication of Alexander Yanov’s 1995 book After Yeltsin: ‘Weimar’ Russia (Moscow: KRUK; New York: Slovo-Word), a number of Yanov’s predictions for the post-Yeltsin period have come true. Above all, during the last years, sections of the Russian elite have adopted a paranoid vision of the outside, above all Western, world which, in the 1990s, had been a minority view held by the extreme right and paleocommunists. Whether this makes Yanov’s sweeping equation of developments in post-Soviet Russia and inter-war Germany justified or not: It remains a fact that, in spite of relative political stabilization and impressive economic growth during the last years, ultra-nationalism, rabid anti-Americanism and a Russian equivalent of the Dolchstosslegende (legend of a stab in the back) have become major intellectual and political trends in the Russian Federation, and are reminiscent of the Weimar Republic. Like many German politicians, academics and literati after World war...
By: 1913 Intel
7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Island Fortress
2008-04-13 23:00:00 The former Soviet Union has a complicated history that is told in part through some of its deserted infrastructure. Many of these structures, cities and areas were abandoned suddenly and thus provide a kind of snapshot of Soviet life frozen in time. Others tell stories of economic and political upheaval and even nuclear events. From ...
By: Web Urbanist
7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Mining Towns to
2008-04-13 23:00:00 The former Soviet Union has a complicated history that is told in part through some of its deserted infrastructure. Many of these structures, cities and areas were abandoned suddenly and thus provide a kind of snapshot of Soviet life frozen in time. Others tell stories of economic and political upheaval and even nuclear events. From ...
By: Web Urbanist
7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Mining Towns to
2008-04-13 23:00:00 The former Soviet Union has a complicated history that is told in part through some of its deserted infrastructure. Many of these structures, cities and areas were abandoned suddenly and thus provide a kind of snapshot of Soviet life frozen in time. Others tell stories of economic and political upheaval and even nuclear events. From oil rig cities and deserted industrial towns to dazzling island fortresses and once-luxurious estates of the Soviet elite here are seven more amazing Soviet abandonments. For more Soviet abandonments (from gruesome gulags to submarine bases) check out part one of this series. Abandoned Island Fortress: Fort Alexander sits abandoned on a man-made island off the shore of St. Petersburg. Constructed in the 1800s, the fort has over 100 cannon ports providing 360-degree defense. After the Crimean War it was initially used as a military storehouse before being converted by the Soviets into a dangerous plague research center due to its physical isolation from...
By: Web Urbanist
Soviet spaceship sails to German home
2008-04-10 03:32:00 The one-time pride of the Soviet space program is making a decidedly sedate journey to its new home, chugging up the Rhine River aboard a pontoon boat.
In Soviet Russia, Content Scrapes YOU
2008-03-29 18:31:00 Nickycakes was doing some Technorati “promotion” the other day and had a glance at the blog reactions for nickycakes.com. For those who don’t know about blog reactions, it’s technorati’s way of displaying inbound links from other blogs to yours. Showing up in the reactions were some links from some Russian speaking blogs with ...
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault é para PC, X360 e PS3
2008-03-28 19:04:00 De acordo com a última edição tcheco-eslovaca da publicação Official Xbox 360 Magazine, o jogo "World in Conflict: Soviet Assault" terá versões para PC, Xbox 360 e Playstation 3. O título é, na verdade, uma grande expansão da primeira versão lançada em 2007 apenas para o PC. Só que desta vez, o X360 terá não ...
By: Audiogame
soviet propaganda!
2008-03-13 04:58:00 so matt butcher asked me to do a banner for his comic review site independentpropoganda.com . i got the propoganda bit stuck in my head and decided to try my hand at soviet propaganda. i realized that i am rather good at dooing commie posters. FOR THE MOTHERLAND! eh?
By: the feeding tube
Soviet Bus Stops.
2008-03-11 19:00:00 Soviet Bus Stops.A wonderful collection of images of bus stops from the gone by Soviet era. Something which reminds us of the fantastic Soviet architecture & design, though now most of these must have been out of existence with modernization over a period of time. Other Posts:Vegetable Art.Amazing Body Painting Art.Amazing Smoke Art Photography.IC & Old Transistors Got a New Use.Amazing Street Paintings Of Kurt Wenner.
By: algebra of life
7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union
2008-03-04 09:03:00 The Soviet Union is home many abandoned structures. Ranging from buildings to military bases we have collected a gallery of great photos showing some of Russia's most amazing abandoned projects.
Russia vs. the Ukraine: Gazprom always wins
2008-02-15 16:15:00 The Ukraine government is a teenage boy, and a rather ungrateful teenage boy, at that. The former Soviet Bloc country wants to be independent and chose its own friends. But at the same time, it still wants an allowance from good old Dad. And in this case, Dad is Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, which threatened ...
By: Jutia Group
In Soviet Russia, Windows 7 finds you
2008-02-14 08:46:00 If you thought you knew all there is to know about Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519, think again. TGDaily and ThinkNext may have broken the news, but both have done a pretty sloppy job of uncovering what is exactly in Windows 7 M1. This is where the trusty Russians come in. Microsoft enthusiast “Raiker” has recently posted his own findings of this infamous yet mysterious leaked build of Windows 7. Surprisingly weeks after the first screenshots were published, he’s still able to uncover some small gems the other guys missed. The article was written in Russian, but Google Translate helps get most of the ideas across. (via UX Evangelist) First and foremost, Raiker discovered during the initial setup, Windows 7 also asks you to set up a HomeGroup. Whilst there’s no explanation what HomeGroup is exactly, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots between the all-too-familiar WorkGroup and HomeGroup. As far as I know, WorkGroups doesn’t...
Russian unorthodox: Alternative sects face discrimination in a post-Soviet
2008-02-09 13:37:00 The Latter-Day Saints, like a raft of other non-Orthodox faiths, including Jehovah's Witnesses, have been labelled "totalitarian sects" by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose criticism is frequently tinged with nationalism. In the past decade, the Russian government has severely restricted the activities of these churches, whose followers routinely face harassment, discrimination and even detention.
Russian Women Smokers Doubled Since Soviet Collapse
2008-01-31 05:59:00 Number of Russian women smokers has doubled since Soviet collapse The number of Russian women who smoke has more than doubled since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to new research. In 1992, seven per cent of women smoked, compared to almost 15 per cent by 2003. In the same period, the number of men who ...
The gems of Soviet animation
2008-01-28 20:11:00 Soviet animation was in a way unique. There were lots of extremely weird cartoons which, i think, left a heavy impact on the psyche of the growing generation. Take “Hedgehog in the Fog“, for example - there’s no single way of interpreting of this creation. Apparently, it won the “?1 Animated film of all the ...
The gems of Soviet animation
2008-01-28 20:11:00 Soviet animation was in a way unique. There were lots of extremely weird cartoons which, i think, left a heavy impact on the psyche of the growing generation. Take “Hedgehog in the Fog“, for example - there’s no single way of interpreting of this creation. Apparently, it won the “?1 Animated film of all the ...
7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: Deserted Cities, Buildings,
2008-01-28 01:42:00 There are amazing abandonments in America but the former Soviet Union has some of the most interesting, unique and strange abandoned buildings. The complex political, military and social history of the country has led to everything from almost-finished buildings abandoned before actual use and entire abandoned cities to chilling gulags in which tens of millions ...
By: Web Urbanist
7 Super-Sized (And Somewhat Insane) Soviet Projects
2008-01-22 14:17:00 From mental_floss Blog: The Soviet Union decided the best way to show up the West was to build the biggest version of any given object. The following are just seven of the largest examples. Here's number 5. 5. The World's Largest Hydrofoil The world's largest hydrofoil wasn't r
The worst thing to ever come out of the former Soviet Union
2008-01-16 07:44:00 Sure, many negative things emerged from the Soviet Union: abysmal customer service, frightening post offices, hideous architecture from the 1960s onwards... but I remain convinced that the worst holdover from the Soviet Union is the cat pee box. While in the West we developed litter boxes filled with a variety of clumping, odor controlling cat litter, covered litter boxes and even self-flushing litter boxes, the former Soviet Union gives you this horrid contraption:Pleasant, huh? And I bet you can guess how wonderful this contraption is at odor control. Now there *is* kitty litter to be found here; however, thus far I have only located it in one store at an outrageous price ? something like $21 for a mere couple of pounds! I have three cats; at that price, I?d be spending my entire salary on litter. Instead I?ve opted for the following method of odor control:Ok, so perhaps this isn?t the best solution, but it improves the air quality of my apartment quite substantially. You know, as...
?Back in the USSR!? or Sidecar for Soviet Veterans.
2008-01-13 20:53:00 The theme of this MxMo is Brandy. Of course I have some bottle of brandy in my bar! But… What about I may post? About Pisco - muscat grape brandy from Chile? No… About Calvados - well aged apple brandy from France? Or about Palinka - plum brandy from Hungary? No, I think no. Actually I ...
By: Science Of Drink
Soviet Cosmic Experience
2007-12-31 09:49:00 In 1976 the Soviet Union started to develop the reusable spacecraft Buran. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration. Though the Buran might look somewhat similar to NASA's Space Shuttle, features differ. The first and only orbital launch of a (unmanned) Buran was on November 15, 1988. After the first flight, the project was suspended due to lack of funds and the changed political climate in the Soviet Union. The project was officially terminated on June 30, 1993 by President Boris Yeltsin. Part of the Buran shuttle developingprocess were a number of testmodels and mock-ups. This specific Buran used to be a structural test vehicle to messure loads and stresses, heating and vibration. It now rests his days in the small entertainment park Gorky in Moscow. Here kids can visit it as 'Cosmic Experience' movietheatre: a Soviet dream reused to inspire new dreamers. Cosmic Experience, movietheatre NPO Molniya, Buran, # 015, OK-TVA (ca...
By: superuse
Another Soviet in Making???
2007-11-28 19:30:00 With declaration of date for Presidential elections on 2nd December media and blogosphere is full of news related to who will lead the largest country in world. Opinions are multifarious ranging from suppression of free speech to voice of liberal electorate and hailing Putin as most successful leader post Soviet breakdown. Well you can easily predict the media speculation depending on your media source. While US and western commentators have severely criticized the way elections are handled in Russia, reports coming from 'Mother Russia' are mostly favorable possibly due to state control of media. But the real perspective is confusing to people outside. Whatever be Putin's approval rating, whatever be the Russian economic progress the signs given by Russia surely decreases its credibility on International front instead of improving. More and more Anti-Kremlin activists are attacked and arrested in Russia. Russian police broke up an opposition rally and detained about 150 people in...
By: doublethink...
Guest Media Alert: Invasion - A Comparison Of Soviet And Western Media Perf
2007-11-22 22:14:00 by Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens Part 1 can be found here. Blaming ‘External Interference’ A striking feature of Soviet media performance on Afghanistan was its focus on “external interference” - primarily US in origin - and the role of this interference in fuelling the war. In 1988, Pravda reported that Afghan president Najibula had criticised this ”interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan”. (Pravda, February 9, 1988) The newspaper failed to mention that the Soviet Union was itself guilty of illegal external “interference“. Instead, journalists blamed the West for ”pouring oil onto the fire of the Afghan conflict”. (Pravda, February 22, 1987) Ignoring the fact that much of the fighting in Afghanistan was in "response" to the Soviet occupation, the media were also heavily critical of Iran and Pakistan. Iran was criticised for “supporting the armed Islamic opposition” and for “sending its political emissaries and agents into the territory of Afghanistan”. (Sp...
Guest Media Alert: Invasion — A Comparison Of Soviet And Western Media Perf
2007-11-22 17:59:00 by Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens Introduction The writer Simon Louvish once told the story of a group of Soviets touring the United States before the age of glasnost. After reading the newspapers and watching TV, they were amazed to find that, on the big issues, all the opinions were the same. "In our country," they said: "...to get that result we have a dictatorship, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here you have none of that. So what's your secret? How do you do it?" (Quoted, John Pilger, Tell Me No Lies, Random House, 2004, p.9) It's a good question, one being asked by Nikolai Lanine who served with the Soviet Army during its 1979-1989 occupation of Afghanistan, but who now lives and works as a peace activist in Canada. Lanine has spent several years trawling through Soviet-era newspaper archives comparing the propaganda of that time with modern Western media performance. If the claims of modern professional journalism are to be believ...
Central Asian Women Still Struggle for Political Rights Years After Soviet
2007-11-17 05:15:00 Central Asian Women Still Struggle for Political Rights Years After Soviet Rule
Soviet TV case mod: Be happy you?ve got today?s TVs
2007-11-13 14:45:00 Not too long ago, this Soviet-era wooden TV was the 1080p, 70-inch plasma of its day. Now it’s computer case mod, sitting casually atop your desk like a proud worker. Honor it. Case Mod: Soviet-Era Wooden TV [Boing Boing Gadgets]
Iowa Boy, Soviet Spy
2007-11-13 13:34:00 The New York Times looks a the life of a Soviet spy who had access to the Manhattan Project. No, I had never heard of him either. Guess it all very embarrassing and hushed up. Now we know how the Soviets built their bomb. Good ol’ American ingenuity and Soviet sneakiness. ...
New York Times Celebrates Soviet Spy
2007-11-12 18:15:00 More red meat for the socialists He had all-American cover: born in Iowa, college in Manhattan, Army buddies with whom he played baseball. George Koval also had a secret. During World War II, he was a top Soviet spy, code named Delmar and trained by Stalin?s ruthless bureau of military intelligence. Atomic spies are old stuff. But historians ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Vaclav Klaus: Environmentalism is an ideology like Soviet Communism
2007-11-08 23:20:00 Last night I attended a talk at Chatham House where His Excellency Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, faced-off with Professor Robert Watson of the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I, like everyone in the room, walked in with a pretty fixed set of ideas, none of which ...
By: Carson's Post
Soviet Communist Legacy?Alive And Well In Russia
2007-11-07 00:33:00 November 7th marks the 90th anniversary of the establishment of a Bolshevik government in Russia. In theory, the Soviet Union expired nearly twenty years ago, but its legacy is firmly established in Putin’s Russia. Vladmir Putin would readily fit into a Soviet Union Politburo where he undoubtedly would implement similar governing rules as he ...
Pre-Dawn: The French-Soviet VESTA mission
2007-11-05 13:14:00 3D model of the asteroid VestaThe Dawn spaceprobe was launched toward the asteroid belt a month ago now. Few people remember that the Soviet Union was also planning a multiple asteroid flyby mission in the 80's. After the successful cooperation between France and the Soviets on the VEGA Venus (and Halley comet flyby) mission in 1984-85, a new project was proposed. The Vesta mission would have consisted of two identical probes (just like earlier Soviet Venus missions), to be launched in 1991. Similar to the Vega mission, each spacecraft would deploy one or more landers or balloons into the Venusian atmosphere, and then proceed to its next target. At Venus, a French satellite dedicated to asteroid flybys would be released. It would return to us for an Earth swing-by, and then reach about 3-3.3 AUs from the Sun. There they would fly by some smaller asteroids, and Vesta, if possible, with a small probe landing there (that's why the mission was named VESTA). The exact targets depend, ...
By: Space Files
Rosenbergs' Soviet spy overseer dies
(AP)
2007-11-02 17:40:00 AP - Alexander Feklisov, the Soviet-era spy chief who oversaw the espionage work of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and helped mediate the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, has died, a Russian official said Friday. He was 93. |
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