Russia’s Crime of the Century – How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed my partner when he tried to expose them. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_crime_of_the_century?page=full
Tagged: Russia RSS Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
mazsa
-
mazsa
BRICS make move to shove dollar aside “Leading high-growth economies [BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa] have taken landmark steps toward lowering the importance of the dollar in international financial transactions — part of a seminal shift in the move towards a multicurrency reserve and trading system. [...]” http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brics-make-move-to-shove-dollar-aside-2011-04-17
-
mazsa
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’: “The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structural problems — serious problems that would make this machine dangerous to navigate in space. The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed.
The question was: Who would tell Brezhnev? Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command. Everyone who saw that memo, including Russayev, was demoted, fired or sent to diplomatic Siberia. With less than a month to go before the launch, Komarov realized postponement was not an option. He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, “I’m not going to make it back from this flight.”
Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: “If I don’t make this flight, they’ll send the backup pilot instead.” That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn’t do that to his friend. “That’s Yura,” the book quotes him saying, “and he’ll die instead of me. We’ve got to take care of him.” Komarov then burst into tears. [...]” http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/18/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage
-
mazsa
US says South-Stream&Nabucco could merge http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy/us-says-south-stream-and-nabucco-could-merge-news-501107
-
mazsa
Kill Bill for Microsoft: Putin Orders Russian Government Move to Free Software
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/12/putin-orders-russian-move-to-gnulinux.html
-
admin
If it is full democracy, then why have they hidden Mr. Assange in prison? That’s what, democracy? So, you know, as they say in the countryside, some people’s cows can moo, but yours should keep quiet. So I would like to shoot the puck back at our American colleagues, the pot calling the kettle black.
Vladimir Putin -
mazsa
The International Space Station (ISS) Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) has approved for public release an International Docking System Standard (IDSS) which contains the information necessary to describe physical features and design loads of a standard docking interface.
International Space Station Partner Agencies:
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
European Space Agency (ESA)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)http://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/
http://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/download/IDSS_IDD_Basic_Revision_101810_1245.pdf
Cf:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/oct/HQ_10-266_Docking_Standards.html
-
mazsa
Why the U.S. Has Launched a New Financial World War — and How the Rest of the World Will Fight Back http://www.alternet.org/economy/148481/why_the_u.s._has_launched_a_new_financial_world_war_–_and_how_the_rest_of_the_world_will_fight_back_?page=entire
What do you think?
-
admin
-






Senate Candidate Bets Congress $100 Million That the U.S. Government Cannot Run out of Money http://moslereconomics.com/2010/10/22/press-release-3/