The United Persons » Russia http://theunitedpersons.org helping you to save the world... & some of your tax money;) Tue, 08 May 2012 11:24:14 +0000 en hourly 1 Russia’s Crime of the Century How crooked officials… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/russias-crime-of-the-century http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/russias-crime-of-the-century#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:44:38 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7654

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

Cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479865

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/russias-crime-of-the-century/feed 0 BRICS make move to shove dollar aside Leading… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/brics-make-move-to-shove-dollar-aside http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/brics-make-move-to-shove-dollar-aside#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:20:49 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7543

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

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/brics-make-move-to-shove-dollar-aside/feed 0 Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’ The… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:05:57 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=7062

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

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US says South-Stream&Nabucco could merge http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy/us-says-south-stream-and-nabucco-could-merge-news-501107

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/us-says-south-stream-nabucco-could-merge/feed 0 Kill Bill for Microsoft: Putin Orders Russian Government Move to Free Software http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/kill-bill-for-microsoft http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/kill-bill-for-microsoft#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:03:27 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=2408

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/12/putin-orders-russian-move-to-gnulinux.html

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/kill-bill-for-microsoft/feed 0 If it is full democracy, then why have t… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/if-it-is-full-democracy-then-why-have-t http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/if-it-is-full-democracy-then-why-have-t#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:16:36 +0000 admin http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/if-it-is-full-democracy-then-why-have-t 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

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/if-it-is-full-democracy-then-why-have-t/feed 0 The International Space Station (ISS) Mu… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/international-dockingstandard http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/international-dockingstandard#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:43:54 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=1541

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

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/19/2251230/International-Effort-Brings-an-Open-Standard-For-Docking-In-Space

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]]> http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/international-dockingstandard/feed 0 Why the U.S. Has Launched a New Financia… http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/why-the-us-has-launched-a-new-financial-world-war http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/why-the-us-has-launched-a-new-financial-world-war#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:27:49 +0000 mazsa http://theunitedpersons.org/?p=1509

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

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