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Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 13 days ago
Shooting of unmanned aircraft described as 'provocation' by Moscow as row over breakaway province rumbles on ...
Source: uk.news.yahoo.com --- 90 days ago
The widow of murdered dissident Alexander Litvinenko has praised Gordon Brown for "standing firm" in his discussions with the new Russian president. ... Source: edition.cnn.com --- 87 days ago
Britain has said it is "wholly unacceptable" for Russian authorities to have accused one of its diplomats of spying. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 90 days ago
'We very strongly believe the Litvinenko case to have had some state involvement, there are very strong indications that it was a state action,' the senior security official told the BBC. ... Source: www.reuters.com --- 13 days ago
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defense Ministry on Tuesday denied a claim by Georgia it had shot down an unmanned Russian Spy drone over its territory. ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 33 days ago
In its first such manoeuvre for five years, the ISS (International Space Station), was forced into a slightly lower orbit last Wednesday to dodge a piece of debris from a defunct Russian Spy satellite. Had it not done so, there was thought to have been a one in 72 chance of a collision over Brazil just two hours later. An acceptable limit is taken as about one in 10,000. The change of orbit was made using the rocket motors of Europe's Jules Verne cargo craft, currently joined to the ISS. Now stuffed with garbage, this is due to undock on Friday and spend a few weeks flying separately before plunging to destruction in a fiery re-entry on the 29th. As our BST predictions show, the ISS is now visible again as it soars eastwards across our pre-dawn sky, sometimes emerging from eclipse in the Earth's shadow in the directions flagged by asterisks. From Saturday, we may also spot Jules Verne, nothing like as brilliant as the ISS, as it traces a similar arc across the morning sky. Related Stories Plan for tube tickets on mobile phones Environment: Solar plants in deserts could yield water and crops Successful trial for phone that incorporates Oyster and Barclaycard Tom Vanderbilt takes the UK driving test Education: Glitches hold up study grants for pupils ...
Source: blog.bodybuilding.com --- 65 days ago
Ooooh….what to blog about? How about a random stream of consciousness blog? This is mostly what they always are. I can’t say I’ve ever planned anything. Good old fashioned endorphins are a flowin. Thought about changing my short term goal to "embrace the pain"...in a sense this is what it is all about. How are you [...] ... Source: blogs.jsonline.com --- 25 days ago
Toronto - There are about 350 films showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. And while I saw far less than 10% of them, I feel safe in generalizing that most to all of them had dialogue. It may have been in a language other than English, but the words being spoken combined with the images being shown to help communicate the ideas being expressed. So let me pause and share some of what was being said. "You can’t be a lawman and let someone take your prisoner." - Ed Harris in "Appaloosa" "Whisky is the new vodka." - A Russian oligarch in "RocknRolla." "I will not wear the uniform of a prisoner. I demand to wear my own clothes." - A prisoner in the IRA drama "Hunger." "Nobody was more excited than naked guy." - Greg Kinnear about a fellow ghost who died without his clothes on to the only man who can help them in "Ghost Town." "You can be a Spy too." - A divorce lawyer advising Tilda Swinton to steal her CIA analyst husband’s financial data in "Burn After Reading. "Why defend a nation that doesn't want you?" - An Axis Sally type broadcasting to black soldiers in Spike Lee’s "Miracle of St. Anna." "It feels like I'm swimming in milk." - A man who suddenly loses his sight in the metaphorical plague drama "Blindness." "Because of his talent and the hope of working for him again, you forgive him a lot." - Claire Danes, as Orson Welles’ assistant in "Me and Orson Welles." "I love that Porta-John. It was the best thing that happene ... Source: englishrussia.com --- 31 days ago
Thirty eight years ago, in 1970 there was a hundred year anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who inspired Russian people to overthrow the previous Tsar government in Russia in 1917. He was a real icon for many Russians and so in one Siberian town some woodcutters decided to celebrate this anniversary by cutting all the trees on a big field leaving only those that would form a really huge message "100 Years to Lenin". There were no Google Earth back there, no satellite photos on Internet, no Internet itself, so they didn't do it for some Internet trick, like "See what we have down pointing your sat pictures browser to .....". The real reasons are not clear and forgotten now, maybe they got an order from Moscow to make such a big message for American Spy satellites, maybe it was their own wish to create something that cannot be observed from the Earth by a regular person. Anyways now, 30 years later we can see it. You can see it from Google yourself following this link . You can see it on google earth yourself. "> read more.. ... Source: englishrussia.com --- 31 days ago
Russia exports a lot of armaments and military equipments to other countries. Some more countries would like to buy it too but their budgets can't afford them to do this, so Russian engineers have created a full set of fake weaponry for some countries. If you are a military leader of some not-so-rich country you can be as cool as your more wealthy neighbors. It would be just like a real thing for the foreign satellites or Spy-planes, just bring it to the place, inflate and you are done. read more.. ... Source: www.militaryphotos.net --- 34 days ago
Check this out: Africanabkhazian! This dude really kicks ass: Image: http://i034.radikal.ru/0809/b1/8890294e1bb7.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru) THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Its a real photo. (notice how his traditional caucasian fur hat looks like the "afro" haircut :D ) Here the story of abkhazian negroes (Russian links): http://ssmirnoff.livejournal.com/722159.html http://old.russ.ru/ist_sovr/20021015-pr.html _http://www.mk.ru/blogs/idmk/2003/05/23/mk-daily/11316/_ Image: http://s59.radikal.ru/i165/0809/2c/1b42539de192.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru) Their story begins a few hundred years ago. Some people say the foreign slave ship crushed near the shores and slaves survived and made a colony. Others say that one of the local barons bought a slaves. Then they got a freedom. Negroes assimilated with locals, using local language and traditions. They had a nickname "Shavi-Katsi" ("black people") but they were treated good and there was a lot of multinational merriages. Their main occupation was agricultural work, theu ignored big towns and factories. During the last war between Georgia and Abkhasia there was a black abkhazian guy who was a military Spy. Georgians thought he is a UN observer. He helped Abkhazian army a lot. On the second photo - Nutsa Abash, 74, and her family. ...
Source: www.gossiprocks.com --- 32 days ago
---Quote--- *Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger* 19:57 - 31/08/2008 Image: http://www.eleconomista.es/imagenes/iconos/letra-mas.gif (http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/728068/08/08/Russias-Putin-saves-TV-crew-from-Siberian-tiger.html#)Image: http://www.eleconomista.es/imagenes/iconos/letra-menos.gif (http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/728068/08/08/Russias-Putin-saves-TV-crew-from-Siberian-tiger.html#) By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fetedby Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from anattack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East. Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West overGeorgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to anational park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in thewild. Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlifespecialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and rantowards a nearby camera crew, the country's main televisionstation said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it witha tranquilizer gun. "Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predatorup close but also saved our television crew too," a presenteron Rossiya television said at the start of the main eveningnews. The 55-year-old former KGB Spy, who cultivated a machoimage during his eight years as the Kremlin chief, was shownstriding through the taiga in camouflage and desert bootsbefore grappling with t ...
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Hedge funds have reputations for being shrouded in mystery, but a London-based fund that specializes in investing in Russia finds itself at the center of a story that's a downright thriller. Hermitage Capital Management, a $3 billion fund that also invests in emerging markets, recently put out an investor letter that reads more like a Spy novel than an update to investors about performance. Indeed, the note describes police raids, fake companies and at least one murderer all connected to a twisted and complex fraud scheme hatched by thieves who stole millions from the Russian government. Hermitage's July 23 letter states that while thieves targeting the firm failed to get their hands on its assets, they succeeded in stealing millions from the Russian government by posing as Hermitage officials. And earlier this month, the fund put out a press release saying officers from the Russian Interior Ministry had raided Moscow law firms hired by Hermitage to help end the fraud. While it may sound like a tall tale, the person doing the telling is Hermitage founder William Browder, a respected financier who's known for making a mint by helping stamp out fraud in Russian companies until he was kicked out of the country in 2005 after having stepped on too many toes. And backing his claims is London bank HSBC, which has filed criminal complaints in Russia as Hermitage's trustee. "I've never seen anything like this in my l ... Source: www.birminghampost.net --- 90 days ago
The widow of murdered dissident Alexander Litvinenko has praised Gordon Brown for "standing firm" in his discussions with the new Russian president. ... Find more results for Russian Spy on RSSMicro.com |
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Some have formally called for Russia’s Ministry of Culture to prevent “Hitler Kaput!”- a satirical tale of a Soviet agent from opening in theaters. ...
Expanded Books - On the run from Russian mobsters, a desperate Spy finds two unexpected allies, and together the trio weaves an electrifying Christmas tale of danger and discovery in THE Spy WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS by David Morrell. ...
Though the whole Russo-Georgia conflict seems to be slowly (and not too surely) drawing to a peaceful conclusion, Russia's still pulling out a couple of war tactics to keep neighboring countries nervous. Russian balloon maker Rusbal has ramped up production on full-scale inflatable weapons and armaments, meant to trick passing satellites and Spy planes about the country's real military strength. Russia wouldn't be the first to employ this crazy tactic; An elaborate deception during World War II called “Fortitude South” used inflatable rubber armaments to create the illusion of a large invasion force being massed in Kent, leading Germany to concentrate their forces in Pas-de-Calais rather than Normandy. More recently, Iraq used fake military hardware to mislead allied pilots on bombing raids during the Gulf War. [ Wired: Danger Room and English Russia ...
I would be a huge dork if I began this post with the sentence, "This is the best news ever," but it kind of is. One of my favorite (and yours too) scriptwriters is making a return to the big screen -- and may it be a triumphant one. According to Variety , Shane Black is directing Cold Warrior for Universal Pictures from a script penned by Chuck Mondry. This will be his second outing as a director -- his first was, of course, the fantastic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang . And frankly, Warrior sounds like a film from the heyday of 80's action. It centers on a Spy from the Cold War era who comes out of retirement and teams up with a younger agent to thwart a Russian domestic terrorism plot. It couldn't be more timely given how icy relations are with our Eastern neighbors. (The Russians didn't get to take much of a break from big-screen villainy, did they? I thought their comeback would just arrive via the Russian Mafia, not as terrorists again.) This is going to be a blast to watch -- from the description, I want to believe it's old-school Black, but it could just as easily go into dark and serious Breach territory. Obviously, my fondness for macho men, snappy one-liners, and heavy gunfire hope it's the former. That's the kind of movie that can cure all ills and make you forget your economic woes, isn't it? Filed under: Action , Thrillers , Deals , Universal , Scripts , Newsstand , War Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported Spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom' 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!' 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peacef ...
NASA’s mission to repair the Hubble telescope faces a higher than usual risk of being smashed by space junk. Shuttle program manager John Shannon says a mission to the International Space Station comes with a 1 in 300 chance of a catastrophic debris strike. For the Hubble mission the odds are 1 in 185 ( Reuters ). “It’s worse for Hubble because we fly higher. We’ve had some vehicle breakups on orbit, and they have made the (debris) environment worse,” says Shannon ( Space.com / USA Today ). Both Reuters and the USA Today point the finger at a Russian Spy satellite’s self-destructing and a Chinese satellite-killer missile test for much of the debris. Showing how seriously the risk is being taken, NASA has another Shuttle – Endeavour – on standby in case it has to launch a rescue mission. “It’s just nice extra insurance to have since we’re in a position that we can have a vehicle on the pad ready to go launch. ... We don’t expect to use it, but if we do, we feel very confident we could,” says Shannon ( Florida Today ). Atlantis commander Scott Altman told USA Today , “That comes with the mission. Hubble is where it is. … We’ve got to go where the work is.” Image: rollout Atlantis viewed from inside the Launch Control Center / NASA Kim Shiflett ...