Registan.net has posted up a nine-page executive summary of a long report compiled by John Bumgarner of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit. Steve LeVine at Oil and Glory talked with and analyzed the results… which show that complic...
Bear with me through the off-color Angela Merkel jokes up to about minute 2:30 of this clip from The Colbert Report… “This dog is either asleep after a long day of commuting, or he spoke out against Vladimir Putin.” C...
Wow, it is really starting to feel like military Thursday. Here’s another story from Wired’s Danger Room reminding us that why Washington isn’t really all that concerned over Russia’s frequent gestures of hostility: D...
This story of the disappearing “lumber” freighter just keeps getting stranger and stranger, as this excerpt from the Moscow Times shows. At least we know that it wasn’t a completely inside job – even though Russian of...
Did you know that Igor Sechin allegedly worked with the famous arms dealer Viktor Bout back in Mozambique in the 1980s? Neither did I, but you probably already know we have been watching all these orders coming for more Russian tanks from Ve...
The words “missiles” and “friendly” don’t often go together, but the people at Boeing have sensed an opportunity for such semantic innovation – conveniently they could also make a lot of money from the silly ima...
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko has said that electricity prices must increase following the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant as it has seen a quarter of RusHydro’s power production suspended. Clean-up efforts hav...
The Interior Ministry’s $755,900 tender for luxury furniture including a 24-carat gold painted bed has raised outcry among ordinary Russians losing sleep over money worries. The bond is apparently part of a cost-crunching drive, to sav...
TODAY: Medvedev admits terrorists have strong hand in Caucasus; proposes sidestepping trial by jury for special cases; technological breakthrough to solve missile defence situation? Ukraine-Russia issues still making waves; church reacts on ...
Diane Francis, columnist at the Financial Post, wrote up a short column about the Eligio Cedeño case in Venezuela interviewing Robert Amsterdam, making mention of the Rusoro controversy, which has a Russia-related angle. “Venezuela said it w...
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