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Saturday, October 13, 2007
An Orthodox balm for Europe | csmonitor.com
In the current expansion eastward, however, it is inevitable that the values and mores of European institutions and alliances will be shaped more and more by the traditionalist views of Orthodox Christian believers and less and less by the modern, secularized Protestant assumptions of Western European democracies. Orthodox believers already far outnumber Protestants across Europe, and by some estimates they may eventually even
Friday, July 27, 2007
NPR : Reports of Sabotage, Drunk Astronauts Plague NASA
In the 1998 movie blockbuster "Armageddon," Bruce Willis gives a group of "astronauts" one last night on the town before they embark on their earth-saving mission. The same movie also gives us a memorable caricature of a drunken Russian cosmonaut wearing a CCCP tee-shirt.
Verily, truth is so much stranger than fiction.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Censored Article by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, "Containing Russia: Back to the Future?"
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Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has withdrawn the above article, accepted for publication in Foreign Affairs magazine, accusing that publication of behaving in a manner "reminiscent of the worst aspects of past Soviet censorship" for cutting his article by 40% and insisting on a subtitle that contradicted the author's thesis.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
BostonHerald.com: Leading US lawmaker likens former German chancellor to "political prostitute."
In 2006, the average CEO of a Standard & Poor's 500 company received $14.78 million in total compensation, according to a preliminary analysis by The Corporate Library. Gerhard Schroeder's salary of 250,000 euros a year ($325,000) as head of the shareholders' committee of the Nord Stream AG looks paltry by comparison, and Congressman Tom Lantos' remarks--simply boorish.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Miles Kington: Diana\'s death and the Russian conspiracy - Independent Online Edition > Miles Kington
I suppose the truth had to come out one day . . .
Sunday, June 3, 2007
AlterNet: Hysterical Western Media Hype Flimsy Cyber War Against Estonia
By hyping the so-called first massive cyberstrike by a superpower on a tiny, defenseless neighbor, the Western media have played into a sleazy Estonian PR stunt, designed to deflect the world's attention from the country's mistreatment of its Russian-speaking minority.
