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Foreign Relations

Why so little internet in Ukraine?

March 11, 2010

Why do only 10% of Ukrainians have internet access when more than 33% of their Belarussian neighbours have access?

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Russian family jump to deaths from Scottish tower block

March 9, 2010

Tragic story of a Russian family that plunged to their deaths from a Glasgow tower block after failing to receive asylum in the UK.

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Doctor Who actor David Tennant to play Craig Murray

February 2, 2010

Former Doctor Who actor David Tennant has just finished recording a radio play based on the autobiography of Craig Murray, the controversial former British ambassador to Uzbekistan.

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Sukhoi Pak-FA T50 (aka Russian Stealth Fighter) makes its first test flight

January 31, 2010

The long awaited 5th generation Russian Stealth Fighter, classified as the Sukhoi Pak-FA T50, flew its first test flight on 29 January 2010.

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Russia Today steals my blog titles :-)

December 20, 2009

How Russia Today steals its titles from blogs. Or, more to the point, steals them from this blog :-)

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Billy Joel’s historic Soviet concert tour

December 1, 2009

1987. Billy Joel becomes the first US rock megastar to tour the Soviet Union.

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snob.ru – Adverts appearing across London

November 18, 2009

Adverts in Russian for online magazine snob.ru are popping up all over London.

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Killer Siberian Chipmunks rampage across Britain!

August 3, 2009

Killer Siberian Chipmunks have escaped from a zoo and are terrorising English housewives and cats.

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A Siberian Tiger in Pakistan?

July 31, 2009

Don’t import a Siberian Tiger to a hot country. Things are bound to go wrong.

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Sukhoi Pak FA concept designs

July 21, 2009

While the airplane geeks among us wait for the first flight of the Sukhoi Pak FA, Russia’s long awaited 5th generation jet fighter, that is supposed to have its first test flight later this year, take a look at these stunning concept designs from Russian industrial design artist Aleksander Dultsev:

The PAK FA is designed to [...]

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Moldovan Protesters Storm Parliament in Orangey, Twittery Revolution

April 7, 2009

A 10,000 strong demonstration by (mostly) pro-Western, pro-Liberal protestors in Moldova has turned into an opportunistic storming of the Parliament building in Chisnau and the whiff of revolution is in the air.
The demonstrators were upset that the Communist Party appear to have just scraped past the 50% required to take complete control of Parliament and [...]

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BBC Russian Service Petition

March 30, 2009

The BBC’s Russian Service, which has been broadcasting since 1946 is about to change dramatically.
Most of the Service’s standalone news bulletins will be cut, as will the ‘Features’ programme – in depth discussions of cultural and political matters.
Opponents argue that the change is short-sighted, and that the weakening of the BBC Russia Service’s editorial line [...]

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Did Putin meet Reagan?

March 17, 2009

Speculation is whizzing around the internet that a photo from the 1980s shows a KGB-era Vladimir Putin standing next to US President Ronald Reagan in Red Square, pretending to be a tourist.
Here’s the picture, discovered in the Reagan archives. Apparently, Putin’s the guy on the left in the stripy t-shirt, camera hanging nonchalantly [...]

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Russian Eurovision – Mamo song creates controversy

March 10, 2009

In a move sure to delight conspiracy theorists and bloggers everywhere, Mamu by Anastasia Prikhodko was picked to represent Russia at this year’s Eurovision.
The controversy?  Well, Prikhodko is Ukrainian, and Mamo is sung partly in Russian and partly in – gasp – Ukrainian. Oh yes, and Prikhodko only entered the Russian qualification contest after she’d [...]

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“We don’t wanna put in” – Georgia’s Eurovision video

February 20, 2009

The Russia-Georgia conflict has moved to the disco dancefloor after Georgia’s decision to pick the none-too-subtle “We don’t wanna put in” as their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Performed by Stephane and 3G, the provocative song will no doubt wind Russia’s Prime Minister no end if it makes it to the final in Moscow this [...]

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