Part one can be found here.
Abroad
Huge corporatocracies control our governments and shadowy agents work against the interest of global peace, international law, and environmental sustainability. In fact, never has it been more apparent that democracy is just an illusion and that all political parties operate within the same narrow superstructure. In the last decade - […]
In the early hours of morning on April 26 1986, a huge explosion rocked the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, in Ukraine - then part of the Soviet Union.
A steam explosion in reactor number 4 had caused a nuclear meltdown leading to the worst accident in the history of nuclear energy. Wind carried the […]
Source: Making a Moscow meal of it
I wouldn’t be getting too ahead of myself, but Russian officials are keen to express that they are winning their War on Terror, as violence in Chechnya, its want-a-way republic, appears to be subsiding.
Chechnya, situated on Russia’s South East fringe among the Northern Caucasus Mountains, has been a thorn in the side of the […]
So Manchester is going to be the home of the Government’s Super Casino.
The Casino Advisory Panel has decided, much we assume to the chagrin of Precott’s buddy Philip Anschutz, that Manchester is a more worthy locale for the leviathan entertainment complex than Blackpool or The Dome.
This is a decision as surprising as London […]
In what can only be described as a brilliant publicity stunt; two bikini-clad animal rights protesters campaigned outside a Moscow branch of KFC, to vent their fury at the treatment of birds at KFC supplying farms. MOSNEWS has the story: -
More than 850 million birds are annually slaughtered at the KFC suppliers’ poultry farms […]
Szwagier has an interesting post on the Martial Law that was imposed to put down ‘Solidarity’, twenty five years ago.
RMJM, the British architects who were earlier this year given the green-light for the Moscow City Palace, above, have won another high profile contract in the Russian capital: The new Gazprom headquarters. It seems British design still leads the way. From The FT: -
The contest for the Gazprom contract was controversial, in part […]
I was up until just after three watching the cricket from Australia. tyger Jnr. then decided this morning that I probably wanted to get up before seven… I didn’t, and I wasn’t best pleased. Anyhoo, I’ve just awoken from an afternoon snooze and now I have to prepare dinner. Salmon baked in […]
My brief Baltic post has attracted some very interesting comments, so I wondered if readers would be interested in an excellent entry over on The Poor Mouth blog. jams o donnell has a cracking blog, which is worth bookmarking.
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In news that conveys perfectly the ideological emptiness of Realpolitik, declassified Moscow documents, now shed light on London and Washington’s apparent acquiescence to the Soviet annexation of the Baltic, prior to the German attack on the USSR.
This will be embarrassing for the British and American governments, who portrayed such solidarity with the people of Eastern […]
…Vladimir Putin, in the FT, promises Europe they have nothing to fear from Russia: -
Russia is closely watching the EU’s evolution, not least because the pace of development of our relations and their future depend largely on changes in the EU. The Union could remain a predominantly intergovernmental association or acquire supranational functions. Russia wants […]
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, resides in a Siberian prison having been jailed for tax evasion and fraud. Khodorkovsky was the owner of the huge oil conglomerate Yukos, and was a political rival of Vladimir Putin. In this week’s edition of The Economist (subs req), Khodorkovsky has warned of the emerging world order and the “Sinification” […]
Regular reader Richard Symonds emailed me this very interesting story from the always-excellent Asia Times. It seems that Russia is concerned about Bush’s nomination of Robert Gates as the new Secretary of Defence. Gates, it seems, was very hawkish towards Gorbachev’s attempts to reform the USSR (as were many Russians, if the truth […]
