Tag Archive | "Russia"
Posted on 18 May 2013. Tags: Amy's Baking Company, anti-muslim, assassinated, Bashar al-Assad, Department of Labor, DPRK, Golden Dawn, Greece, independence, Karachi, Lebanese honor killing, meteor smashes into moon, missile launch, North Korea, Pakistan politician, Runaway car in Virginia, Russia, Somaliland, Syria, warships, Zahra Shahid Hussain
North Korea Launches Three Short-Range Missiles Somaliland Marks 22 Years of Independence Meteor Smashes Into Earth’s Moon Greece’s Golden Dawn Makes Genocidal Anti-Muslim Statements Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad Will Not Step Down, Grants Rare Television Interview Russia Deploys 12 Warships to Syria Pakistan Female Politician Zahra Shahid Hussain Assassinated in Karachi Lebanese Man Murders Sister [...]
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Posted on 17 May 2013. Tags: arms sales, Bashar al-Assad, Bill Gates, draft, fascism, Golden Dawn, Google tax evasion, Greek Parliament, Hitchhiker Kai, Hitler, international outrage, Internet star, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Kentucky, Monsanto Protection Act Repeal, Murder, murder suspect, New Jersey, Public Accounts Committee, Russia, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Town outcast, UK, Ultra Orthodox Jews, United Kingdom, World's Richest Man 2013
Greek Golden Dawn MP Shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ During Parliamentary Session Russia Confused About International Outrage Over Syrian Arms Sales UK Public Accounts Committee Chairperson Margaret Hodges Tells Google: ‘You Do Evil’ in Underpaying Taxes Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Protest Israeli Defense Ministry Plans to Draft Them Bashar Al-Assad Winning in Syrian Civil War Internet Sensation, [...]
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Posted on 04 February 2013. Tags: 2009, 2010, 2016, 2018, Asia, East Asia, failed attempts, failed rockets, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Korea, Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1, KSLV-1, Lee Ju-ho, Naro, Republic of Korea, ROK, Russia, South Korea, Space Program, successful launch
South Korea successfully launched its first-ever space rocket, the Naro, according to Lee Ju-ho, minister of education, science and technology. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute announced the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) – or Naro – deployed its payload, the Science and Technology Satellite-2C and placed it into orbit above the Earth. South Korea’s 2009 and [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2013. Tags: 70th anniversary, anniversary, Battle of Stalingrad, CCCP, de-Stalinization, Europe, German, Germany, Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev, Nazis, Red Army, renaming, Russia, Russian history, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Volgograd, World War II
The Russian metropolis of Volgograd resumed its Soviet World War II-era name of Stalingrad on Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The name change will be accompanied by concerts, military parades, and attended by President Vladimir Putin. The city was initially named Stalingrad in 1925 after the Soviet leader [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2013. Tags: Asia, Beijing, Chinese Economic Bubble, December 2012 rocket tests, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, East Asia, Glyn Davies, Korea, Korean Peninsula, National Defense Commission, North Korea, People's Republic of China, PRC, Russia, Sanctions, South Korea, special envoy for policy on North Korea, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States, UNSC Resolution 2087, US, Washington
Pyongyang may have alienated its strongest regional ally with its announcement of further nuclear tests, specifically directed at its avowed enemy the United States. An announcement by Glyn Davies, Washington’s special envoy for policy on North Korea, declared that a ‘strong consensus’ was reached with his PRC counterparts. In a meeting Friday, January 25 [...]
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Posted on 22 January 2013. Tags: Asia, Eruption, footage, Kamchatka, Kamchatka peninsula, Kizimen, Plosky Talbachek, Russia, Russian Federation, Shiveluch, Volcano, volcanoes
Gigantic Russian volcanoes Shiveluch, Kizimen, and Plosky Talbachek have erupted simultaneously, spewing ash into the air and causing earthquakes all around the area of the volcanoes. The largest of the volcanoes, Shiveluch, stands at 3,283 meters. The video above is from Shiveluch’s eruption in June of 2011. [RT.com]
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Posted on 22 January 2013. Tags: American hegemony, anti-Japanese, Asia, China, China National Defense University, communists, Diaoyu Islands, diplomatic solution, dispute, East Asia, Japan, natural gas reserves, People's Liberation Army, People's Republic of China, PRC, Russia, Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu, Senkaku Islands, Soviet, Territorial Dispute, United States, US
China’s National Defense University Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu warns Australia not to dance with the ‘tiger’ (US) and the ‘wolf’ (Japan), raises the possibility of a nuclear attack on Japan. Diplomats are increasingly hoping for an eleventh hour miracle in the talks to resolve the ongoing dispute between two of East Asia’s greatest powers, the [...]
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Posted on 21 January 2013. Tags: anti-access, area-denial, arms trade, Asia, ballistic missile, Bomber, bomber fleet, China, Cold War, demonstration video, East Asia, H-10 bomber, Military Power, People's Repulic of China, PLA H-10 bomber, PRC, Radugha Kh-22, Russia, Russian arms, Russian bomber, Russian Federation, Russian weapons, South China Sea, Soviet weapons, stealth bomber, Tupolev, Tupolev Tu-22M3, United States Navy, USN
A Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber fleet is advanced enough to take on the best of the United States Navy in China’s bid to grow its military might. The People’s Liberation Army has reportedly purchased $1.5 billion worth of Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber aircraft from Russia. When deployed by the PLA the aircraft will be known as the [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2013. Tags: 2035, Asia, business and finance, China, China National Petroleum Corporation, Chinese oil consumption, CNPC, international business, Iraq, Iraqi oil fields, Iraqi Oil Ministry, Lukoil, Malaysia, Middle East, Norway, Oil industry, Oil Ministry of Iraq, People's Republic of China, PRC, Russia, SOE, Staatoil, state owned enterprise, West Qurna 1 Field, West Qurna 2 Field
Current CNPC holdings in Iraq include three fields in the south producing more than 1.4 million barrels of oil per day. The largest foreign players in Iraq’s emerging oil industry are China and Malaysia. China National Petroleum Corporation has sought to expand its presence by acquiring the West Qurna 1 Field which holds reserves estimated to be [...]
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Posted on 16 January 2013. Tags: 2014 Winter Olympics, Aslan Usoyan, assassin, assassination, black market, Central Moscow, Europe, Gorbachev, Gorbachev era, Grandpa Khasan, Karetny Dvor, mafia, Moscow, organized crime, protection racket, Russia, Russian Federation, Russian Investigative Committee, Russian mafia, sniper, Sochi, Soviet Union, Usoyan
Russian mafia boss Aslan Usoyan, a 75-year-old gangster nicknamed Grandpa Khasan, was shot in the head by a sniper atop the sixth floor of an adjacent building according to a Russian Investigative Committee report. Usoyan later died at a hospital, leaving his organization leaderless, leading law-enforcement officials to fear for the outbreak of a violent [...]
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