Better be careful driving the rented car around:
"Russian drivers ordered to act as roadblock" by Associated Press | March 11, 2010
MOSCOW — Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway — and remain inside — to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors said yesterday.
Drivers who were part of Friday’s incident told Russian television that the suspect’s speeding vehicle broke through their blockade on a major Moscow highway. No one was hurt, but cars were damaged.
I can never see Americans doing that!
Russia’s Investigative Committee, under the prosecutor general’s office, confirmed that police had formed a human shield, and that unspecified action would be taken. The committee could conclude its investigation by asking for criminal charges to be filed.
“We could have been killed,’’ one driver, Stanislav Sutyagin, said in a video posted on YouTube.Don't you want to die for your country and its tyranny lie we do in AmeriKa?
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Related: Russian Bed and Breakfast
Yeah, I guess I will stay the night.
So where does the AmeriKan MSM tour take us, readers?
"From Chechnya, a cautionary tale" by Anna Badkhen | March 11, 2010
GROZNY, Russia
At first glance, Chechnya is a dream come true for any country fighting a prolonged war against Islamic rebels. After 15 years of bloodshed that killed between 130,000 and 300,000 people, Russia declared the war over last April and withdrew most of its troops. Physically, the reconstruction has been meteoric.
Then why have we failed were we are, Amer... oh, right, we are still there and the wars get worse(?).
Much of the Connecticut-sized republic bears no outward sign that there was ever a war....
You could say that about the MSM here for all the coverage the give Chechnya.
This is an opinion piece, not a news page.
But scratch the surface, and Chechnya becomes a cautionary tale, particularly for the US odyssey in Iraq, now almost in its seventh year. A deadly insurgency, which the Kremlin has pronounced all but defeated, perseveres in the mountains that have sheltered rebels for centuries, and is spilling out beyond Chechnya’s borders into other republics of Russia’s North Caucasus.
Oh, BILL CLINTON was using "Al-CIA-Duh" in Chechnya, was he?
Yup, behind the false flag of Muslim fundamentalism you find the face of the AmeriKan CIA!
Yeah, those darn "Al-CIA-Duhs!"
I better be careful traveling around Russia.
The circumstances that fuel the insurgency are familiar to American troops and diplomats stationed in Iraq: a weak, nascent kleptocracy; staggering unemployment; revenge that is easily harvested by the enduring Islamic fundamentalism. Unable to keep the rebels in check, the government — with the tacit support of the Kremlin — carries out arbitrary abductions and summary executions....
You get it?
It's a way to destabilize Russia so you USrael can attack Iran.
And give yourself a treat, Americans: Google Chechnya and go find it on a map.
See which republics are in the proximity?
Hmmmmm.
What else is there to see?
"Some TB cases higher in ex-Soviet states" by Washington Post | March 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in much of the former Soviet Union are three to six times higher than in the rest of the world, according to a report released this week by the World Health Organization....
However, because the surveillance for drug-resistant TB is highly variable around the world, it is impossible to say whether the number of these cases is rising or falling, specialists concluded.
Nevertheless, the problem was found to be widespread.
You know, after the swine flu boondoggle and fibbing, sorry.
When I see the globalist WHO attached to anything now my first question is which plague did they release?
The second is why do they wan to get that needle in our arms?
“What we can say is this is a serious threat to global health, with rich and poor countries, all countries, at risk,’’ said Mario C. Raviglione, head of WHO’s Stop TB Department....
Here we go again!
“We knew that it was serious, but we are reporting increasing levels that we thought were not possible before,’’ said Raviglione. “We are in a situation that is out of control in some places.’’
Then why is it a one-day wonder of a brief?
So sick of these s***ters yelling fire.
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And what is this I come upon?
"In Russia, rallies blast economic policies" by Irina Titova, Associated Press | March 21, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG — Thousands rallied across Russia yesterday to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests.
You mean, like in AmeriKa?
Many participants in the rallies, dubbed the Day of Wrath by the opposition, demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. About 1,000 people rallied in St. Petersburg holding placards saying “Putin’s team must resign!’’
Police did not intervene in the St. Petersburg protest....
The authorities allowed an earlier protest of about 1,000 in another section of the Russian capital to demand a reform of the Russian traffic police, which has been widely criticized for corruption and inefficiency.
Yeah, between that and the protests I'm finding it hard getting around.
An opposition rally in the far eastern port of Vladivostok drew about 1,500 people, and similar protests were to be held in many other cities throughout Russia yesterday.
Sure are noticing these protests, agenda--pushing MSM.
Makes me suspicious of an agenda-pushing stink.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in the Baltic city of Kaliningrad despite an earlier decision by the opposition leaders to cancel the protest. They chanted “Government should resign!’’ and called for the ouster of the provincial governor, the Interfax news agency reported. Police didn’t intervene.
Then they were ordered not to or are in favor of the people.
Related: European Vacation: Globalists Bail on Greek Bailout
Yeah, coverage of those issues and protests fades.
And so did these.
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While I am here I might as well pick up a paper:
"Young Russian places risky bet on struggling French newspaper" by Greg Keller, Associated Press | March 18, 2010
PARIS — A small and shrinking newspaper with roots going back to the French Resistance was reborn yesterday thanks to a risky $68.78 million bet by one of Russia’s most influential tycoons.
France-Soir, the smallest of France’s national news dailies, [and its] relaunch [are] being accompanied by a lavish $27.46 million publicity blitz in an attempt to convince readers that the once nearly bankrupt tabloid again merits a spot on Paris newsstands alongside rivals like Le Parisien, Le Monde, and Le Figaro.
Alexander Pugachyov, a 25-year-old whose father Sergey is a close friend of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and considered one of the most influential of Russia’s billionaire oligarchs, bought France-Soir last year and has since gone about expanding the newsroom from about 40 journalists to about 100, a spokeswoman for the paper said....
I'll bet it is a LOT BETTER PAPER than the Zionist slop we are served here!
And looks like some of you AmeriKan reporters may be able to get work -- OVER THERE!
Very little is known about the younger Pugachyov, other than the fact that he was raised in Monaco and has no previous experience running a newspaper.
That might be a good thing; the ones who "know how to do it" over here are losing money and revenue all the time.
He does, however, have a French passport, something his father doesn’t. That allowed the Pugachyovs to get around a French law limiting foreign ownership of media companies.
Yeah, yeah, everyone knows the system serves the elite and they can buy their way around anything.
The elder Pugachyov made his fortune in banking in the early 1990s.
Uh-oh!
He owns two of the largest military and civil shipbuilding yards in Saint Petersburg.
Smells like connections.
It is the SAME EVERYWHERE, isn't it?
Ongoing exclusive talks between Paris and Moscow toward the possible sale of four French warships could benefit the Pugachyovs, as the ships could be built in his shipyard, according to Russia specialist Arnaud Dubien of the IRIS think tank....
The situation recalls the purchase last year of London’s venerable but money-losing paper The Evening Standard by another Russian tycoon, former KGB-agent Alexander Lebedev....
Russians giving English their news?
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