Russia, one of the largest remaining markets for natural fur clothing is now requiring that all fur products sold to the consumer contain an embedded microchip. The microchip will contain information on the animal whose fur was used in the making of the garment, the country of origin of the…
In new interview for the Italian publication Corriere della Sera, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov expressed his opinion that the US and NATO are intentionally ratcheting up the level of tension on the Alliance’s eastern frontiers. Referring in his words to a “mythical” eastern menace, NATO is pre-positioning heavy military…
“Into The Danger Zone” On The Admiral Kuznetsov…
Florence Nightingale and Lord Tennyson are two of many historical personages who have been delegated to the corridors of dusty libraries, both real and virtual, to be visited all too seldom by bleary-eyed graduate students. And yet, had our media been worth but one percent of their overblown self-estimate, these…
The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda is reporting this morning that both Russian land based and sea based anti aircraft forces in the Crimea are now operating in an “enhanced regime”. This report comes on the heels of the closing by the Ukraine yesterday of several large areas of airspace over…
Russian 4th and 8th grade students significantly improved their showing in the just released 2015 TIMSS international math rankings coming in at the seventh place, higher than any non-Asian nation with the exception of Northern Ireland. American students finished far behind in the 14th place, even though per student expenditure…
Ukraine has declared large swaths of airspace forbidden to civilian flight operations, reports the Russian news agency TASS. According to a representative of the Russian civilian aviation authority Rossaviatzia, Mr. Sergey Izvolsky, the restricted areas ĺie over international waters as well as Russian territorial waters to the southwest and southeast…
Putin: I Am Not Your Friend, I Am President Of Russia…
Faced with the possibility of losing his American colonies, King George III of England petitioned Catherine the Great of Russia for 20,000 of her crack troops to help squelch the rebellion. At the end of the 18th century, the Russian army under the command of the undefeated General en Chef…