Russian news

[lordtiberius]

The Ruble is rebounding

[Photo Guy]

http://www.interpretermag.com/ten-films-moscow-wont-let-russians-see-and-why-russians-will-as-a-result/

A fantastic link like that, is what makes Boethius so admirable.

[Muzh]

The Ruble is rebounding

It is still a third-world economy.

[2tallbill]

Nitwit Obama downplays Russia S-300 supply to Iran, ‘jaws drop’ in Israel
[note 2tallbill added Nitwit to Obama's name]

US President Barack Obama has admitted he was “surprised” that Moscow held back resumption of S-300 supplies to Iran for so long. Some Israeli officials are reportedly saying the prospect of derailing the Iran nuclear talks is now zero.



After President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on S-300 supply to Iran last Monday, Obama made his first official comment on Friday. He downplayed the significance of the deal, which gives advanced air defense missiles systems to Israel’s archrival in the region.



“I’m frankly surprised that it [the ban on S-300 deliveries to Iran] held this long, given that they were not prohibited by [UN Security Council] sanctions from selling these defensive weapons,” Obama said on Friday at a news conference in the White House, after talks with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Obama recalled that Moscow held off the deal for six years at America's request.



"This is actually a sale that was slated to happen in 2009, when I first met with then-Prime Minister [Vladimir] Putin. They actually stopped the sale, paused or suspended the sale, at our request," Obama said.

The $800-million contract signed between Moscow and Tehran in 2007 to supply five S-300 squadrons was put on hold in 2009, and terminated altogether after the UN imposed sanctions on Iran in 2010.

[lordtiberius]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/world/europe/russian-workers-take-aim-at-putin-as-economy-exacts-its-toll.html?referrer=


I am sure Putin will manage somehow.

[AkMike]

State Department won’t rule out $50B ‘signing bonus’ for Iran

The State Department on Monday would not rule out giving Iran up to $50 billion as a so-called "signing bonus" for agreeing to a nuclear deal later this year, according to comments made to journalists following reports that the Obama administration had formulated a plan to release tens of billions of frozen Iranian funds.

Experts have said this multi-billion dollar "signing bonus" option, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, could be the largest cash infusion to a terror-backing regime in recent memory.

A cash release of $30 to $50 billion upon reaching a final nuclear agreement would come in addition to the more than $11 billion in unfrozen assets that Iran will already have received under an interim nuclear accord reached in 2013.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/21/state-department-wont-rule-out-50b-signing-bonus-for-iran/

[2tallbill]

S300 barely takes off before plunging back to the ground

Embarrassing footage has emerged of a missile launch going spectacularly wrong in Russia.
The minute-long clip shows the S300 rocket barely managing to take off before plummeting back down to earth.

A small thud can be heard and bits of debris fly off as the weapon makes a feeble attempt to launch at the military base in an unknown part of Russia.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050344/What-goes-come-Russian-army-s-rocket-launch-test-goes-terribly-wrong-missile-drops-straight-explodes-them.html#ixzz3Y3wh6sp2

[2tallbill]

Russia pulls Hollywood film set in Stalin era


Trailer for Child 44





http://news.yahoo.com/russia-pulls-hollywood-film-set-stalin-era-distorting-152523320.html

[2tallbill]

Japan jets scramble at Cold-War levels as Chinese and Russian incursions increase


Japanese F-15 Fighter Jet



http://news.yahoo.com/japan-jets-scramble-cold-war-levels-chinese-russian-084627854.html

[2tallbill]

Top Spy: Hillary's Emails 'Likely' Hacked by China, Russia, Iran
And 'potentially the North Koreans'



http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/top-spy-hillarys-emails-likely-hacked-china-russia-iran_911707.html

[2tallbill]

Russia cuts space funding as economic crisis bites



By Jack Stubbs

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is cutting spending on its space program by more than a third over the next 10 years because of the country's economic crisis, forcing it to scrap plans to develop a super-heavy launch rocket.

Space exploration is a subject of national pride in Russia, rooted in the Cold War "space race" with the United States that saw Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin become the first man in orbit. The collapse of the Soviet Union starved the program of funds, but President Vladimir Putin has nurtured plans for a revival.

Russia is planning to develop its own space station by 2023 but economic constraints are growing.

A spokesman for the Roscosmos federal space agency said planned spending would be reduced by 35 percent to 2 trillion rubles ($37.76 billion), a cut of 850 billion rubles.

The Russian government has trimmed spending plans in most economic sectors as the country heads towards recession, hit by Western economic sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine and a fall in the global price of oil, its main export item.

There is more read all about it here
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-cuts-space-funding-economic-crisis-bites-161712359--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBT.CA7jdV9ZsAWQZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzaXNhN3U0BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDU01FOTA2XzEEc2VjA3Nj

[2tallbill]

U2's Father-Son Album Cover Promotes Homosexuality, Says Russian Lawmaker

A Russian legislator has accused Apple and the band U2 of violating the Russian law "against gay propaganda among minors"

read all about it here

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6553076/russia-u2-album-cover-apple-homosexuality-laws?mobile_redirection=false

[fathertime]

It appears Russia has rebounded enough to pledge 18 billion to the BRICS eventual bank which is being set up to rival the Western banking and the constant threat of financial war.  Wise move. 


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/russia-signs-up-to-100-billion-brics-fund-to-rival-imf/articleshow/47135468.cms


http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-russia-signs-up-to-100-bn-brics-fund-to-rival-imf-2015-5


Fathertime! 

[Doll]

Guys, this is the newest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29k_T_o9To&feature=youtu.be

[Doll]

The song is not new, but video is updated
 

Nobody has defeated this country.

[sleepycat]

Nobody has defeated this country.

You forgot about the Mongols in the 13th century?

 

[Boethius]

Or the Livonian War, the Polish-Muscovite War, the Ingrian War, the Smolensk War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Finnish Civil War and Baltic Civil Wars, the Polish-Soviet War in 1919-1921, or of course, Afghanistan.

[Larry1]

Nobody has defeated this country.

You forgot about the Mongols in the 13th century?

 

Or the Livonian War, the Polish-Muscovite War, the Ingrian War, the Smolensk War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Finnish Civil War and Baltic Civil Wars, the Polish-Soviet War in 1919-1921, or of course, Afghanistan.

Also the first world war. The allied powers eventually won the war but only after Russia was defeated and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, giving away huge amounts of territory.

[BillyB]

Nobody has defeated this country.

What are the history books teaching Russian kids these days? Who lost the Cold War? How's the USSR doing these days?

[jone]

I thought the Russians were particularly stellar in WWI.  It was the returning officers and enlisted men who, disappointed with the leadership, helped touch off the fall of the Tzar.  After all, it was Nicholas' decision to go to the front to personally lead his troops in battle that allowed the expanded influence of Rasputin.

(Larry, we must think alike, because WWI was the first thing that came to mind for me.)

I was also thinking about the afghan war and the possible impact it had on the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.

[AkMike]

Either Doll wasn't paying attention to their history when she was in school,  OR she was taught from the revised edition.   

[sleepycat]

Nobody has defeated this country.

Hey Doll!

Now that members of RWD have been kind enough to give you some free history lessons...
Would you like to come back and modify your blatantly incorrect statement?

 

[JayH]

Hey Doll!

Now that members of RWD have been kind enough to give you some free history lessons...
Would you like to come back and modify your blatantly incorrect statement?

 

''

It is not what Putins 2015 history books say-- so surely it is western propaganda?

[Steamer]

I liked the videos Doll.

[jone]

Actually, the videos are kinda fun. 

Reminds me of the Patriotic videos we would sometimes see in school but are now banned by Obama as being too pro-American.