Sunday, June 21, 2009

Gazprom and Dow Expand Emissions Alliance

Black sea region has no alternatives to found the grain pool
"No alternatives," huh? Vlad works fast.

Belarus denies Gazprom debt claims
Belarus denied it had received official notice on late payments from Gazprom as Minsk has paid in full for its natural gas supplies, deputy officials say.
Ask Ukraine how well that's going to work out for y'all.

Georgian officer defects, appears on Moscow radio

Georgia-Russia war: EU blames Saakashvili
EU likes heat in winter.

See?
EU Works to Avert Gas Crisis

Independent newspaper faces closure in Russia


Altai thanks Putin in song
Altai Territory State Philharmonic spokesperson Olga Turchina called the song a “usual anthem about Russia.” The cultural department of the territorial administration noted that it is dedicated to Altai, and not to the prime minister. Nonetheless, there is no doubt about whom Altai is grateful to.
I guess it's only one notch of creepiness below the Obama kid songs, then!


Gazprom clinches Kyrgyz market

Kazakh President Praises New Russian Bloc

Russia-Nigeria nuclear deal to be signed during Medvedev visit
Hmmm... home of MEND.

Saudi King Receives Russian Presidential Envoy
Saudi King Abdullah received a Russian presidential adviser and an official from the country's arms export company in Riyadh Sunday, the Interfax agency reported, citing the Kremlin press service.



Georgian police raid opposition tent camp

Saakashvili: These are Times of Gov't Firmness, Maturity

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Car bomb kills Spanish officer

Diplomats owe UK millions in fines
Hey! US is number one!

Northern Ireland - Roads closed over railway alert

Virulent new strain of anti-Semitism rife in UK, says Chief Rabbi

Europe Looks to Africa for Solar Power
I thought that was evil colonialism. No?

'Obama Is Certainly a European'
Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash discusses the demise of Europe's social democrats, threats to the European Union posed by populist nationalists, the imminent change of government in Great Britain and America's rapid slide to the left.

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3 Oil pipelines in Nigeria attacked, company says

An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo

Canada allows return of terror suspect from Sudan
See, in most stories before he's been simply 'stranded' over there.

Kenya will not sit by as Somalia worsens -minister

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Peru Indians hail 'historic' day

Peru's Indian groups gain strength, push for change


Gunmen in Mexico attack ambulance, killing 1

Mexico deploys 1,500 extra soldiers to border city
A total of 2,500 troops arrived Saturday night in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, Torres said, though about 1,000 of them are relieving soldiers already on duty there.

Drug-related killings in Ciudad Juarez declined to about one per day after the army sent some 5,000 troops there in March, bringing the number of soldiers patrolling the streets to about 7,000.


Haitian TV airs footage of confrontation with UN

Anti-Semitic mob puts swastikas on governor's house in Venezuela

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