Indian Navy to induct Mig-29K fighter jets
Hindustan Times
The Russians have now upped the price to between $2.2 billion and $2.9 billion and negotiations are currently under way. The navy will eventually be getting 12 MiG-29K single-seater aircraft and four MiG-29KUB twin-seat trainer aircraft, so...
NYC fire in immigrant housing kills at least 5
AP via Yahoo! News
Fire engulfed a building housing Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn on Saturday, collapsing part of the roof, trapping residents and killing at least five people, authorities said.
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Asbury Park Press
Monmouth University's Spring 2010 Provost Film Series focuses on the turbulent lives and chancing identity of Russians in Moscow during the past four decades. Admission is free and the screenings, taking place in Pollak Theatre in West Long...
Inspired to Pick Up Where Others Left Off for Holocaust Survivors
New York Times
Yanina Karlinsky and Irina Golub, business partners and friends from Belarus, have been soliciting clients of their accounting firm to raise money for the Ivker Fund.
Russian drinks company plans Stalin soft drinks 俄飲料商計畫推出史達林飲料
Taipei Times
The face of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will adorn bottles of a soft drink to go on sale next month in Russia, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.
NYC fire kills 5, investigated as possible arson
KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul
A fire that tore through a Brooklyn building that housed mostly Guatemalan immigrants and killed at least five people on Saturday may have been intentionally set
The People's Olympics: Screech, snowballs --
Vancouver Sun
We regret to inform you that despite a visit Thursday to their pavilion, and an unanswered e-mail sent to authorities overseas in an attempt to clarify the situation, we have been unable to verify the persistent rumour that the Russians wil...
Russians clean up at Europeans
CTV Olympics
But with an array of mistakes, Kostner hardly figures in the Winter Olympics picture for the women's event next month in Vancouver. Kostner fell on a triple loop and popped a triple flip into a single. She landed a triple flip - triple toe ...
The Russians who skated into a minefield
Daily Telegraph
A couple of months ago, while visiting the West Country with some fellow urbanites, my husband and I were invited to attend a fancy-dress "Rasta Night" at the village pub. At first, we thought perhaps the landlord was gently poking fun at u...
On Thin Ice: Two Russians Skate Off the Reservation
Wall Street Journal
Russian figure-skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, who have been favorites to win gold medals at next month's Vancouver Olympics, thought they had found an admirably multicultural theme for their ice-dancing routine—an homage to abor...
Punters face long trip to remote Russian casino
The New Zealand Herald
Azov City Half a year after Russia closed all of it's gambling casinos and slot-machine halls, the first new casino opened yesterday under a plan to limit legalised gambling to four comparatively remote areas.
Chemical Warfare
Strategy Page
January 30, 2010: For the first time since 1995, the Russian population has increased. It went up about 20,000, to 141.9 million. The growth was caused by a 4 percent decline in death rates, and more immigration (mostly ethnic Russians comi...
Miracles brighten prospects for reunion
Kansas City Star
Our last night we’d camped on the shore of the polar sea, roasting potatoes in the fire, talking, drinking a little of that clear fluid the Russians make so well, not wanting our adventure together to end. At some point Volodya, the younges...
