At the current dollar-ruble exchange rate of 23.5:1, 7,000 rubles amounts to $297.87. That’s the average monthly wage of a petrochemical worker in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, just west of the Urals on the border of Siberia. The major...

Meet Oleg Kozlovsky. As pictured, he’s just emerged from 13 days in Russian prison. Oleg is the leader of a protest movement called Oborona (it means “Defense” in Russian) and he was arrested on March 6th for doing nothing more than...

“The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” – Princess Leia, “Star Wars IV: A New Hope“ Reuters reports that Russian “prime minister” and “former...

It isn’t only fanatical extremist rulers like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran who deny the holocausts of World War II. G-8 member Russia is doing exactly the same thing. A May 15th story in the Moscow Times about the repugnant parade of Soviet...

It’s necessary now to put both the word “former” and the word “president” in quotation marks when referring to Vladimir Putin. He stands accused of rigging his elections (both by purging the ballot form and stuffing the...

With every day that passes, it becomes more and more difficult to understand why Russians hold their “former president” Vladimir Putin [see note below for an explanation of the quotation marks] in such high esteem. On the foreign policy...

There are some people who are so repugnant that not even they themselves can listen to their own discourse. The “president” of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is one of them. Russia’s Vladimir Putin, shown above holding hands with...

In the lead-up to Russia’s comical-yet-obscene parade of obsolete, creaking Soviet-made military hardware through Red Square last week, the dictator Vladimir Putin declared that his nation would soon surpass the United Kingdom in terms of GDP. ...

To prevent him from participating in the formation of a shadow parliament, the Kremlin has once again arrested dissident leader Oleg Kozlovsky.

The New York Times reports that casualties in the Myanmar typhoon, originally reported as being in the hundreds by the psychopathic military junta that rules the country, will likely top a ghastly 100,000. The horrifying scene on the ground is shown...