By now, we all know (or should know) about the global problems the advanced world has with Iran. Recently, further sanctions were placed on that country because they are trying to build nuclear weapons and are evading international pressure to stop. The sanctions that have been recently passed by the UN Security Council, plus some unilateral [...]
On Thursday, the new Russian fighter jet called the T-50 performed a test flight (not the first one) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was on hand and even sat in the cockpit of the aircraft. This plane is said to be the first warplane Russia has made since the Soviet Union collapsed about 20 years ago. The T-50 [...]
For people in Russia, May 9th is an important date on the calendar. It is Victory Day, the day that Nazi Germany capitulated to the then Soviet Union. It is celebrated every year in Russia and for the last two years Vladimir Putin has re-started the Soviet era tradition of parading tanks, missiles and low [...]
On Thursday, U.S. President Obama announced his vision for NASA for the next 25+ years. His plan includes the development of a spacecraft capable of sending astronauts in to deep space and landing on an asteroid and eventually on Mars. This is very exciting and although it is many years away, it will be interesting to [...]
Before I begin, this post is totally unrelated to today’s terrorist attacks in Moscow as this article was partly written before those events.
In an effort to give a kick in the behind to the Russian economy, President Dmitry Medvedev is trying something different from the basic government spending and tax cuts. Russia has decided to [...]
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games are now behind us and it’s time to see where Canada stands among its international peers. Canada hopes that these Olympics have helped sell the country’s culture, people and potential to other countries in the world in many ways. If a country has a more positive impression about Canada now, [...]
We live in a world that is quite complex with a lot of moving parts. The global economy is a very large machine that touches almost every corner of the globe in some way. However, this constant moving and trading of the global economy and thus, our ways of life have some very fragile points. I [...]
Ukraine had an election about two weeks ago and now it appears as though the losing candidate has agreed to concede defeat to the winner, Viktor Yanukovych. If his name sounds familiar it is because he is the same candidate that lost in 2004 to the “Orange Revolution” candidate, Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych is set to [...]
As reported by Reuters recently, news out of Russia emerged about Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov looking to form a bank along with a few other Russian billionaires and pool their money in order to take advantage of (mostly) Russian banks and other large companies who are in desperate need of financing. I find this [...]
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