A gas mask near a doll at one of the kindergartens of ghost city of Pripyat, near Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant.
Diesel Civil Trust
Just how tough is Gazprom? As the world’s biggest supplier of natural gas, the Russian company has a reputation for hard-nosed bargaining. So when John Hattenberger, chief of the company’s new U.S. operation, hired George Thorogood and The Destroyers to play at a party marking the opening of Gazprom’s Houston office, he insisted Thorogood leave his Epiphone guitar after the show. “That was clause 19 of the contract,” Hattenberger jokes. Today the autographed instrument hangs above Gazprom’s trading floor.
Via “BLH’s Tour of Chernobyl”, GRcade:
We’re directly in front of the sarcophagus now. The Geiger counter is going mental. It’s getting unnerving at this stage. Stand here for too long, and you’ll be going home with a healthy green glow. Some dumb-ass takes off his hat and puts it on the ground while he poses for a picture, Yuri almost kills him. “DON’T PUT STUFF ON THE GROUND!!! Dumb-ass.”
U.S. Navy missile that cruises hundreds of miles over land to blow up buildings is being redesigned in Tucson to chase down moving targets.
On August 13th the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Chicago-based Boeing International announced a test of their joint Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system, which “successfully tracked and hit the mark earlier this month during its first in-flight test against an instrumented target missile.”
Unknown photographer. ‘Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the rifle named after him, rests in the house of his niece in his native village Kurya in Russia’s Altai region, as he visits it September 16, 2007’
The US and Russia are digging in for a fight over American plans for missile defence bases in eastern Europe in spite of efforts by both sides to create a positive atmosphere before next week’s summit between Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.
Soviet Global Invasion Routes recently “found” from a 1987 Department of Defense study. Craze.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should expand the basket of Special Drawing Rights to include the Chinese yuan, commodity currencies and gold, a senior Kremlin official said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW — Russia’s stock market is up about 80 percent this spring, a bounce that is astonishing even by the standards of recent recoveries in other emerging markets.
It is time to seriously contemplate World War III. The most important elements are already in place. Just as so many experts on the Caucasus have predicted, the region has become a power keg and the main source of great-power rivalry.
Russia raised the prospect of war in the Arctic yesterday as nations struggle for control of the world’s dwindling energy reserves.
NATO’s continued expansion into historically (since 1945) Warsaw Pact territory is creating new East–West tension.
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