Source-Voltairenet.org: The Zionist War against Putin and Russia
Of course one cannot rule out the possibility that both these recent incidents were not "accidents"....
Source-AP News.com
Russia asks if US radar ruined space probe
By SOFIA JAVED, Assocated Press – 4 days ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched.
NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the U.S. space agency was not using the military radar equipment in question at the time of the Russian equipment failure, but instead was using radar in the Mojave desert in the western United States and in Puerto Rico.
Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Yury Koptev, former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, as saying investigators will conduct tests to check if U.S. radar emissions could have impacted the Phobos-Ground space probe, which was stuck in Earth's orbit for two months before crashing down near Chile and Brazil.
"The results of the experiment will allow us to prove or dismiss the possibility of the radar's impact," said Koptev, who is heading the government commission charged with investigating causes of the probe's failure.
U.S. experts suggested that the Russians should look for causes of the failure at home.
"The Russian Space Agency would do themselves and the future of Russian planetary exploration some good to look inside the project and the agency to find the cause of the Phobos-Ground mishap," said Alan Stern, former associate administrator for science at NASA and now director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida.
The current Roscosmos head, Vladimir Popovkin, has said the craft's malfunction could have been caused by foreign interference. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin acknowledged U.S. radar interference as a possible cause but said it was too early to make any conclusions and suggested the problem could be the spacecraft itself.
"Practially all disruptions are due to flaws in the technologies manufactured 12 to 13 years ago," he said.
Other space experts said the possibility of U.S. interference should be considered only after investigating all other possible causes.
Alexander Zakharov, a specialist at the Space Research Institute, which developed the Phobos-Ground, called the suggestion "contrived" and doubted the United States has radar powerful enough to interfere with a spacecraft at an altitude of around 200 kilometers (124 miles).
"You can come up with a lot of exotic reasons," Zakharov told RIA Novosti. "But first you need to look at the apparatus itself, and there is a problem there."
The Phobos-Ground fell to Earth on Sunday in the vicinity of Chile and Brazil, but no confirmed impact sites have been reported.
The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by its crash were minimal because the toxic rocket fuel on board and most of the craft's structure would burn up in the atmosphere high above the ground anyway.
The Phobos-Ground probe was designed to travel to one of Mars' twin moons, Phobos, land on it, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth in 2014 in one of the most daunting interplanetary missions ever. It got stranded in Earth's orbit after its Nov. 9 launch, and efforts by Russian and European Space Agency experts to bring it back to life failed.
Phobos-Ground was Russia's most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. Its mission to the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon was to give scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.
Russia's space chief has acknowledged the Phobos-Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.
Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
Of course one cannot rule out the possibility that both these recent incidents were not "accidents"....
Source-AP News.com
Russia asks if US radar ruined space probe
By SOFIA JAVED, Assocated Press – 4 days ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched.
NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the U.S. space agency was not using the military radar equipment in question at the time of the Russian equipment failure, but instead was using radar in the Mojave desert in the western United States and in Puerto Rico.
Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Yury Koptev, former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, as saying investigators will conduct tests to check if U.S. radar emissions could have impacted the Phobos-Ground space probe, which was stuck in Earth's orbit for two months before crashing down near Chile and Brazil.
"The results of the experiment will allow us to prove or dismiss the possibility of the radar's impact," said Koptev, who is heading the government commission charged with investigating causes of the probe's failure.
U.S. experts suggested that the Russians should look for causes of the failure at home.
"The Russian Space Agency would do themselves and the future of Russian planetary exploration some good to look inside the project and the agency to find the cause of the Phobos-Ground mishap," said Alan Stern, former associate administrator for science at NASA and now director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida.
The current Roscosmos head, Vladimir Popovkin, has said the craft's malfunction could have been caused by foreign interference. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin acknowledged U.S. radar interference as a possible cause but said it was too early to make any conclusions and suggested the problem could be the spacecraft itself.
"Practially all disruptions are due to flaws in the technologies manufactured 12 to 13 years ago," he said.
Other space experts said the possibility of U.S. interference should be considered only after investigating all other possible causes.
Alexander Zakharov, a specialist at the Space Research Institute, which developed the Phobos-Ground, called the suggestion "contrived" and doubted the United States has radar powerful enough to interfere with a spacecraft at an altitude of around 200 kilometers (124 miles).
"You can come up with a lot of exotic reasons," Zakharov told RIA Novosti. "But first you need to look at the apparatus itself, and there is a problem there."
The Phobos-Ground fell to Earth on Sunday in the vicinity of Chile and Brazil, but no confirmed impact sites have been reported.
The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by its crash were minimal because the toxic rocket fuel on board and most of the craft's structure would burn up in the atmosphere high above the ground anyway.
The Phobos-Ground probe was designed to travel to one of Mars' twin moons, Phobos, land on it, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth in 2014 in one of the most daunting interplanetary missions ever. It got stranded in Earth's orbit after its Nov. 9 launch, and efforts by Russian and European Space Agency experts to bring it back to life failed.
Phobos-Ground was Russia's most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. Its mission to the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon was to give scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.
Russia's space chief has acknowledged the Phobos-Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.
Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
Russia has no other "leaders"???...
IN THE EVENT OF A WORLD WIDE ECONOMIC/OR "OTHER" CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE, IT WILL BE RUSSIA WHICH WILL SURVIVE INTACT. I BELIEVE(BARRING THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY THE WEST) THAT BECAUSE RUSSIA'S PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY ENDURED EVERY CONCIEVABLE MAN MADE "EVIL EVENT" THE POWERS THAT BE CAN THROW AT IT,AND ADD TO THE FACT THEY HAVE A STRONG LEADER,(REGARDLESS OF HIS 'SUPPOSED' CORRUPTION)THAT THEY WILL ENDURE WELL. I MEAN REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE OBAMA OR THE OTHER PUPPETS IN CHARGE IN CASE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY? OF COURSE THAT'S JUST MY OPINION!
IN THE EVENT OF A WORLD WIDE ECONOMIC/OR "OTHER" CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE, IT WILL BE RUSSIA WHICH WILL SURVIVE INTACT. I BELIEVE(BARRING THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY THE WEST) THAT BECAUSE RUSSIA'S PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY ENDURED EVERY CONCIEVABLE MAN MADE "EVIL EVENT" THE POWERS THAT BE CAN THROW AT IT,AND ADD TO THE FACT THEY HAVE A STRONG LEADER,(REGARDLESS OF HIS 'SUPPOSED' CORRUPTION)THAT THEY WILL ENDURE WELL. I MEAN REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE OBAMA OR THE OTHER PUPPETS IN CHARGE IN CASE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY? OF COURSE THAT'S JUST MY OPINION!
Great Brave Russian Vladimir Putin
Source-Encyclopedia World Biography
When Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister of Russia, very little was known about his background. This former Soviet intelligence agent entered politics in the early 1990s and rose rapidly. By August of 1999, ailing President Boris Yeltsin (1931–) appointed him prime minister. When Yeltsin stepped down in December of 1999, Putin became the acting president of Russia, and he was elected president to serve a full term on March 26, 2000.
Early life and education
Vladimir Putin was born on October 1, 1952, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. An only child, his father was a foreman in a metal factory and his mother was a homemaker. Putin lived with his parents in an apartment with two other families. Though religion was not permitted in the Soviet Union, the former country which was made up of Russia and other smaller states, his mother secretly had him baptized as an Orthodox Christian.
Though a small child, Putin could hold
Vladimir Putin
his own in fights thanks to martial arts classes. By the age of sixteen he was a top-ranked expert at sambo, a Russian combination of judo and wrestling. By the time he was a teenager Putin had begun to display the ambition that he later became known for, and he attended a respected high school, School 281, which only accepted students with near-perfect grades. The institution was the only one in Russia to stress chemistry, which was Putin's interest. However, he soon moved toward liberal arts and biology. Putin played handball and worked at the school radio station, where he played music by the Beatles and other Western rock bands. Fascinated with spy movies as a teen, he aspired to work for the KGB, the Russian secret service.
Work in the KGB
At Leningrad State University, Putin graduated from the law department in 1975 but instead of entering the law field right out of school, Putin landed a job with the KGB, the only one in his class of one hundred to be chosen. The branch he was assigned to was responsible for recruiting foreigners who would work to gather information for KGB intelligence.
In the early 1980s Putin met and married his wife, Lyudmila, a former teacher of French and English. In 1985 the KGB sent him to Dresden, East Germany, where he lived undercover as Mr. Adamov, the director of the Soviet-German House of Friendship, a social and cultural club. Putin appeared to genuinely enjoy spending time with Germans, unlike many other KGB agents, and respected the German culture.
Around the time Putin went to East Germany, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–) was beginning to introduce economic and social reforms (improvements). Putin was apparently a firm believer in the changes. In 1989 the Berlin Wall, which stood for nearly forty years separating East from West Germany, was torn down and the two united. Though Putin supposedly had known that this was going to happen, he was disappointed that it occurred amid chaos and that the Soviet leadership had not managed it better.
Russian politics
In 1990 Putin returned to Leningrad and continued his undercover intelligence work for the KGB. In 1991, just as the Soviet Union was beginning to fall apart, Putin left the KGB with the rank of colonel, in order to get involved in politics. Putin went to work for Anatoly Sobchak, the mayor of St. Petersburg, as an aide and in 1994 became deputy mayor.
During Putin's time in city government, he reportedly helped the city build highways, telecommunications, and hotels, all to support foreign investment. Although St. Petersburg never grew to become the financial powerhouse that many had hoped, its fortunes improved as many foreign investors moved in, such as Coca-Cola and Japanese electronics firm NEC.
On to the Kremlin
In 1996, when Sobchak lost his mayoral campaign, Putin was offered a job with the victor, but declined out of loyalty. The next year, he was asked to join President Boris Yeltin's "inner circle" as deputy chief administrator of the Kremlin, the building that houses the Russian government. In March of 1999, he was named secretary of the Security Council, a body that advises the president on matters of foreign policy, national security, and military and law enforcement.
In August of 1999, after Yeltsin had gone through five prime ministers in seventeen months, he appointed Putin, who many thought was not worthy of succeeding the ill president. For one thing, he had little political experience; for another, his appearance and personality seemed boring. However, Putin increased his appeal among citizens for his role in pursuing the war in Chechnya. In addition to blaming various bombings in Moscow and elsewhere on Chechen terrorists, he also used harsh words in criticizing his enemies. Soon, Putin's popularity ratings began to soar.
Acting president of Russia
In December of 1999, Russia held elections for the 450-seat Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament (governing body). Putin's newly-formed Unity Party came in a close second to the Communists in a stunning showing. Though Putin was not a candidate in this election, he became the obvious front-runner in the upcoming presidential race scheduled for June of 2000.
On New Year's Eve in 1999, Yeltsin unexpectedly stepped down as president, naming Putin as acting president. Immediately, Western news media and the U.S. government scrambled to create a profile of the new Russian leader. Due to Putin's secretive background as a KGB agent, there was little information. His history as a spy caused many Westerners and some Russians as well to question whether he should be feared as an enemy of the free world.
In Putin's first speech as acting president, he promised, "Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, the right to private property—these basic principles of a civilized society will be protected," according to a Newsweek report. In addition, Putin removed several of Yeltsin's loyalists and relatives from his cabinet.
Elected President
On March 26, 2000, Russians elected Putin out of a field of eleven candidates. After his election, Putin's first legislative move was to win approval of the Start II arms reduction treaty from the Duma. The deal, which was negotiated seven years earlier, involved decreasing both the Russian and American nuclear buildup by half. Putin's move on this issue was seen as a positive step in his willingness to develop a better relationship with the United States. In addition, one of Putin's earliest moves involved working with a team of economists to develop a plan to improve the country's economy. On May 7, 2000, Putin was officially sworn in as Russia's second president and its first in a free transfer of power in the nation's eleven-hundred-year history.
Putin, a soft-spoken and stone-faced man, keeps his personal life very private. In early 2000, an American publishing company announced that in May it would release an English-language translation of his memoirs, First Person, which was banned from publication in Russia until after the March 26 presidential election.
Putin has made great efforts to improve relations with the remaining world powers. In July 2001, Putin met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin (1926–) and the two signed a "friendship treaty" which called for improving trade between China and Russia and improving relations concerning U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Four months later, Putin visited Washington, D.C. to meet with President George W. Bush (1946–) over the defense system. Although they failed to reach a definite agreement, the two leaders did agree to drastically cut the number of nuclear arms in each country. Early in 2002, Putin traveled to Poland and became the first Russian president since 1993 to make this trip. Representatives of the two countries signed agreements involving business, trade, and transportation.
For More Information
Putin, Vladimir. First Person. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000.
Shields, Charles J. Vladimir Putin. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002.
When Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister of Russia, very little was known about his background. This former Soviet intelligence agent entered politics in the early 1990s and rose rapidly. By August of 1999, ailing President Boris Yeltsin (1931–) appointed him prime minister. When Yeltsin stepped down in December of 1999, Putin became the acting president of Russia, and he was elected president to serve a full term on March 26, 2000.
Early life and education
Vladimir Putin was born on October 1, 1952, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. An only child, his father was a foreman in a metal factory and his mother was a homemaker. Putin lived with his parents in an apartment with two other families. Though religion was not permitted in the Soviet Union, the former country which was made up of Russia and other smaller states, his mother secretly had him baptized as an Orthodox Christian.
Though a small child, Putin could hold
Vladimir Putin
his own in fights thanks to martial arts classes. By the age of sixteen he was a top-ranked expert at sambo, a Russian combination of judo and wrestling. By the time he was a teenager Putin had begun to display the ambition that he later became known for, and he attended a respected high school, School 281, which only accepted students with near-perfect grades. The institution was the only one in Russia to stress chemistry, which was Putin's interest. However, he soon moved toward liberal arts and biology. Putin played handball and worked at the school radio station, where he played music by the Beatles and other Western rock bands. Fascinated with spy movies as a teen, he aspired to work for the KGB, the Russian secret service.
Work in the KGB
At Leningrad State University, Putin graduated from the law department in 1975 but instead of entering the law field right out of school, Putin landed a job with the KGB, the only one in his class of one hundred to be chosen. The branch he was assigned to was responsible for recruiting foreigners who would work to gather information for KGB intelligence.
In the early 1980s Putin met and married his wife, Lyudmila, a former teacher of French and English. In 1985 the KGB sent him to Dresden, East Germany, where he lived undercover as Mr. Adamov, the director of the Soviet-German House of Friendship, a social and cultural club. Putin appeared to genuinely enjoy spending time with Germans, unlike many other KGB agents, and respected the German culture.
Around the time Putin went to East Germany, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–) was beginning to introduce economic and social reforms (improvements). Putin was apparently a firm believer in the changes. In 1989 the Berlin Wall, which stood for nearly forty years separating East from West Germany, was torn down and the two united. Though Putin supposedly had known that this was going to happen, he was disappointed that it occurred amid chaos and that the Soviet leadership had not managed it better.
Russian politics
In 1990 Putin returned to Leningrad and continued his undercover intelligence work for the KGB. In 1991, just as the Soviet Union was beginning to fall apart, Putin left the KGB with the rank of colonel, in order to get involved in politics. Putin went to work for Anatoly Sobchak, the mayor of St. Petersburg, as an aide and in 1994 became deputy mayor.
During Putin's time in city government, he reportedly helped the city build highways, telecommunications, and hotels, all to support foreign investment. Although St. Petersburg never grew to become the financial powerhouse that many had hoped, its fortunes improved as many foreign investors moved in, such as Coca-Cola and Japanese electronics firm NEC.
On to the Kremlin
In 1996, when Sobchak lost his mayoral campaign, Putin was offered a job with the victor, but declined out of loyalty. The next year, he was asked to join President Boris Yeltin's "inner circle" as deputy chief administrator of the Kremlin, the building that houses the Russian government. In March of 1999, he was named secretary of the Security Council, a body that advises the president on matters of foreign policy, national security, and military and law enforcement.
In August of 1999, after Yeltsin had gone through five prime ministers in seventeen months, he appointed Putin, who many thought was not worthy of succeeding the ill president. For one thing, he had little political experience; for another, his appearance and personality seemed boring. However, Putin increased his appeal among citizens for his role in pursuing the war in Chechnya. In addition to blaming various bombings in Moscow and elsewhere on Chechen terrorists, he also used harsh words in criticizing his enemies. Soon, Putin's popularity ratings began to soar.
Acting president of Russia
In December of 1999, Russia held elections for the 450-seat Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament (governing body). Putin's newly-formed Unity Party came in a close second to the Communists in a stunning showing. Though Putin was not a candidate in this election, he became the obvious front-runner in the upcoming presidential race scheduled for June of 2000.
On New Year's Eve in 1999, Yeltsin unexpectedly stepped down as president, naming Putin as acting president. Immediately, Western news media and the U.S. government scrambled to create a profile of the new Russian leader. Due to Putin's secretive background as a KGB agent, there was little information. His history as a spy caused many Westerners and some Russians as well to question whether he should be feared as an enemy of the free world.
In Putin's first speech as acting president, he promised, "Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, the right to private property—these basic principles of a civilized society will be protected," according to a Newsweek report. In addition, Putin removed several of Yeltsin's loyalists and relatives from his cabinet.
Elected President
On March 26, 2000, Russians elected Putin out of a field of eleven candidates. After his election, Putin's first legislative move was to win approval of the Start II arms reduction treaty from the Duma. The deal, which was negotiated seven years earlier, involved decreasing both the Russian and American nuclear buildup by half. Putin's move on this issue was seen as a positive step in his willingness to develop a better relationship with the United States. In addition, one of Putin's earliest moves involved working with a team of economists to develop a plan to improve the country's economy. On May 7, 2000, Putin was officially sworn in as Russia's second president and its first in a free transfer of power in the nation's eleven-hundred-year history.
Putin, a soft-spoken and stone-faced man, keeps his personal life very private. In early 2000, an American publishing company announced that in May it would release an English-language translation of his memoirs, First Person, which was banned from publication in Russia until after the March 26 presidential election.
Putin has made great efforts to improve relations with the remaining world powers. In July 2001, Putin met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin (1926–) and the two signed a "friendship treaty" which called for improving trade between China and Russia and improving relations concerning U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Four months later, Putin visited Washington, D.C. to meet with President George W. Bush (1946–) over the defense system. Although they failed to reach a definite agreement, the two leaders did agree to drastically cut the number of nuclear arms in each country. Early in 2002, Putin traveled to Poland and became the first Russian president since 1993 to make this trip. Representatives of the two countries signed agreements involving business, trade, and transportation.
For More Information
Putin, Vladimir. First Person. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000.
Shields, Charles J. Vladimir Putin. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002.
Source-Pravda.RU: 2012
While many of my predictions were optimistic on the time lines, the overall trends have stayed in the same direct. The main exception were the US/EU-created twitter revolutions in the Arab world, which to tell the truth, I had not predicted, but which do, over all, move us towards the ultimate confrontation that will lead to the destruction of Turkey, the collapse of NATO and the final rise of the Fourth Reich, thus reserving a future battle between are reborn Orthodox Block and the Fourth Reich.
Russia
Russia will more than likely face a mild recession this year, as demand for exports (primarily oil, gas, steel and wood) falls, first due to the US/EU fall and then due to the Chinese hard landing. The Russian economy weathered the over all 2008 Crisis, the start of the Super Depression, quite well, regardless of statistics and returned to strong economic growth the following year. 2011 was characterized by strong growth with many European companies, especially the British and Germans, moving production into Russia, to avoid the insanity of the EU, meet minimum criteria for local production and be in position to survive the EU/US collapses. From Siemens to Microsoft, new facilities are popping up everywhere.
However, the second half of 2011 was also marked by a major assault by the US/UK's Masonic elites upon Russia's stability. As I mention in my article ((article)), the West, knowing it is on the brink of an irreversible collapse, must make sure not to leave the stage for the decade or so it will take to recover, without knocking Russian down too, otherwise, they will face a new order they are not willing to face.
This, in effect, has already plaid itself out and failed, though the US media may continue to hype it and push for a new Cold War, to get the attention of their destitute off of their pathetic plights. The coup failed, though it did, to some degree , rock the boat. On the bright side, the rocking will be used to further needed reforms, as a new excuse exists to move some of the blocks out of the way. In the longer term, it had the effect of bringing nationalist, and thus monarchist elements to a more central position and these seeds will continue to grow until some time, probably within the next 10 years, the monarchy will be reinstated. Of course, this will be even more detrimental to the US Masons, one of the most vile enemies of Christian Monarchy that Satan has even loosened upon the earth. But then again, that is what the term blow back is for.
I also predict that two wars will erupt: more than likely another war with Georgia, early on in the year. The Americans will need something else to push on Russia, now that their pathetic purchased coup has so utterly fallen on its face and their hoax media "coverage" was exposed for the utter spliced rubbish that it is. More than likely, the US/Georgians will use another major occasion, such as a holiday (Pascha) or sporting event, to start their war, for which they have been hyper rearming, on the US dollar, since 2008. It will be another short and bloody failure, again sacrificing several thousand Georgian lives for US propaganda value. Since the Russian international information services have failed to come to western standards, over the past 3 years, it will lead to the same results: victory on the ground, defeat in the opinion/mass media. It will, however, be a major blow to the US bought politicos inside of Russia and will lead to major instability in Georgia.
The main war of the year will come in the summer with Turkey, as I predicted previously. It will be a culmination of Edegan's mad scheming to return the hated and barbaric Ottoman Empire to life and will instead result in the utter destruction of Turkey and the final collapse of the NATO rouge regime.
United States
This year, more then likely, America will transfer fully into a police state dictatorship. Sure, they will still have an "election" but the Republican candidate will be handpicked by the party's elites, to make sure he loses to Obama and that Obama remains in power. By midyear the government will have the right to arrest without warrant or accusation "terrorists" and their "enablers". This will be just in time, as inflation will continue to sky rocket and nations will continue moving away from the dollar. An example of this was the recent announcement from China and Japan that they will no longer use the USD in inter-nation trade, just another blow against the only real export the US has, outside of scrap metal and corn. Several major standoffs and shootouts with groups of sovereignty seekers will occur.
Black and Mexican on White and Asian violence will also escalate, but the partisan federal police will look the other way on the "oppressors" getting theirs.
As the economy continues to fall, as real unemployment, vs the fictional figures, continues to creep towards thirty percent, the public will grow ever more disenchanted and angry. More radical elements in Texas, the old Confederacy, Hawaii, Alaska, Maine and Vermont will call for independence and will be crushed. This will work out as all repressive measures work out, drawing instability underground but it will remain so.
Especially problematic for the US will be returning military, who will face little real employment outside the military.
Equally problematic, will be the collapse of Mexico and the full wash over of the violence into the US.
Mid summer, when the Turkish war begins, the US, leading NATO will charge in. However, strong initial losses coupled with internal unrest, will cause it to pull back, to deal with the internal fractures.
Passports out of the US will also become much harder to get, as brain drain will become a serious issue. 2012 will be the year that many of the brightest will finally throw in the towel and head out, especially after the Nov elections.
Of course, than there's the God factor. God punished the US with the many plagues, but the US elites have continued to practice greater and greater evil while the mindless masses screaming its not our fault (but we're a Republic damn it!) continue to holler and yelp in glee at every new warfootage to entertain them. God gave America 1. Heavy winters, 2. Flooding, 3. Fires, 4. Drought, 5. Hurricane Flooding in the NE, 6. Crop Failures, 7. Earthquakes, 8. Early and heavy blizzards in Oct....eight plagues that have all been ignored. As is the way of God, things will only get worse as His rage grows.
Mexico
I know I have been predicting this for two years now, but the collapse will finally come this year. I am amazed how the Mexican government has been able to hold on, but with even the most prestigious resort areas of Acapulco and Cancun war zones and violence flooding into the capital of Mexico City, the end is neigh. This year alone, over 300 gangland murderers occurred in the capital.
With America pumping weapons, keeping the borders open and thus the drug trade going and allowing a safe place for the cartels to hide and recoop, the collapse of the state, that already holds less then half the country within its grasp, is inevitable.
This violence will spill over into the Gulf, further into Arizona, creating absolute chaos
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in that oblast and into Texas, New Mexico and California.
Brazil
The Brazil carry trade will finally collapse, along with the iron ore trade with China, as China suffers a hard landing. Coupled with a much lower demand for oil and gas, the main economies crash down, Brazil's tens of millions of poor will bring the country and government to a standstill, bringing about civil strife and marshal law. The country will survive, but will exit 2012 in much worse financial shape then it entered.
Argentina
Argentina, having passed an insane "terrorism" bill that labels everyone and anyone who opposes the elected government as terrorists, open for indefinite detention, will face ever growing civil strife and the possibility of civil war. To that end, the government, as every government of its type and as Argentina has done in the past, will seek an external enemy, in this case, the traditional Falkland Islands. That there is great deposits of oil and gas already being exploited will just add to the bonus.
Argentina will launch another invasion and Britain will respond. However, the English navy is a shadow of its former self and it will not have US intelligence on its back. The Obama will be backing the Argentines and will give them vast intelligence which will cause the British to lose a carrier and several other ships. The Falklands will be occupied and the British will be unable to land reinforcements on it. To make sure it controls the islands, there will be a whole scale cleansing of the British population, placed on transports and sent to the UK.
No resolutions will pass in the UN, with the US blocking and calling for "cool" heads, while aiding the Argentines.
Cuba
Fidel will finally meet his maker this year and a nationalist government will seize power. This is not the good news that it would seem to the US, as those very same nationalists will start agitating for the Florida Keys and Miami, both effectively Cuban territories due to the mass migrations over the past 40 years.
Iceland
Iceland will continue to go its own way and will be blocked from European trade, as limited as that will become this year. For that reason, there will be major moves from the Kremlin to align the Icelanders into a Russian alliance. The Icelandic economy will be kept afloat, in large part, by Russian trade and monies, not the first time. While there will be realistic discussions about setting up Russian bases on Iceland, as long as NATO stands, which will be through most of this year, this will only be talk.
Ireland
Ireland, with the final collapse of the present EU system and the reformation and rise of the Fourth Reich, will be forced, by its people, to follow the Icelandic route, casting out the last vestiges of the EU. Economic turmoil will wrap the nation, but its low taxes will remain and several major US corporations, fleeing the Fascist regime in the US, will transfer and reregister in Ireland.
United Kingdom
Chaos, war, collapse and the signs of the return of the British. The whole cycle is in wake for the British, with large doses of pain and equal doses of hope. As reported two days ago, over 40,000 businesses look at shut downs in January alone, after another disastrous Christmas season.
The British will not follow the EU into the Fourth Reich formation, outright, but will hang around on the outskirts for the first half of the year, as the decent begins, unlike Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, the first four that will leave outright.
When the British are defeated in Argentina, there will be massive unrest in the streets. David Cameron's government will be able to hang on, however only by slim margins.
The Islamics, never missing a chance to make enemies, will be out in force mocking the defeated British. This will of course feed into the various right wing nationalists groups.
When the Turkish war explodes, the British will ever willingly to join in behind the Americans, as part of the NATO force. However, after losing several combat ships, they will back out quickly, as internal decent will bring down the government. Right wing Nationalists will grab for power, rallying around the monarchy, specifically the crown princes. The rest of the year will see street riots and battles with various Islamic groups and mass deportations by the new government.
France
France's elections will go as planned, that is, Mary Le Pan will come no where near power, even though she has the majority of popular opinion behind her. The fellow Fourth Reich architect Sarkozy will remain in power, through every dirty trick, which may include the assassination of Mary. France will be a main figure in the Fourth Reich.
She will support the war against Russia, Greece and the Orthodox initially, but at the signal from Germany will pull out, allowing NATO to collapse and driving the last of the US vestiges out of Europe proper.
Germany
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The German elites will continue at the full clip moving their nation into the full Fourth Reich union, regardless of what the people proper feel or want. When the war against Russia and Greece begins, Germany will back it and send some planes, though no ships or ground troops will be supplied. When NATO is full invested, which will not take long, Germany will pull out, along with France, crashing the party.
By the end of the year, the EU will be around in name only and NATO will be a crushed and discredited organization. The Germans will be running the whole thing, through their Belgian puppets.
Spain & Portugal
Spain's economy will continue to implode and so will that of Portugal, neither nation able to control its currency. The war against the Orthodox and the collapse of NATO will cause major governmental turmoil and will crush the present right of center government. By the end of the year, they will eject themselves from the EU, as nationalists come to power. The two will form a free trade zone of their own, as well as continuing to make out reaches to Latin America and North Africa.
Italy
Italy's downward spiral will continue and the NATO war will be a major embarrassment. However, as much as people want to leave the EU, it will not work, as the Brussels controlled government will not leave and Italy will become a second tier state, its finances controlled by Brussels but still not part of the EU "Core" aka Fourth Reich. There will be many civil disturbances throughout the country, especially in the south, which will continue to be flooded by North and Central Africans.
Poland
Poland's alliance with the collapsing US empire will become fanatical. Caught between a resurgent and pissed off Russia and the rebirth of the Fourth Reich. Poland will remain in the EU but will continue to distance itself further and further.
Serbia
By the time the war with Turkey erupts, the Serbian Judases in power will be doing the famous helicopter on the roof run. When the Turkish tanks roll into Greece, the Serbian Radical party will rally the people to them, over throwing the puppet regime. Serbian fighters will already be heading down to fight the Turks, even as the government reorganizes and mobilizes the military.
Only part of the military will head to aid Greece, with the rest heading into Kosovo, over running and destroying the NATO forces in the area, and driving out the Albanian invaders in mass. NATO will pull out to a hostile Croatia, whose own nationalists will be rallying to the threat of the hated Turk.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria's leadership will face a similar problem as Serbia's. When the military is ordered to stay out of the war, as the Turks drive in, there will be a military coup as Orthodox Bulgarians take to the streets in defiance of their bankrupt puppet regime.
Bulgaria will also enter the war. American bases in Bulgaria will be besieged by the locals and the Bulgarian military will place the Americans under arrest, for the duration of the conflict.
Romania
Romania will stay out of the war with Turkey but its leadership will barely hold on to power, as it too is rocked by internal decent. They will then become an ever more fringe player in the "new" EU structure.
The Fourth Reich
The new and revised EU, one of close close and even closer cooperation, that is, one where all the fiscal power and thus all the power of the individual states is controlled by Brussels and thus by Berlin, will finally come into reality. The weaker states on the periphery will either be rejected, ejected or will self eject. The core states will be: Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia (the last 3 for strategic reasons). The dictatorial union of the unified elites will of course be weak, at first. They will effectively gut NATO and fully back their EuroForce. Not all states will leave the EU but those not part of the FR will be a second tier at best and will have strong secessionist views in place.
The ultimate strategy of the FR will be no different than that of the Third Reich, but they will require several years to rebuild their economies and put themselves back on their collective feet, as well as create a real war machine. Of course the FR will still be part of the EU and will use that cover name, adding something to the tune of core states or some such.
Greece
Greece will over throw its government within the first half of the year, by a military coup. They will be the first EU puppet regime running for the roof top helicopters. Greece will equally exit out of the EU and will restart printing of the Drachma. There will be talks about alliances with and the appearance of Russian bases.
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However, before these come to fruition, Greece's alliance with Cyprus and Israel will pull it directly into war with Turkey. The Turks will be fighting a three front war, but a large enough force will drive into Greece. The Greeks will fight as hard as they can but will be overcome. The Turkish assault will stall in Thessaloniki amidst massive street to street fighting and also in the mountains to the north. The northern Greeks will be bolstered by Serbia, Macedonian and Bulgarian volunteers, which will further stall the Turkish drive. NATO and the EU will stay out of the fighting, at this point, calling weakly for all sides to come to terms. The Turks will enter central Greece, though much slower than expected, as their forces will be drawn off by a general Kurdish uprising and continued heavy fighting in northern Israel.
Russia will at first stay neutral, also calling for peace, however, it will cut the Turks off from gas and oil. Russian humanitarian aid will fly into Greece, over Bulgarian airspace, even as the Bulgarian government falls to its own military. After that point, active Russian aid will be drawn in.
Images of dead Orthodox Greeks, from Turkish atrocities, will drive the masses into the streets demanding direct intervention. The UN will be blocked by US/UK/French vetos, even as Russian volunteers start to flood into the Balkans. Russia will start to threaten Turkey and this will quickly escalate into air skirmishes. NATO will come alive, directly threatening Russia to stay out. Russia will, by this point be drawn deeply into the fighting, with Ukraine close at the hip.
The Russian military will attack directly through Georgia, who after four days of resistance, will collapse. Tbilisi will not be besieged by major forces, surrounded and forced into submission, as the bulk of the military will drive into Turkey proper. At this point Armenia will enter the war on Russia's side and Azerbaijan on Turkey's.
NATO will confront Russia in the Black Sea and will suffer a full defeat, cut off from Bulgarian support bases, with only Romania's bases left. These will be degraded by Russian missiles and bombers. NATO ships will be sunk, most being American. NATO fighters will also be confronted at the edge of their operability over the Balkans and the Black Sea. This defeat, and Ukraine's entry into the war on Russia's side, will be used by the Germans as a reason to pull out and thus crush NATO from within.
By the end of the year, the Turks will have been checked in northern Israel, will be facing continual Syrian partisan warfare. They will have lost the eastern half of their country to Armenian, Kurdish forces, while Russia will be driving on them, sitting at the outskirts of Ankara. They will still hold Thessaloniki, but will have withdrawn from central Greece and will be under constant attack from the north by Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian forces. They will also have lost Cyprus by this point to S.Cypriot forces, unable to resupply it due to the other fronts.
The final destruction of Turkey, a Russian landing in Constantinople, as well as the capture of Ankara, will come in the first half of 2013. At this point, Turkey will face full dissolution as a nation, being divided into at least 3 maybe four parts: Greek (Byzentine), Armenian (Trebzon) and Kurdish south and southeast and maybe a smaller Bulgarian zone in the north of Turkey proper as well as a slice of northern Thrace.
Cyprus
Cyprus will ride out the war relatively easily compared to the rest in the area. Cyprus will suffer initial missile and bomber strikes by the Turks, directly on their infrastructure, including civilian zones, and on their gas drilling, shutting it down. However, the Greeks and Israelis will be involved and the Turks will suffer losses of planes needed in Greece and Israel. South Cyprus will instantly launch an assault on N.Cyprus and through hard fighting will drive out the Turks within several months.
Turkey
This year will bring Turkey its last war. Turkey's government will continue to be run by the Islamic demagogue Erdegan. He will form a close alliance with Egypt and will back the Syrian Islamic Sunni revolutionaries, including an invasion of Syria, which will fall. Thus surrounding Israel.
Erdegan will seek the mantle of the new Sulman and will launch an assault on the Israelis and thus their Greek and Cypriot allies, pulling Turkey into a war it will not win.
By mid 2013, Turkey will be on the dust bin of history, a dead nation.
Syria
Syria will fall to the Islamic Sunni jihadists, driving out the Alluwate and Christians, as well as suppressing the Shiites. Syria will also become a major battle ground in the war with Israel that Turkey will launch.
Syrian patriots will attack and bog down Turkish forces, fighting them throughout much of Syria, especially in the cities.
Jordan
Jordan will ride out this year as a neutral nation, keeping down their own Sunni fanatics with brutal force. However, Jordan will have to deal with a mass influx of driven out West Bank Palestinians.
Egypt
With its tourist economy dead, the fanatic ran Egypt will face economic ruin. Much of the manufacturing will also flee, along with much of the intellectual capital. In a desperate bid to stave off a military led coup, the Islamics will help launch the war on Israel.
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While the Israeli army will be busy fighting with the Turks on the north, the airforce will carve up much of the Egyptian army as it drives through the Sinai. Egyptian forces will reach the Israeli borders and will drive into southern Israel but will not get far, their supply lines over stretched and heavily damaged. Once Russia enters the war, Turkey's main forces will be pulled back to the Russian front and Israel will counter attack, driving the Egyptians out of the Sinai and closing the Suez Canal. Israeli missiles will destroy the dams along the Nile causing massive destruction downstream.
Egypt will pull out of the war within 3 months of entry, its economy destroyed, its key cities devastated, having lost the Sinai and with a military civil war between the moderate and Islamic forces.
Israel
Israel will suffer heavily in the war, its cities will be under heavy fire by missiles and aircraft bombs. Israel will survive, loosing over 20% of its population. It will take this opportunity to drive out the Muslim Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank.
Saudi Arabia and Iran
While at first supporting the Turkish drive, both with limited military assets and money, SA will soon be faced with a stark reality. With NATO's collapse and the US retreat, Saudi Arabia will have lost its main military protector and will watch helplessly as Turkey is dismembered, like a Christmas bird. Across the border, Iran will waste little time securing its positions in Iraq and will cause a major standoff over the Straights. Along the Persian Gulf, Iranian backed Shiites will become a major problem for the Sunni Arabs. The area will remain tense but mostly peaceful.
Libya
Endless civil war.
Sudan/South Sudan
This year will see a continuation of the war between these two states. Neither side will get to far, before Sudan collapses from its own civil war, between the black Arabs and the African tribes. Ethiopia will finally step in, crushing the last vestiges of the Sudanese military. South Sudan will become a protectorate of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia will become the full power house of East Africa. It will crush the remains of the Sudanese military and its own will be on the borders of South Sudan. It will reenter the Somalia mess, beating down the Islamics and will form an active alliance with the Kenyan Christians driving out the Somali Islamic from northern Kenya, back into war torn Somalia.
South Africa
Taking advantage of the total global chaos, the Marxist fanatics of the black South African government will launch a final solution on the white population. The Boers will retreat into their own well armed enclaves, recreating the Boer republics and will fight it out with the SA forces, which themselves will lose their white components. There may be an alliance with the Zulus. Many non Boer whites will either join the Boers or flee the massacres.
Afghanistan
NATO forces in Afghanistan will face total catastrophe and the majority will be cut off and destroyed, unable to be evacuated out of Afghanistan. Iran will allow German, French and Italian forces out through its borders, as a show of good faith to the FR. US, UK and other forces will face disaster. Some will make it and be allowed into Uzbekistan, most will perish, along with the Karazai government.
Pakistan
Pakistan will collapse, as a full-fledged civil war gets under way. The Pakistani missile forces will secure the nuclear weapons and disarm them, so that the Islamic fanatics will not be able to use them, except as dirty bombs. Many will be smuggled out of the country to either India or Iran for safe keeping.
India
India will sit back and enjoy this year, working on its economy whose export markets will have collapsed. With China in the middle of a hard landing and Pakistan collapsing, there will be minimum security threats to India. Have fun this year.
China
China will have a full economic meltdown, or in today's jargon, a Hard Landing. What started with the property crash in October 2011, will only pick up steam. With the continued economic collapse of the EU and US, demand for exports will all but dry up. Internally, China will have hundreds of thousands of protests (last year it was measured at 180,000 protests alone). It will have a full insurgency again in East Turkmenistan (Xingjian) and in Tibet. These will be put down eventually, but the Chinese giant will be on its knees for years to come, dealing with the super Keynesian economic collapse and various street battles. What will arise in a half decade to a decade will be a much stronger and far more dangerous China.
Japan
Japan will spend the year rebuilding and reshaping Asia. With China temporarily out of the way, Japan will move quickly to first help S.Korea re-conquer N.Korea and two, to form a close alliance of the South China Sea, that is, with Taiwan, which Japan will recognize as an independent state, the Philippines and Vietnam. Japan will also work hard to entrench alliance with Russia, based on economics, while working for secession of Hawaii from a flailing and failing US. US forces will be asked to leave by the end of the year.
Koreas
This could finally be the year of reunification. With a weak new ruler and its master China on its knees, the N.Koreans will face heavy unrest and a military coup, which will lead to an "invitation" for S.Korea to enter the nation. Backed by Japan, S.Korea will reunify the nation, with little real fighting.
Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appear on his blog Mat Rodina
Putin's Intelligent and beautiful wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva
While many of my predictions were optimistic on the time lines, the overall trends have stayed in the same direct. The main exception were the US/EU-created twitter revolutions in the Arab world, which to tell the truth, I had not predicted, but which do, over all, move us towards the ultimate confrontation that will lead to the destruction of Turkey, the collapse of NATO and the final rise of the Fourth Reich, thus reserving a future battle between are reborn Orthodox Block and the Fourth Reich.
Russia
Russia will more than likely face a mild recession this year, as demand for exports (primarily oil, gas, steel and wood) falls, first due to the US/EU fall and then due to the Chinese hard landing. The Russian economy weathered the over all 2008 Crisis, the start of the Super Depression, quite well, regardless of statistics and returned to strong economic growth the following year. 2011 was characterized by strong growth with many European companies, especially the British and Germans, moving production into Russia, to avoid the insanity of the EU, meet minimum criteria for local production and be in position to survive the EU/US collapses. From Siemens to Microsoft, new facilities are popping up everywhere.
However, the second half of 2011 was also marked by a major assault by the US/UK's Masonic elites upon Russia's stability. As I mention in my article ((article)), the West, knowing it is on the brink of an irreversible collapse, must make sure not to leave the stage for the decade or so it will take to recover, without knocking Russian down too, otherwise, they will face a new order they are not willing to face.
This, in effect, has already plaid itself out and failed, though the US media may continue to hype it and push for a new Cold War, to get the attention of their destitute off of their pathetic plights. The coup failed, though it did, to some degree , rock the boat. On the bright side, the rocking will be used to further needed reforms, as a new excuse exists to move some of the blocks out of the way. In the longer term, it had the effect of bringing nationalist, and thus monarchist elements to a more central position and these seeds will continue to grow until some time, probably within the next 10 years, the monarchy will be reinstated. Of course, this will be even more detrimental to the US Masons, one of the most vile enemies of Christian Monarchy that Satan has even loosened upon the earth. But then again, that is what the term blow back is for.
I also predict that two wars will erupt: more than likely another war with Georgia, early on in the year. The Americans will need something else to push on Russia, now that their pathetic purchased coup has so utterly fallen on its face and their hoax media "coverage" was exposed for the utter spliced rubbish that it is. More than likely, the US/Georgians will use another major occasion, such as a holiday (Pascha) or sporting event, to start their war, for which they have been hyper rearming, on the US dollar, since 2008. It will be another short and bloody failure, again sacrificing several thousand Georgian lives for US propaganda value. Since the Russian international information services have failed to come to western standards, over the past 3 years, it will lead to the same results: victory on the ground, defeat in the opinion/mass media. It will, however, be a major blow to the US bought politicos inside of Russia and will lead to major instability in Georgia.
The main war of the year will come in the summer with Turkey, as I predicted previously. It will be a culmination of Edegan's mad scheming to return the hated and barbaric Ottoman Empire to life and will instead result in the utter destruction of Turkey and the final collapse of the NATO rouge regime.
United States
This year, more then likely, America will transfer fully into a police state dictatorship. Sure, they will still have an "election" but the Republican candidate will be handpicked by the party's elites, to make sure he loses to Obama and that Obama remains in power. By midyear the government will have the right to arrest without warrant or accusation "terrorists" and their "enablers". This will be just in time, as inflation will continue to sky rocket and nations will continue moving away from the dollar. An example of this was the recent announcement from China and Japan that they will no longer use the USD in inter-nation trade, just another blow against the only real export the US has, outside of scrap metal and corn. Several major standoffs and shootouts with groups of sovereignty seekers will occur.
Black and Mexican on White and Asian violence will also escalate, but the partisan federal police will look the other way on the "oppressors" getting theirs.
As the economy continues to fall, as real unemployment, vs the fictional figures, continues to creep towards thirty percent, the public will grow ever more disenchanted and angry. More radical elements in Texas, the old Confederacy, Hawaii, Alaska, Maine and Vermont will call for independence and will be crushed. This will work out as all repressive measures work out, drawing instability underground but it will remain so.
Especially problematic for the US will be returning military, who will face little real employment outside the military.
Equally problematic, will be the collapse of Mexico and the full wash over of the violence into the US.
Mid summer, when the Turkish war begins, the US, leading NATO will charge in. However, strong initial losses coupled with internal unrest, will cause it to pull back, to deal with the internal fractures.
Passports out of the US will also become much harder to get, as brain drain will become a serious issue. 2012 will be the year that many of the brightest will finally throw in the towel and head out, especially after the Nov elections.
Of course, than there's the God factor. God punished the US with the many plagues, but the US elites have continued to practice greater and greater evil while the mindless masses screaming its not our fault (but we're a Republic damn it!) continue to holler and yelp in glee at every new warfootage to entertain them. God gave America 1. Heavy winters, 2. Flooding, 3. Fires, 4. Drought, 5. Hurricane Flooding in the NE, 6. Crop Failures, 7. Earthquakes, 8. Early and heavy blizzards in Oct....eight plagues that have all been ignored. As is the way of God, things will only get worse as His rage grows.
Mexico
I know I have been predicting this for two years now, but the collapse will finally come this year. I am amazed how the Mexican government has been able to hold on, but with even the most prestigious resort areas of Acapulco and Cancun war zones and violence flooding into the capital of Mexico City, the end is neigh. This year alone, over 300 gangland murderers occurred in the capital.
With America pumping weapons, keeping the borders open and thus the drug trade going and allowing a safe place for the cartels to hide and recoop, the collapse of the state, that already holds less then half the country within its grasp, is inevitable.
This violence will spill over into the Gulf, further into Arizona, creating absolute chaos
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in that oblast and into Texas, New Mexico and California.
Brazil
The Brazil carry trade will finally collapse, along with the iron ore trade with China, as China suffers a hard landing. Coupled with a much lower demand for oil and gas, the main economies crash down, Brazil's tens of millions of poor will bring the country and government to a standstill, bringing about civil strife and marshal law. The country will survive, but will exit 2012 in much worse financial shape then it entered.
Argentina
Argentina, having passed an insane "terrorism" bill that labels everyone and anyone who opposes the elected government as terrorists, open for indefinite detention, will face ever growing civil strife and the possibility of civil war. To that end, the government, as every government of its type and as Argentina has done in the past, will seek an external enemy, in this case, the traditional Falkland Islands. That there is great deposits of oil and gas already being exploited will just add to the bonus.
Argentina will launch another invasion and Britain will respond. However, the English navy is a shadow of its former self and it will not have US intelligence on its back. The Obama will be backing the Argentines and will give them vast intelligence which will cause the British to lose a carrier and several other ships. The Falklands will be occupied and the British will be unable to land reinforcements on it. To make sure it controls the islands, there will be a whole scale cleansing of the British population, placed on transports and sent to the UK.
No resolutions will pass in the UN, with the US blocking and calling for "cool" heads, while aiding the Argentines.
Cuba
Fidel will finally meet his maker this year and a nationalist government will seize power. This is not the good news that it would seem to the US, as those very same nationalists will start agitating for the Florida Keys and Miami, both effectively Cuban territories due to the mass migrations over the past 40 years.
Iceland
Iceland will continue to go its own way and will be blocked from European trade, as limited as that will become this year. For that reason, there will be major moves from the Kremlin to align the Icelanders into a Russian alliance. The Icelandic economy will be kept afloat, in large part, by Russian trade and monies, not the first time. While there will be realistic discussions about setting up Russian bases on Iceland, as long as NATO stands, which will be through most of this year, this will only be talk.
Ireland
Ireland, with the final collapse of the present EU system and the reformation and rise of the Fourth Reich, will be forced, by its people, to follow the Icelandic route, casting out the last vestiges of the EU. Economic turmoil will wrap the nation, but its low taxes will remain and several major US corporations, fleeing the Fascist regime in the US, will transfer and reregister in Ireland.
United Kingdom
Chaos, war, collapse and the signs of the return of the British. The whole cycle is in wake for the British, with large doses of pain and equal doses of hope. As reported two days ago, over 40,000 businesses look at shut downs in January alone, after another disastrous Christmas season.
The British will not follow the EU into the Fourth Reich formation, outright, but will hang around on the outskirts for the first half of the year, as the decent begins, unlike Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, the first four that will leave outright.
When the British are defeated in Argentina, there will be massive unrest in the streets. David Cameron's government will be able to hang on, however only by slim margins.
The Islamics, never missing a chance to make enemies, will be out in force mocking the defeated British. This will of course feed into the various right wing nationalists groups.
When the Turkish war explodes, the British will ever willingly to join in behind the Americans, as part of the NATO force. However, after losing several combat ships, they will back out quickly, as internal decent will bring down the government. Right wing Nationalists will grab for power, rallying around the monarchy, specifically the crown princes. The rest of the year will see street riots and battles with various Islamic groups and mass deportations by the new government.
France
France's elections will go as planned, that is, Mary Le Pan will come no where near power, even though she has the majority of popular opinion behind her. The fellow Fourth Reich architect Sarkozy will remain in power, through every dirty trick, which may include the assassination of Mary. France will be a main figure in the Fourth Reich.
She will support the war against Russia, Greece and the Orthodox initially, but at the signal from Germany will pull out, allowing NATO to collapse and driving the last of the US vestiges out of Europe proper.
Germany
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The German elites will continue at the full clip moving their nation into the full Fourth Reich union, regardless of what the people proper feel or want. When the war against Russia and Greece begins, Germany will back it and send some planes, though no ships or ground troops will be supplied. When NATO is full invested, which will not take long, Germany will pull out, along with France, crashing the party.
By the end of the year, the EU will be around in name only and NATO will be a crushed and discredited organization. The Germans will be running the whole thing, through their Belgian puppets.
Spain & Portugal
Spain's economy will continue to implode and so will that of Portugal, neither nation able to control its currency. The war against the Orthodox and the collapse of NATO will cause major governmental turmoil and will crush the present right of center government. By the end of the year, they will eject themselves from the EU, as nationalists come to power. The two will form a free trade zone of their own, as well as continuing to make out reaches to Latin America and North Africa.
Italy
Italy's downward spiral will continue and the NATO war will be a major embarrassment. However, as much as people want to leave the EU, it will not work, as the Brussels controlled government will not leave and Italy will become a second tier state, its finances controlled by Brussels but still not part of the EU "Core" aka Fourth Reich. There will be many civil disturbances throughout the country, especially in the south, which will continue to be flooded by North and Central Africans.
Poland
Poland's alliance with the collapsing US empire will become fanatical. Caught between a resurgent and pissed off Russia and the rebirth of the Fourth Reich. Poland will remain in the EU but will continue to distance itself further and further.
Serbia
By the time the war with Turkey erupts, the Serbian Judases in power will be doing the famous helicopter on the roof run. When the Turkish tanks roll into Greece, the Serbian Radical party will rally the people to them, over throwing the puppet regime. Serbian fighters will already be heading down to fight the Turks, even as the government reorganizes and mobilizes the military.
Only part of the military will head to aid Greece, with the rest heading into Kosovo, over running and destroying the NATO forces in the area, and driving out the Albanian invaders in mass. NATO will pull out to a hostile Croatia, whose own nationalists will be rallying to the threat of the hated Turk.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria's leadership will face a similar problem as Serbia's. When the military is ordered to stay out of the war, as the Turks drive in, there will be a military coup as Orthodox Bulgarians take to the streets in defiance of their bankrupt puppet regime.
Bulgaria will also enter the war. American bases in Bulgaria will be besieged by the locals and the Bulgarian military will place the Americans under arrest, for the duration of the conflict.
Romania
Romania will stay out of the war with Turkey but its leadership will barely hold on to power, as it too is rocked by internal decent. They will then become an ever more fringe player in the "new" EU structure.
The Fourth Reich
The new and revised EU, one of close close and even closer cooperation, that is, one where all the fiscal power and thus all the power of the individual states is controlled by Brussels and thus by Berlin, will finally come into reality. The weaker states on the periphery will either be rejected, ejected or will self eject. The core states will be: Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia (the last 3 for strategic reasons). The dictatorial union of the unified elites will of course be weak, at first. They will effectively gut NATO and fully back their EuroForce. Not all states will leave the EU but those not part of the FR will be a second tier at best and will have strong secessionist views in place.
The ultimate strategy of the FR will be no different than that of the Third Reich, but they will require several years to rebuild their economies and put themselves back on their collective feet, as well as create a real war machine. Of course the FR will still be part of the EU and will use that cover name, adding something to the tune of core states or some such.
Greece
Greece will over throw its government within the first half of the year, by a military coup. They will be the first EU puppet regime running for the roof top helicopters. Greece will equally exit out of the EU and will restart printing of the Drachma. There will be talks about alliances with and the appearance of Russian bases.
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However, before these come to fruition, Greece's alliance with Cyprus and Israel will pull it directly into war with Turkey. The Turks will be fighting a three front war, but a large enough force will drive into Greece. The Greeks will fight as hard as they can but will be overcome. The Turkish assault will stall in Thessaloniki amidst massive street to street fighting and also in the mountains to the north. The northern Greeks will be bolstered by Serbia, Macedonian and Bulgarian volunteers, which will further stall the Turkish drive. NATO and the EU will stay out of the fighting, at this point, calling weakly for all sides to come to terms. The Turks will enter central Greece, though much slower than expected, as their forces will be drawn off by a general Kurdish uprising and continued heavy fighting in northern Israel.
Russia will at first stay neutral, also calling for peace, however, it will cut the Turks off from gas and oil. Russian humanitarian aid will fly into Greece, over Bulgarian airspace, even as the Bulgarian government falls to its own military. After that point, active Russian aid will be drawn in.
Images of dead Orthodox Greeks, from Turkish atrocities, will drive the masses into the streets demanding direct intervention. The UN will be blocked by US/UK/French vetos, even as Russian volunteers start to flood into the Balkans. Russia will start to threaten Turkey and this will quickly escalate into air skirmishes. NATO will come alive, directly threatening Russia to stay out. Russia will, by this point be drawn deeply into the fighting, with Ukraine close at the hip.
The Russian military will attack directly through Georgia, who after four days of resistance, will collapse. Tbilisi will not be besieged by major forces, surrounded and forced into submission, as the bulk of the military will drive into Turkey proper. At this point Armenia will enter the war on Russia's side and Azerbaijan on Turkey's.
NATO will confront Russia in the Black Sea and will suffer a full defeat, cut off from Bulgarian support bases, with only Romania's bases left. These will be degraded by Russian missiles and bombers. NATO ships will be sunk, most being American. NATO fighters will also be confronted at the edge of their operability over the Balkans and the Black Sea. This defeat, and Ukraine's entry into the war on Russia's side, will be used by the Germans as a reason to pull out and thus crush NATO from within.
By the end of the year, the Turks will have been checked in northern Israel, will be facing continual Syrian partisan warfare. They will have lost the eastern half of their country to Armenian, Kurdish forces, while Russia will be driving on them, sitting at the outskirts of Ankara. They will still hold Thessaloniki, but will have withdrawn from central Greece and will be under constant attack from the north by Greek, Serbian and Bulgarian forces. They will also have lost Cyprus by this point to S.Cypriot forces, unable to resupply it due to the other fronts.
The final destruction of Turkey, a Russian landing in Constantinople, as well as the capture of Ankara, will come in the first half of 2013. At this point, Turkey will face full dissolution as a nation, being divided into at least 3 maybe four parts: Greek (Byzentine), Armenian (Trebzon) and Kurdish south and southeast and maybe a smaller Bulgarian zone in the north of Turkey proper as well as a slice of northern Thrace.
Cyprus
Cyprus will ride out the war relatively easily compared to the rest in the area. Cyprus will suffer initial missile and bomber strikes by the Turks, directly on their infrastructure, including civilian zones, and on their gas drilling, shutting it down. However, the Greeks and Israelis will be involved and the Turks will suffer losses of planes needed in Greece and Israel. South Cyprus will instantly launch an assault on N.Cyprus and through hard fighting will drive out the Turks within several months.
Turkey
This year will bring Turkey its last war. Turkey's government will continue to be run by the Islamic demagogue Erdegan. He will form a close alliance with Egypt and will back the Syrian Islamic Sunni revolutionaries, including an invasion of Syria, which will fall. Thus surrounding Israel.
Erdegan will seek the mantle of the new Sulman and will launch an assault on the Israelis and thus their Greek and Cypriot allies, pulling Turkey into a war it will not win.
By mid 2013, Turkey will be on the dust bin of history, a dead nation.
Syria
Syria will fall to the Islamic Sunni jihadists, driving out the Alluwate and Christians, as well as suppressing the Shiites. Syria will also become a major battle ground in the war with Israel that Turkey will launch.
Syrian patriots will attack and bog down Turkish forces, fighting them throughout much of Syria, especially in the cities.
Jordan
Jordan will ride out this year as a neutral nation, keeping down their own Sunni fanatics with brutal force. However, Jordan will have to deal with a mass influx of driven out West Bank Palestinians.
Egypt
With its tourist economy dead, the fanatic ran Egypt will face economic ruin. Much of the manufacturing will also flee, along with much of the intellectual capital. In a desperate bid to stave off a military led coup, the Islamics will help launch the war on Israel.
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While the Israeli army will be busy fighting with the Turks on the north, the airforce will carve up much of the Egyptian army as it drives through the Sinai. Egyptian forces will reach the Israeli borders and will drive into southern Israel but will not get far, their supply lines over stretched and heavily damaged. Once Russia enters the war, Turkey's main forces will be pulled back to the Russian front and Israel will counter attack, driving the Egyptians out of the Sinai and closing the Suez Canal. Israeli missiles will destroy the dams along the Nile causing massive destruction downstream.
Egypt will pull out of the war within 3 months of entry, its economy destroyed, its key cities devastated, having lost the Sinai and with a military civil war between the moderate and Islamic forces.
Israel
Israel will suffer heavily in the war, its cities will be under heavy fire by missiles and aircraft bombs. Israel will survive, loosing over 20% of its population. It will take this opportunity to drive out the Muslim Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank.
Saudi Arabia and Iran
While at first supporting the Turkish drive, both with limited military assets and money, SA will soon be faced with a stark reality. With NATO's collapse and the US retreat, Saudi Arabia will have lost its main military protector and will watch helplessly as Turkey is dismembered, like a Christmas bird. Across the border, Iran will waste little time securing its positions in Iraq and will cause a major standoff over the Straights. Along the Persian Gulf, Iranian backed Shiites will become a major problem for the Sunni Arabs. The area will remain tense but mostly peaceful.
Libya
Endless civil war.
Sudan/South Sudan
This year will see a continuation of the war between these two states. Neither side will get to far, before Sudan collapses from its own civil war, between the black Arabs and the African tribes. Ethiopia will finally step in, crushing the last vestiges of the Sudanese military. South Sudan will become a protectorate of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia will become the full power house of East Africa. It will crush the remains of the Sudanese military and its own will be on the borders of South Sudan. It will reenter the Somalia mess, beating down the Islamics and will form an active alliance with the Kenyan Christians driving out the Somali Islamic from northern Kenya, back into war torn Somalia.
South Africa
Taking advantage of the total global chaos, the Marxist fanatics of the black South African government will launch a final solution on the white population. The Boers will retreat into their own well armed enclaves, recreating the Boer republics and will fight it out with the SA forces, which themselves will lose their white components. There may be an alliance with the Zulus. Many non Boer whites will either join the Boers or flee the massacres.
Afghanistan
NATO forces in Afghanistan will face total catastrophe and the majority will be cut off and destroyed, unable to be evacuated out of Afghanistan. Iran will allow German, French and Italian forces out through its borders, as a show of good faith to the FR. US, UK and other forces will face disaster. Some will make it and be allowed into Uzbekistan, most will perish, along with the Karazai government.
Pakistan
Pakistan will collapse, as a full-fledged civil war gets under way. The Pakistani missile forces will secure the nuclear weapons and disarm them, so that the Islamic fanatics will not be able to use them, except as dirty bombs. Many will be smuggled out of the country to either India or Iran for safe keeping.
India
India will sit back and enjoy this year, working on its economy whose export markets will have collapsed. With China in the middle of a hard landing and Pakistan collapsing, there will be minimum security threats to India. Have fun this year.
China
China will have a full economic meltdown, or in today's jargon, a Hard Landing. What started with the property crash in October 2011, will only pick up steam. With the continued economic collapse of the EU and US, demand for exports will all but dry up. Internally, China will have hundreds of thousands of protests (last year it was measured at 180,000 protests alone). It will have a full insurgency again in East Turkmenistan (Xingjian) and in Tibet. These will be put down eventually, but the Chinese giant will be on its knees for years to come, dealing with the super Keynesian economic collapse and various street battles. What will arise in a half decade to a decade will be a much stronger and far more dangerous China.
Japan
Japan will spend the year rebuilding and reshaping Asia. With China temporarily out of the way, Japan will move quickly to first help S.Korea re-conquer N.Korea and two, to form a close alliance of the South China Sea, that is, with Taiwan, which Japan will recognize as an independent state, the Philippines and Vietnam. Japan will also work hard to entrench alliance with Russia, based on economics, while working for secession of Hawaii from a flailing and failing US. US forces will be asked to leave by the end of the year.
Koreas
This could finally be the year of reunification. With a weak new ruler and its master China on its knees, the N.Koreans will face heavy unrest and a military coup, which will lead to an "invitation" for S.Korea to enter the nation. Backed by Japan, S.Korea will reunify the nation, with little real fighting.
Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appear on his blog Mat Rodina
Putin's Intelligent and beautiful wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva
Source-RianRussia.ru
Lyudmila Shkrebneva met Vladimir Putin on the steps of a theater box office. The future first lady was with a friend who had arranged to meet her boyfriend, who in turn had invited Vladimir to come along. They all went to a concert by Arkady Raikin at the Lensovet Theater.
Soon after first meeting Vladimir Putin, Lyudmila moved to Leningrad and enrolled in university preparatory courses. While in her third year at university, she married Vladimir Putin, who was then employed in the intelligence service. The wedding took place aboard a pleasure boat on the Neva River on July 28, 1983.
In 1986, Lyudmila Putin graduated from the philology department of Leningrad State University, defending her thesis “The Participle in the Modern Spanish Language” and fluently speaking Spanish and French. Later, while living with her husband in Germany, she independently learned German.
For two years Lyudmila Putin taught German at Leningrad State University language courses. She took the initiative to set up the Center for the Development of the Russian Language and is a winner of the Jacob Grimm Prize “For a Special Contribution to the Popularization of the German Language” (October 2002).
She is also a prizewinner of the International Association for the Advancement of “Rukhaniyat” Spirituality (Kyrgyzstan). The award was given to her in December 2002 for contributing to the development of Kyrgyz-Russian cultural and humanitarian cooperation. In October 2005, Lyudmila Putin was made an honorary professor at Gumilev Eurasian University (Astana) and presented with the “Golden Warrior” medal.
Lyudmila Putin is interested in the theater and music and likes Russian love songs. She also goes in for tennis and downhill skiing.
Close friends call her a good housekeeper and a person of firm character. Her husband’s fast moving career did not take her aback because she had always believed in such a turn of events. Therefore, she feels admiration rather than pride.
In Lyudmila Putin’s opinion, the first thing the wife of a head of state should think of is “not harming the president’s activities.”
Asked if it is difficult to be the wife of a president, Lyudmila Putin gave a negative answer and added, “The main thing is to remain oneself.”
http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080109/95834025.html
Lyudmila Shkrebneva met Vladimir Putin on the steps of a theater box office. The future first lady was with a friend who had arranged to meet her boyfriend, who in turn had invited Vladimir to come along. They all went to a concert by Arkady Raikin at the Lensovet Theater.
Soon after first meeting Vladimir Putin, Lyudmila moved to Leningrad and enrolled in university preparatory courses. While in her third year at university, she married Vladimir Putin, who was then employed in the intelligence service. The wedding took place aboard a pleasure boat on the Neva River on July 28, 1983.
In 1986, Lyudmila Putin graduated from the philology department of Leningrad State University, defending her thesis “The Participle in the Modern Spanish Language” and fluently speaking Spanish and French. Later, while living with her husband in Germany, she independently learned German.
For two years Lyudmila Putin taught German at Leningrad State University language courses. She took the initiative to set up the Center for the Development of the Russian Language and is a winner of the Jacob Grimm Prize “For a Special Contribution to the Popularization of the German Language” (October 2002).
She is also a prizewinner of the International Association for the Advancement of “Rukhaniyat” Spirituality (Kyrgyzstan). The award was given to her in December 2002 for contributing to the development of Kyrgyz-Russian cultural and humanitarian cooperation. In October 2005, Lyudmila Putin was made an honorary professor at Gumilev Eurasian University (Astana) and presented with the “Golden Warrior” medal.
Lyudmila Putin is interested in the theater and music and likes Russian love songs. She also goes in for tennis and downhill skiing.
Close friends call her a good housekeeper and a person of firm character. Her husband’s fast moving career did not take her aback because she had always believed in such a turn of events. Therefore, she feels admiration rather than pride.
In Lyudmila Putin’s opinion, the first thing the wife of a head of state should think of is “not harming the president’s activities.”
Asked if it is difficult to be the wife of a president, Lyudmila Putin gave a negative answer and added, “The main thing is to remain oneself.”
http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080109/95834025.html
Source-CIA World factbook
Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 contributed to the Revolution of 1905, which resulted in the formation of a parliament and other reforms. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Communist rule and Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into Russia and 14 other independent republics. Since then, Russia has shifted its post-Soviet democratic ambitions in favor of a centralized semi-authoritarian state in which the leadership seeks to legitimize its rule through managed national elections, populist appeals by former President PUTIN, and continued economic growth. Russia has severely disabled a Chechen rebel movement, although violence still occurs throughout the North Caucasus.
Geography ::RUSSIA
People and Society ::RUSSIA
Nationality:
noun: Russian(s)
adjective: Russian
Ethnic groups:
Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)
Languages:
Russian (official), many minority languages
Religions:
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Population:
138,739,892 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 9
Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.2% (male 10,818,203/female 10,256,611)
15-64 years: 71.8% (male 47,480,851/female 52,113,279)
65 years and over: 13% (male 5,456,639/female 12,614,309) (2011 est.)
Median age:
total: 38.7 years
male: 35.5 years
female: 41.9 years (2011 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.47% (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 222
Birth rate:
11.05 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 173
Death rate:
16.04 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Net migration rate:
0.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 67
Urbanization:
urban population: 73% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: -0.2% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major cities - population:
MOSCOW (capital) 10.523 million; Saint Petersburg 4.575 million; Novosibirsk 1.397 million; Yekaterinburg 1.344 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.267 million (2009)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.44 male(s)/female
total population: 0.85 male(s)/female (2011 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
39 deaths/100,000 live births (2008)
country comparison to the world: 104
Infant mortality rate:
total: 10.08 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 147
male: 11.58 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 8.49 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.29 years
country comparison to the world: 161
male: 59.8 years
female: 73.17 years (2011 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.42 children born/woman (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 196
Health expenditures:
5.4% of GDP (2009)
country comparison to the world: 132
Physicians density:
4.3089 physicians/1,000 population (2006)
country comparison to the world: 8
Hospital bed density:
9.66 beds/1,000 population (2006)
country comparison to the world: 5
Drinking water source:
improved:
urban: 98% of population
rural: 89% of population
total: 96% of population
unimproved:
urban: 2% of population
rural: 11% of population
total: 4% of population (2008)
Sanitation facility access:
improved:
urban: 93% of population
rural: 70% of population
total: 87% of population
unimproved:
urban: 7% of population
rural: 30% of population
total: 13% of population (2008)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
1% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 46
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
980,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 10
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: intermediate
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea
vectorborne disease: tickborne encephalitis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
Education expenditures:
3.9% of GDP (2006)
country comparison to the world: 107
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.4%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.2% (2002 census)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2008)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total: 18.3%
country comparison to the world: 64
male: 17.7%
female: 19.1% (2009)
Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a globally-isolated, centrally-planned economy to a more market-based and globally-integrated economy. Economic reforms in the 1990s privatized most industry, with notable exceptions in the energy and defense-related sectors. The protection of property rights is still weak and the private sector remains subject to heavy state interference. Russian industry is primarily split between globally-competitive commodity producers - in 2009 Russia was the world's largest exporter of natural gas, the second largest exporter of oil, and the third largest exporter of steel and primary aluminum - and other less competitive heavy industries that remain dependent on the Russian domestic market. This reliance on commodity exports makes Russia vulnerable to boom and bust cycles that follow the highly volatile swings in global commodity prices. The government since 2007 has embarked on an ambitious program to reduce this dependency and build up the country's high technology sectors, but with few results so far. The economy had averaged 7% growth since the 1998 Russian financial crisis, resulting in a doubling of real disposable incomes and the emergence of a middle class. The Russian economy, however, was one of the hardest hit by the 2008-09 global economic crisis as oil prices plummeted and the foreign credits that Russian banks and firms relied on dried up. The Central Bank of Russia spent one-third of its $600 billion international reserves, the world's third largest, in late 2008 to slow the devaluation of the ruble. The government also devoted $200 billion in a rescue plan to increase liquidity in the banking sector and aid Russian firms unable to roll over large foreign debts coming due. The economic decline bottomed out in mid-2009 and the economy began to grow in the first quarter of 2010. However, a severe drought and fires in central Russia reduced agricultural output, prompting a ban on grain exports for part of the year, and slowed growth in other sectors such as manufacturing and retail trade. High oil prices buoyed Russian growth in the first quarter of 2011 and could help Russia reduce the budget deficit inherited from the lean years of 2008-09, but inflation and increased government expenditures may limit the positive impact of these revenues. Russia's long-term challenges include a shrinking workforce, a high level of corruption, difficulty in accessing capital for smaller, non-energy companies, and poor infrastructure in need of large investments.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$2.223 trillion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 7
$2.138 trillion (2009 est.)
$2.319 trillion (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$1.465 trillion (2010 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 99
-7.8% (2009 est.)
5.2% (2008 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$15,900 (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 71
$15,300 (2009 est.)
$16,500 (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 36.8%
services: 59.1% (2010 est.)
Labor force:
75.49 million (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 7
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 10%
industry: 31.9%
services: 58.1% (2008)
Unemployment rate:
7.5% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 78
8.4% (2009 est.)
Population below poverty line:
13.1% (2009)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 33.5% (2008)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
42.2 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 52
39.9 (2001)
Investment (gross fixed):
21.9% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 91
Budget:
revenues: $273.4 billion
expenditures: $333 billion (2010 est.)
Taxes and other revenues:
18.7% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 164
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
-4.1% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
Public debt:
9% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
8.3% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.9% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 174
11.7% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
5.5% (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 39
8.75% (31 December 2009 est.)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
10.817% (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 47
15.308% (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$268.7 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 16
$213.8 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of broad money:
$780.6 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 19
$631.5 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$573.2 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 24
$437.8 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$1.005 trillion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 15
$861.4 billion (31 December 2009)
$397.2 billion (31 December 2008 est.)
Agriculture - products:
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk
Industries:
complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced electronic components, shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts
Industrial production growth rate:
8.2% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 39
Electricity - production:
925.9 billion kWh (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Electricity - consumption:
857.6 billion kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Electricity - exports:
17.7 billion kWh (2009 est.)
Electricity - imports:
14.63 billion kWh (2009 est.)
Oil - production:
10.13 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Oil - consumption:
2.937 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 6
Oil - exports:
7.301 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Oil - imports:
42,750 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93
Oil - proved reserves:
60 billion bbl (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8
Natural gas - production:
610.1 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Natural gas - consumption:
424.9 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 3
Natural gas - exports:
223.4 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
Natural gas - imports:
38.2 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8
Natural gas - proved reserves:
47.57 trillion cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
Current account balance:
$71.13 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 4
$49.37 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$400.1 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 11
$303.4 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
Exports - partners:
Germany 8.2%, Netherlands 6%, US 5.6%, China 5.4%, Turkey 4.6% (2010)
Imports:
$248.7 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
$191.8 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, plastic, semi-finished metal products, meat, fruits and nuts, optical and medical instruments, iron, steel
Imports - partners:
Germany 14.7%, China 13.5%, Ukraine 5.5%, Italy 4.7%, Belarus 4.5% (2010)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$479.4 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 3
$439.4 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - external:
$538.6 billion (30 June 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22
$393.5 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$297.4 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
$256.2 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$274.6 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 17
$222.9 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange rates:
Russian rubles (RUB) per US dollar -
30 (2010)
31.74 (2009)
24.853 (2008)
25.581 (2007)
27.191
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Geography ::RUSSIA
People and Society ::RUSSIA
Nationality:
noun: Russian(s)
adjective: Russian
Ethnic groups:
Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)
Languages:
Russian (official), many minority languages
Religions:
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Population:
138,739,892 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 9
Age structure:
0-14 years: 15.2% (male 10,818,203/female 10,256,611)
15-64 years: 71.8% (male 47,480,851/female 52,113,279)
65 years and over: 13% (male 5,456,639/female 12,614,309) (2011 est.)
Median age:
total: 38.7 years
male: 35.5 years
female: 41.9 years (2011 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.47% (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 222
Birth rate:
11.05 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 173
Death rate:
16.04 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Net migration rate:
0.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 67
Urbanization:
urban population: 73% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: -0.2% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major cities - population:
MOSCOW (capital) 10.523 million; Saint Petersburg 4.575 million; Novosibirsk 1.397 million; Yekaterinburg 1.344 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.267 million (2009)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.44 male(s)/female
total population: 0.85 male(s)/female (2011 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
39 deaths/100,000 live births (2008)
country comparison to the world: 104
Infant mortality rate:
total: 10.08 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 147
male: 11.58 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 8.49 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.29 years
country comparison to the world: 161
male: 59.8 years
female: 73.17 years (2011 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.42 children born/woman (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 196
Health expenditures:
5.4% of GDP (2009)
country comparison to the world: 132
Physicians density:
4.3089 physicians/1,000 population (2006)
country comparison to the world: 8
Hospital bed density:
9.66 beds/1,000 population (2006)
country comparison to the world: 5
Drinking water source:
improved:
urban: 98% of population
rural: 89% of population
total: 96% of population
unimproved:
urban: 2% of population
rural: 11% of population
total: 4% of population (2008)
Sanitation facility access:
improved:
urban: 93% of population
rural: 70% of population
total: 87% of population
unimproved:
urban: 7% of population
rural: 30% of population
total: 13% of population (2008)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
1% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 46
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
980,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 10
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: intermediate
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea
vectorborne disease: tickborne encephalitis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
Education expenditures:
3.9% of GDP (2006)
country comparison to the world: 107
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.4%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.2% (2002 census)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2008)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total: 18.3%
country comparison to the world: 64
male: 17.7%
female: 19.1% (2009)
Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a globally-isolated, centrally-planned economy to a more market-based and globally-integrated economy. Economic reforms in the 1990s privatized most industry, with notable exceptions in the energy and defense-related sectors. The protection of property rights is still weak and the private sector remains subject to heavy state interference. Russian industry is primarily split between globally-competitive commodity producers - in 2009 Russia was the world's largest exporter of natural gas, the second largest exporter of oil, and the third largest exporter of steel and primary aluminum - and other less competitive heavy industries that remain dependent on the Russian domestic market. This reliance on commodity exports makes Russia vulnerable to boom and bust cycles that follow the highly volatile swings in global commodity prices. The government since 2007 has embarked on an ambitious program to reduce this dependency and build up the country's high technology sectors, but with few results so far. The economy had averaged 7% growth since the 1998 Russian financial crisis, resulting in a doubling of real disposable incomes and the emergence of a middle class. The Russian economy, however, was one of the hardest hit by the 2008-09 global economic crisis as oil prices plummeted and the foreign credits that Russian banks and firms relied on dried up. The Central Bank of Russia spent one-third of its $600 billion international reserves, the world's third largest, in late 2008 to slow the devaluation of the ruble. The government also devoted $200 billion in a rescue plan to increase liquidity in the banking sector and aid Russian firms unable to roll over large foreign debts coming due. The economic decline bottomed out in mid-2009 and the economy began to grow in the first quarter of 2010. However, a severe drought and fires in central Russia reduced agricultural output, prompting a ban on grain exports for part of the year, and slowed growth in other sectors such as manufacturing and retail trade. High oil prices buoyed Russian growth in the first quarter of 2011 and could help Russia reduce the budget deficit inherited from the lean years of 2008-09, but inflation and increased government expenditures may limit the positive impact of these revenues. Russia's long-term challenges include a shrinking workforce, a high level of corruption, difficulty in accessing capital for smaller, non-energy companies, and poor infrastructure in need of large investments.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$2.223 trillion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 7
$2.138 trillion (2009 est.)
$2.319 trillion (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate):
$1.465 trillion (2010 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 99
-7.8% (2009 est.)
5.2% (2008 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$15,900 (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 71
$15,300 (2009 est.)
$16,500 (2008 est.)
note: data are in 2010 US dollars
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 36.8%
services: 59.1% (2010 est.)
Labor force:
75.49 million (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 7
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 10%
industry: 31.9%
services: 58.1% (2008)
Unemployment rate:
7.5% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 78
8.4% (2009 est.)
Population below poverty line:
13.1% (2009)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 33.5% (2008)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
42.2 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 52
39.9 (2001)
Investment (gross fixed):
21.9% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 91
Budget:
revenues: $273.4 billion
expenditures: $333 billion (2010 est.)
Taxes and other revenues:
18.7% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 164
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
-4.1% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
Public debt:
9% of GDP (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
8.3% of GDP (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.9% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 174
11.7% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
5.5% (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 39
8.75% (31 December 2009 est.)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
10.817% (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 47
15.308% (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$268.7 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 16
$213.8 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of broad money:
$780.6 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 19
$631.5 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of domestic credit:
$573.2 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 24
$437.8 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$1.005 trillion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 15
$861.4 billion (31 December 2009)
$397.2 billion (31 December 2008 est.)
Agriculture - products:
grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk
Industries:
complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced electronic components, shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts
Industrial production growth rate:
8.2% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 39
Electricity - production:
925.9 billion kWh (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Electricity - consumption:
857.6 billion kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 5
Electricity - exports:
17.7 billion kWh (2009 est.)
Electricity - imports:
14.63 billion kWh (2009 est.)
Oil - production:
10.13 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Oil - consumption:
2.937 million bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 6
Oil - exports:
7.301 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Oil - imports:
42,750 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93
Oil - proved reserves:
60 billion bbl (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8
Natural gas - production:
610.1 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
Natural gas - consumption:
424.9 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 3
Natural gas - exports:
223.4 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
Natural gas - imports:
38.2 billion cu m (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8
Natural gas - proved reserves:
47.57 trillion cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
Current account balance:
$71.13 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 4
$49.37 billion (2009 est.)
Exports:
$400.1 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 11
$303.4 billion (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
Exports - partners:
Germany 8.2%, Netherlands 6%, US 5.6%, China 5.4%, Turkey 4.6% (2010)
Imports:
$248.7 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
$191.8 billion (2009 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, plastic, semi-finished metal products, meat, fruits and nuts, optical and medical instruments, iron, steel
Imports - partners:
Germany 14.7%, China 13.5%, Ukraine 5.5%, Italy 4.7%, Belarus 4.5% (2010)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$479.4 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 3
$439.4 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Debt - external:
$538.6 billion (30 June 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22
$393.5 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$297.4 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
$256.2 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$274.6 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 17
$222.9 billion (31 December 2009 est.)
Exchange rates:
Russian rubles (RUB) per US dollar -
30 (2010)
31.74 (2009)
24.853 (2008)
25.581 (2007)
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Name: Anfisa
Age: 23
Birth Date: April 30, 1988.
Height: About 5'5"
Weight: About 112 pounds.
Education: Graduate Music University.
Work: Kindergarten Music Teacher.
Never married, no children.
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Anfisa does not smoke or drink. OK if you smoke, please only be an occasional drinker.
Anfisa lives with her parents. She does have computer experience, she does not know how to drive.
Born: Vitebsk
Anfisa has traveled to a couple FSU countries and Germany on vacation.
Language skills: Russian
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Information updated January, 2012.
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Name: Marina
Age: 39
Birth Date: February 10, 1972.
Height: About 5'7"
Weight: About 121 pounds.
Education: University Graduate, Teaching College.
Work: Teacher
Marina was married for 5 years, she has been divorced for over 8 years.
Marina has a 6 year old son.
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Marina does not smoke, she will have a glass of wine or Champagne on special occasions. OK if you smoke, please only be a light drinker.
Marina has her own apartment and lives with her son. Marina has no computer experience, she does not drive.
Born: Ukraine
Marina has traveled to Poland, Ukraine and Russia on vacation. She has never traveled to a Western country.
Language skills: Russian
Marina was referred to us by a good friend of our family. She has an excellent reputation. Marina is a beautiful woman with gray eyes and dark brown hair. Marina is what we call an old fashion type woman. She has an excellent education and job, she knows how to work for a living and support herself and her son. She has those old fashion ideas about what family, marriage, and love mean in life, and she understands what responsibilities come along with those important parts of our lives. Marina had experience with a husband who did not understand what those responsibilities mean, of course she does not want that type man again in her life.
Our crew describe Marina as being a "more reserved, gentle, low-key person. She is not the type person to be the life-of-the-party, she is more on the shy side. Marina is a likeable person, she is friendly, she is an open person once she gets to know you. She is very much a touch-type woman who wants to find a man she can open-up with."
Marina would like to meet a good man from any country for love, marriage, and to create a loving and happy family together. You can be up to about 55 years old, if you have kids that's fine with Marina, she loves them of course. Your looks are not important, only your love and devotion to Marina are important. You need to be the type man who loves children, and you need to be the type man who feels marriage and family are the most important parts of your life. Be a touch-type man who wants to have a close relationship with your future wife Marina.
Marina is a very good cook and she enjoys being in the kitchen, she likes playing with her son, she enjoys being outside doing any activity, and she loves animals. She also enjoys swimming, taking walks, and she likes to watch a good movie now and then. Our crew asked Marina our question: Why are you a special person, and why should a man want to spend the rest of his life with you in particular? Marina said, "I promise to be a good wife for my future husband, I promise to hold him and our family close to my heart always. I dream for a warm family together."
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Information updated January, 2012.
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Name: Anfisa
Age: 23
Birth Date: April 30, 1988.
Height: About 5'5"
Weight: About 112 pounds.
Education: Graduate Music University.
Work: Kindergarten Music Teacher.
Never married, no children.
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Anfisa does not smoke or drink. OK if you smoke, please only be an occasional drinker.
Anfisa lives with her parents. She does have computer experience, she does not know how to drive.
Born: Vitebsk
Anfisa has traveled to a couple FSU countries and Germany on vacation.
Language skills: Russian
Anfisa was referred to us by a current female member and good friend of our family. Anfisa and her parents all have excellent reputations in Vitebsk. Anfisa is a beautiful young woman with brown hair and blue eyes. Anfisa is very much an old fashion Vitebsk type woman. Anfisa has an excellent education and job which she can use in any Western country, she knows how to work for a living. Anfisa comes from a good old fashion Russian family, she does have old fashion values concerning marriage and family. It is very important to Anfisa that her future husband is a family and marriage minded type man.
Our crew in Vitebsk describe Anfisa this way: "She is a kind person who is very easy to get to know and to be friends with. Anfisa is a smart young woman, she is a nice person, we like her a lot. She is not shy, she is a calm person with a nice sense of humor. Anfisa is a touch-type person, she is able to show her feelings and emotions."
Anfisa would like to meet a good man from any country for love, marriage, and to create a happy and loving family together. You can be up to about 40 years old, if you have children that's fine with Anfisa. Anfisa would like to have a child with her future husband. You need to be an old fashion family man who loves kids, be a loving, touch-type man.
Anfisa likes to cook, bake, she enjoys travel, she likes reading, and of course she loves music. Anfisa also likes to be outside doing just about anything, including taking walks, camping, swimming and gardening.
Our crew asked Anfisa our question: Why are you a special person, and why should a man want to spend the rest of his life with you in particular?
Anfisa said, "I will love my husband and take care of my husband with all my heart."
Anfisa is a good woman, everyone who knows her really likes her. She is a sweet young woman who wants to find real happiness. Perhaps that real happiness is you!
Information updated January, 2012.
Our Rating:
Name: Marina
Age: 39
Birth Date: February 10, 1972.
Height: About 5'7"
Weight: About 121 pounds.
Education: University Graduate, Teaching College.
Work: Teacher
Marina was married for 5 years, she has been divorced for over 8 years.
Marina has a 6 year old son.
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Marina does not smoke, she will have a glass of wine or Champagne on special occasions. OK if you smoke, please only be a light drinker.
Marina has her own apartment and lives with her son. Marina has no computer experience, she does not drive.
Born: Ukraine
Marina has traveled to Poland, Ukraine and Russia on vacation. She has never traveled to a Western country.
Language skills: Russian
Marina was referred to us by a good friend of our family. She has an excellent reputation. Marina is a beautiful woman with gray eyes and dark brown hair. Marina is what we call an old fashion type woman. She has an excellent education and job, she knows how to work for a living and support herself and her son. She has those old fashion ideas about what family, marriage, and love mean in life, and she understands what responsibilities come along with those important parts of our lives. Marina had experience with a husband who did not understand what those responsibilities mean, of course she does not want that type man again in her life.
Our crew describe Marina as being a "more reserved, gentle, low-key person. She is not the type person to be the life-of-the-party, she is more on the shy side. Marina is a likeable person, she is friendly, she is an open person once she gets to know you. She is very much a touch-type woman who wants to find a man she can open-up with."
Marina would like to meet a good man from any country for love, marriage, and to create a loving and happy family together. You can be up to about 55 years old, if you have kids that's fine with Marina, she loves them of course. Your looks are not important, only your love and devotion to Marina are important. You need to be the type man who loves children, and you need to be the type man who feels marriage and family are the most important parts of your life. Be a touch-type man who wants to have a close relationship with your future wife Marina.
Marina is a very good cook and she enjoys being in the kitchen, she likes playing with her son, she enjoys being outside doing any activity, and she loves animals. She also enjoys swimming, taking walks, and she likes to watch a good movie now and then. Our crew asked Marina our question: Why are you a special person, and why should a man want to spend the rest of his life with you in particular? Marina said, "I promise to be a good wife for my future husband, I promise to hold him and our family close to my heart always. I dream for a warm family together."
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Information updated January, 2012.
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The Russian middle class: Life is what you make it
November 15, 2011
Andrei Molodykh, FillipTschapkovski, Russian Reporter
Members of a generation that grew up with no memories of the Soviet Union may complain about the state, but they don’t expect anything from it, which allows them, maybe, to be happier about their lives.
The Frolov family is having a fun in the yard. Source: Oksana Yushko
Vladimir Frolov stands near a modern apartment block in the city of Tomsk. Vladimir, 28 and his wife Nastya, 22, are both natives of the city, which has a population of around 500,000 and is located in the center of Siberia, 1,800 miles east of Moscow.
Vladimir attended Tomsk Polytechnical University and after graduating, began working for Tomsk Electromechanical Plant. He met Nastya there when she asked for his help with a technical drawing. They have a young son, Sergei.
Vladimir’ss starting salary was 10,000 rubles a month ― roughly $400 – which was not much, even for Tomsk. But in addition to the salary, the company offered the promising, young engineer a company loan with no interest for 25 years, which he used to purchase a one-bedroom apartment in a modern building on the river. The only catch was that if Vladimir were to be fired or quit of his own accord not only would the loan be payable immediately, but he would also have to pay interest on everything he had borrowed up to that point. Vladimir is consequently bound to the company for 25 years, and his family’s future predetermined.
Vladimir, however, finds the conditions fair: “It makes sense from the perspective of my employer. Otherwise, lots of people would try to get their hands on inexpensive loans through the company. Maybe we are dependent. But that’s a small price to pay for our own apartment.”
Life and Work
Every month, after paying the mortgage, the Frolovs have roughly $850 to spend. Vladimir is the sole earner, because Nastya has started classes for a second degree and also takes care of Sergei. Food costs are somewhere around $200 a month. “Everything else has to be split between child, clothes, culture and everything else,” Vladimir said.
He does not sound overly confident when it comes to his future. The Tomsk Electromechanical Plant makes, among other things, giant turbines that siphon smoke from subways. Six of these turbines are currently in use in the Moscow Metro.
“Theoretically, the contracts in the plant could be reduced or disappear at any time. If the higher-ups start making some kind of rubbish, then there are immediate consequences for our working conditions and our wages,” said Vladimir. To have any sense of security, Vladimir thinks he needs at least $1,500 a month, but to receive higher wages, productivity must increase, which in turn can only happen if the equipment in Vladimir’s plant is modernized. “If there were a switch to industry produced by locals, that would be half the battle. Sometimes I visit Germany on business, and there people try to use as many German products as possible. We need that same mentality in Russia.”
Vladimir is concerned about improving the situation at the plant and wants to help it produce innovative, Russian products. This is one of his goals for the future, and if the plant is successful, it will help Vladimir achieve his other dream: A house on the outskirts of town where he and Nastya can raise three kids.
The only problem for this typical Russian citizen is that he has no dream. To put it more accurately, his dream of an apartment has already come true. The framework, within which he no resides, is not conducive to fantasies or dreams, otherwise he would surely find his daily life intolerable. And he still has 22 years to go, before he has paid off his loan.
Nastya, for her part, is a little less ambitious – she would be happy with just two kids. Her goals for the moment are more pragmatic. She wants her son Sergei to go to preschool. In Russia, preschool, like regular school, is provided by the state, but the preschools are overcrowded and not everyone gets a place.
The government is involved in an ongoing campaign to raise the birthrate, but there is no infrastructure to support more children. Many preschool buildings from the Soviet era have been leased as office space, and strict regulations for registering childcare facilities prevent the creation of private kindergartens.
When Sergei is finally in preschool, Nastya would like to get a job in the social services sector. She would like to earn 20,000 rubles ($650) a month, but would settle for 15,000 ($490).
Nastya dreams of a vacation in Sevastopol, where she has relatives. In the future, she would like to travel more – to Egypt to see the pyramids, to Thailand or to Germany, because Vladimir has said lots of nice things about it.
As a salaried mid-management employee, Vladimir commutes between the office and the plant. He sees many sides of the business – one of his main responsibilities is processing orders. He also goes on business trips to clients and suppliers. Sometimes he even works in the plant. In one part of the plant, the old equipment has been replaced with new German-made facilities, but replacing all the old equipment is impossible; the company does not produce enough. The biggest challenged to its survival is the lack of long-term contracts. The factory keeps its head above water via short-term projects, making the majority of its money from air purification and automated control systems for oil pipelines. According to Vladimir, the plant would solve most of its problems if two or three long-term contracts could be signed with oil companies or Moscow Metro.
“German workers have so much indisputable rights and resources: pensions, health insurance, a house, a car, fitness studios, swimming pools. Our future, on the other hand, is full of uncertainty,” Vladimir says.
What would happen if Vladimir had an accident at the plant? Would the loan be payable? “We do not have to worry about that,” he says. “If something were to happen, an insurance company would pay my loan. To be perfectly honest, I am incredibly lucky. Millions of Russians are probably jealous of me.”
This story is abridged from the original version, which appeared in the Russian Reporter Magazine
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The Russian middle class: Life is what you make it
November 15, 2011
Andrei Molodykh, FillipTschapkovski, Russian Reporter
Members of a generation that grew up with no memories of the Soviet Union may complain about the state, but they don’t expect anything from it, which allows them, maybe, to be happier about their lives.
The Frolov family is having a fun in the yard. Source: Oksana Yushko
Vladimir Frolov stands near a modern apartment block in the city of Tomsk. Vladimir, 28 and his wife Nastya, 22, are both natives of the city, which has a population of around 500,000 and is located in the center of Siberia, 1,800 miles east of Moscow.
Vladimir attended Tomsk Polytechnical University and after graduating, began working for Tomsk Electromechanical Plant. He met Nastya there when she asked for his help with a technical drawing. They have a young son, Sergei.
Vladimir’ss starting salary was 10,000 rubles a month ― roughly $400 – which was not much, even for Tomsk. But in addition to the salary, the company offered the promising, young engineer a company loan with no interest for 25 years, which he used to purchase a one-bedroom apartment in a modern building on the river. The only catch was that if Vladimir were to be fired or quit of his own accord not only would the loan be payable immediately, but he would also have to pay interest on everything he had borrowed up to that point. Vladimir is consequently bound to the company for 25 years, and his family’s future predetermined.
Vladimir, however, finds the conditions fair: “It makes sense from the perspective of my employer. Otherwise, lots of people would try to get their hands on inexpensive loans through the company. Maybe we are dependent. But that’s a small price to pay for our own apartment.”
Life and Work
Every month, after paying the mortgage, the Frolovs have roughly $850 to spend. Vladimir is the sole earner, because Nastya has started classes for a second degree and also takes care of Sergei. Food costs are somewhere around $200 a month. “Everything else has to be split between child, clothes, culture and everything else,” Vladimir said.
He does not sound overly confident when it comes to his future. The Tomsk Electromechanical Plant makes, among other things, giant turbines that siphon smoke from subways. Six of these turbines are currently in use in the Moscow Metro.
“Theoretically, the contracts in the plant could be reduced or disappear at any time. If the higher-ups start making some kind of rubbish, then there are immediate consequences for our working conditions and our wages,” said Vladimir. To have any sense of security, Vladimir thinks he needs at least $1,500 a month, but to receive higher wages, productivity must increase, which in turn can only happen if the equipment in Vladimir’s plant is modernized. “If there were a switch to industry produced by locals, that would be half the battle. Sometimes I visit Germany on business, and there people try to use as many German products as possible. We need that same mentality in Russia.”
Vladimir is concerned about improving the situation at the plant and wants to help it produce innovative, Russian products. This is one of his goals for the future, and if the plant is successful, it will help Vladimir achieve his other dream: A house on the outskirts of town where he and Nastya can raise three kids.
The only problem for this typical Russian citizen is that he has no dream. To put it more accurately, his dream of an apartment has already come true. The framework, within which he no resides, is not conducive to fantasies or dreams, otherwise he would surely find his daily life intolerable. And he still has 22 years to go, before he has paid off his loan.
Nastya, for her part, is a little less ambitious – she would be happy with just two kids. Her goals for the moment are more pragmatic. She wants her son Sergei to go to preschool. In Russia, preschool, like regular school, is provided by the state, but the preschools are overcrowded and not everyone gets a place.
The government is involved in an ongoing campaign to raise the birthrate, but there is no infrastructure to support more children. Many preschool buildings from the Soviet era have been leased as office space, and strict regulations for registering childcare facilities prevent the creation of private kindergartens.
When Sergei is finally in preschool, Nastya would like to get a job in the social services sector. She would like to earn 20,000 rubles ($650) a month, but would settle for 15,000 ($490).
Nastya dreams of a vacation in Sevastopol, where she has relatives. In the future, she would like to travel more – to Egypt to see the pyramids, to Thailand or to Germany, because Vladimir has said lots of nice things about it.
As a salaried mid-management employee, Vladimir commutes between the office and the plant. He sees many sides of the business – one of his main responsibilities is processing orders. He also goes on business trips to clients and suppliers. Sometimes he even works in the plant. In one part of the plant, the old equipment has been replaced with new German-made facilities, but replacing all the old equipment is impossible; the company does not produce enough. The biggest challenged to its survival is the lack of long-term contracts. The factory keeps its head above water via short-term projects, making the majority of its money from air purification and automated control systems for oil pipelines. According to Vladimir, the plant would solve most of its problems if two or three long-term contracts could be signed with oil companies or Moscow Metro.
“German workers have so much indisputable rights and resources: pensions, health insurance, a house, a car, fitness studios, swimming pools. Our future, on the other hand, is full of uncertainty,” Vladimir says.
What would happen if Vladimir had an accident at the plant? Would the loan be payable? “We do not have to worry about that,” he says. “If something were to happen, an insurance company would pay my loan. To be perfectly honest, I am incredibly lucky. Millions of Russians are probably jealous of me.”
This story is abridged from the original version, which appeared in the Russian Reporter Magazine
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Hey man totally agree with a lot of what you say but do you really think Argentina can sink even one of the Uk's ships? I know a lot about spec and capabilities of these modern vessels which it seems you dont and Know the Argentinians are still using tech from the 70s/80s. I really think you should look into this technology and reassess you predicted outcome. I can send you information if you need or hit me back to chat if you want roxstarj@myself.com
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Argentina, having passed an insane "terrorism" bill that labels everyone and anyone who opposes the elected government as terrorists, open for indefinite detention, will face ever growing civil strife and the possibility of civil war. To that end, the government, as every government of its type and as Argentina has done in the past, will seek an external enemy, in this case, the traditional Falkland Islands. That there is great deposits of oil and gas already being exploited will just add to the bonus.
Argentina will launch another invasion and Britain will respond. However, the English navy is a shadow of its former self and it will not have US intelligence on its back. The Obama will be backing the Argentines and will give them vast intelligence which will cause the British to lose a carrier and several other ships. The Falklands will be occupied and the British will be unable to land reinforcements on it. To make sure it controls the islands, there will be a whole scale cleansing of the British population, placed on transports and sent to the UK.
No resolutions will pass in the UN, with the US blocking and calling for "cool" heads, while aiding the Argentines.
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I am not the writer of that absurd scenario regarding Argentina.
Source Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/13-01-2012/120227-year_2012-0/
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