Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The Best of Pravda
This weekly feature may be turning into "The News of Russia," we'll see...
This is hardly tit-for-tat:
Ask Hugh Hewitt about Russian airplanes.
In non-Pravda news from Russia we learn that the greatest threat to their survivial as a nation is pure demographics.
And then there is this
Finally, I have to thank Cheat Seking Missles for the link to this story from the freer side of the Russian press.
This is hardly tit-for-tat:
There is a serious scandal being stirred up between the two neighboring states, Lithuania and Belarus. The scandal is gathering steam because of the construction dispute to build spent nuclear fuel storage facilities and pig-breeding farms.Let's see, on the one hand, you have a facility that stinks to high heaven, on the other you have one with the potential to rot your flesh. Could that be a tad bit of an over response?
Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antanas Valenis, promised to take adequate measures in return in the event Belarus was going to launch the construction of two pig-breeding complexes on the border with Lithuania. It is noteworthy that the two pig farms, which Belarus plans to build, will be the largest pig complexes in Europe. More importantly, however, Belarus plans to ?attack the Baltic state with pigs? in revenge to Lithuania's initiative to build spent nuclear fuel storage facilities on the border with Belarus, RIA Novosti reports.
Ask Hugh Hewitt about Russian airplanes.
Russia's Aeroflot bans all flights of Il-96 airliner, suffers huge lossesDo you think the mistranslation of "break" instead of "brake" is just the slightest bit freudian?
The flights of the popular wide-body passenger jetliner had been interrupted on account of break failures
In non-Pravda news from Russia we learn that the greatest threat to their survivial as a nation is pure demographics.
Russians, Dying Younger, Have More Abortions Than Children
And then there is this
Soviet bloc workers flocking to Britain
Finally, I have to thank Cheat Seking Missles for the link to this story from the freer side of the Russian press.
Last Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin donned a military flight suit to fly a Tu-160 supersonic long-range strategic bomber. The plane has a four-man crew and no space for passengers, so Putin occupied the place of the first pilot.The story goes on to detail a number of reasons why the story as reported is unlikely. You know come to think of it, the one thing not obviously for sale on the streets of St. Petersburg was a newspaper. It's good to see some journalistic comeptition.
The Russian media covered Putin's flight extensively. It was reported that Putin's Tu-160 performed a midair refueling operation and fired conventional long-range cruise missiles at targets near the northern city of Vorkuta. The Defense Ministry announced that two more Tu-160s with fully professional crews were flying alongside Putin's and that "two of the planes fired missiles."
Yet this seems very unlikely.
