My American friends keep telling me I never say anything positive on this site so I figured I’d do so.
Many Americans and Russians never ponder, thanks to so much cold war era propaganda, the similarities between our two countries.
The symbol of Russia is an eagle, as is the symbol of America. Both in fact derive from the same source; the symbol of the Roman Empire.
The flag colors of Russia are White, Blue & Red, the same colors which make up the American flag.
Both Russia & America have a long standing commitment to a representative government; The Russian ‘Zemsky Sobor’ Read Full Article [...]
Yesterday morning was interesting.
Numerous media outlets published stories saying that Russia was cutting off oil supplies to Belarus, and thus with it, supplies to markets in West Europe. These stories were all released around 5-7 AM EST, just in time to panic the US futures markets.
This caused a healthy spike in oil prices hitting almost 82 dollars a barrel. By 10:30 the press was recanting the story. No worries all is well! Belorussian oil refiners say there’s been no stop or slowing of supply, and it looks like an agreement is forthcoming for 2010.
So oil starts to fall back, Read Full Article [...]
