Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Monday, 17 April 2017

It is sentenced to lifelong Dislikes | Nikolay Sobolev's history of the blogger from Russia

As in 23 years to earn millions on criticism of enemies and hatred of the audience

After visit of the Let Speak talk-show the Petersburger Nikolay Sobolev of all for few months has gained 2,5 million subscribers, having become the most fast-growing blogger in the world. His progress causes envy of colleagues, but also Nikolay, seemingly, never wishes to add fuel to the fire of general hatred. Lenta.ru has found out, than Nikolay Sobolev irritates critics and the audience and as he earns millions on general condemnation.

Sunday, 9 April 2017

Russia’s Quest to Build a Space Empire—or Go Broke Trying

So when, at a panel during the 33rd annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, the head of the Russian space agency says things like “How should we collaborate for the benefit of all of us to get the best result?” and “We need to find the way how can we do it together,” nobody seems to question his motives.

Which maybe they should have, since that country’s space agency, Roscosmos, hasn’t sent significant representation to the symposium in over 20 years. During this panel, which included 14 other space-agency leaders, Roscosmos general director—a dark, handsome man named Igor Komarov—puts special emphasis his country’s desire to collaborate with the fledgling space programs of emerging nations, like Vietnam and Venezuela. Komarov sticks to feel-good terms like “cooperate” and “collaborate” when he talks about international partnerships—which he and other Roscosmos reps do throughout the symposium. But his agency’s motivation seems more about another C-word: customers. Last year, the Russian government restructured Roscosmos as a state-run corporation, and the cash-strapped organization is using these altruistic overtures to cultivate nascent space programs into new customers dependent on Russia’s 60 years of orbital expertise.

Saturday, 28 January 2017

Video: The Arrest of a U.S. Spy Working as a Russian Intelligence Officer Could Tell Us a Lot About Trump and Putin

Rachel Maddow gave us an interesting and terrifying theory.

The thin-skinned, embarrassing, in over his head dummy that lives in the White House hates the idea of people thinking he's a puppet of Vladimir Putin and Russia. When BuzzFeed News published the now infamous dossier of intelligence reports, that though unverified, were deemed worthy of briefing both former President Obama (wow, that hurts) as well as President Trump, the Trump camp was furious. Serial liar Kellyanne Conway went on Seth Meyers and lied that Trump wasn't briefed on the information. They also have denied any and all of the connections between Russia and their campaign. But new information coming out of Russia raises some interesting questions about the validity of those claims.