Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister and the leader of United Russia Party, clarified his views on the socio-economic situation in the country during his televised communication with the people of Russia. Many of his answers did not seem to be inspiring to common people and representatives of the business community. A man made a call from the city of Penza and asked Putin point blank: “Is it true that you wanted to hang Saakashvili by something?” “Why by something?” Putin responded

Thus far there are 24 sources for this series on the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS). Of those 24, only a few have been adversarial in their correspondences. Adversarial though some were, they provided information that was useful for vetting and cross-checking. The number of sources behind this effort is significant because it puts paid the notion that the articles are based on the rumblings of just a few individuals. Sources are located in the USA, Iraq and Afghanistan. All are intimately familiar with the HTS program which is, in the Pentagon’s world—a comparatively miniscule project

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II died Friday morning at age 80, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchy said. The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church died in his residence in the Moscow region. Most likely, he will be buried on December 7. The Patriarch had an ischemic heart disease, he suffered several infarctions and had a severe stroke. The Patriarch died unexpectedly. Despite his age, he appeared healthy, and has been leading an active pastoral life. He was frequently seen on Russian TV, conducting Church services, and meeting with various government officials

The demographic crisis of the 19^th century implied the phenomenon of overpopulation, whereas the current demographic crisis is strongly associated with the decrease of the birth rate. It is about a combination of several interconnected phenomena. The first one of them is connected with the decrease of the male fertility – a lower sperm quality, infertility, a lower testosterone level, etc. If it continues like that, men will become extinct, and there will be no sexual reproduction. Women will considerably outstrip men in number by 2025, which means that the future generations will live under a completely different sex structure. It will no longer be a man’s world

In Russia, inadequate money supply preserved aristocracy and a tradition of authoritarian control. The collapse of world’s financial system today isn’t due to bad loans, irresponsible borrowing or gluttonous consumption (although these things are damaging and unlovely). All that is symptomatic.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has reported an increase of gold and currency reserves for the first time since September of the current year. The reserves gained five billion dollars in only a week – from November 21 to November 28. Analysts explain the growth with the revaluation of the cost of gold, the British pound and the euro. They believe that the growth of the reserves was a temporal phenomenon and that they would decrease in the medium term

Nick Vujicic was born with no arms and no legs. The man has no limbs, but he has a big desire to help other people like him. The young man chairs Life Without Limbs organization that provides assistance to millions of other disabled individuals