Brian David
30 декабря 2009 11:06
Georgia’s Sakartvelo television channel recently aired a remarkably creative video that, in theory at least, should entice young people to join the army, San Bernardino County Speakeasy www.bbvm.co.cc. reports. The video does not particularly have any distinguishing special effects; in it, some cheerful young men are heading from a recruiting station to the army headquarters.
28 декабря 2009 13:35
Just like almost anyone engaged in dangerous work, cosmonauts are no strangers to superstition. Incredible as it may seem, in the world of manned spaceflight there is a body of folklore, superstition, and tradition that is followed by each and every crewmember as if performing a sacred rite. Examples of this abound.
24 декабря 2009 09:58
Bankers’ bonuses played a notable role in triggering the ongoing global crisis, according to a report just released by Bank of England experts.
22 декабря 2009 15:13
December 21 is a special day for Georgian politicians with President Mikhail Saakashvili celebrating his 42nd birthday and true-blue Stalinists marking the 130th birth anniversary of the world’s best-known Georgian.
21 декабря 2009 15:24
This week has the longest night and the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere. After December 22 the days will grow longer but there will still be a lot of cold and darkness around to dampen our spirits.
16 декабря 2009 13:48
“A consortium of Russia’s LUKoil major and Norway’s Statoil Company has won a lucrative contract to develop and operate the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq with recoverable reserves of 12.9 billion barrels of oil", Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said, Reuters reported.
14 декабря 2009 15:45
Italy has expressed support for visa-free travel to the EU for Russians in 2010, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said earlier this week. In televised remarks Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said he was strongly hopeful that in 2010 his country could propose introducing a visa-free regime with Russia.
10 декабря 2009 13:29
Russia-NATO Council's foreign ministers were meeting in Brussels last week for the first time since ties broke off after the August 2008 armed conflict between Russian and Georgia over South Ossetia, agreeing a joint analysis of security threats, a cooperation plan for next year and on reforming the Council’s work.
8 декабря 2009 14:52
A UN climate conference has opened for two weeks of negotiations among 192 nations to forge a pact to secure the world from calamitous global warming. The heads of state and government of more than 100 countries will attend the final days of the two-week conference that has brought together about 15,000 participants from around the globe.
4 декабря 2009 11:45
In a sign of things finally moving on clinching a new nuclear arms reduction deal with Moscow, the United States has dropped its longstanding demand for an on-site count of all Russian ballistic missiles.
30 ноября 2009 14:15
Animals and birds have traditionally been seen by man as carriers of dangerous diseases, but a new study suggests that animals are now picking up human diseases, possibly as a result of globalization.
26 ноября 2009 11:34
Doctors have long been telling us that salt is poison, but American scientists are challenging this decades-old conventional wisdom that we should watch our salt.
20 ноября 2009 13:12
This year, Detroit tops the Forbes’ list of America's most dangerous cities. To compile the list, Forbes used violent crime statistics from the FBI' s latest uniform crime report issued in 2008. The unemployment-hit Detroit has a staggering rate of 1,220 violent crimes committed per 100,000 people.
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