Kaliningrad Region launches its own WikiLeaks site

Kaliningrad Region launches its own WikiLeaks site Published: 08 February, 2011, 18:28   While a London court is hearing Julian Assange’s extradition case, the WikiLeaks founder’s ideas continue to spread all over the world. Following Assange’s call to action, residents of Russia’s westernmost Baltic region, Kaliningrad, have set up their own WikiLeaks branch site (in Russian). The site owners are urging the local community members to submit any documents...

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Memoirs of ex-US defense secretary self-serving – anti-war activist --RT

Memoirs of ex-US defense secretary self-serving – anti-war activist   (20.6Mb)embed video Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror with his newly published memoirs. Entitled "Known and Unknown," it charts how he served under two American presidents, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush.By publishing his memoirs, Rumsfeld, just like Bush before him, tries to create a new history based on fiction, argues Brian Becker from the anti-war ANSWER coalition.“You cannot help...

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Iraq WMD source lied about existence of weapons

Iraq WMD source lied about existence of weapons   The source that won over Washington with tales of WMD and biological weapons in Iraq has admitted he lied in order to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, also known by the codename “Curveball” told the British newspaper The Guardian exclusively he fabricated information about Iraqi biological weapons trucks and secret factories producing WMDs. His objective was to bring down Saddam Hussein. Mission...

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Secret US prisons in Afghanistan revealed--RT

Secret US prisons in Afghanistan revealed Published: 08 April, 2011, 19:29 Image from cdn.picapp.com US officials have acknowledged the existence of secret military-run prisons across Afghanistan where suspected terrorists are held and interrogated without charges, for weeks or months on end. The US military previously denied operating secret prison systems in Afghanistan, although a number of human rights groups insisted they were. Recently however US government and...

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Stubbing out cigarettes-RIA NOVOSTI

© RIA Novosti. Valery Titievsky Stubbing out cigarettes by Anna Sulimina Despite talk of stubbing out smoking in public places getting free of the fumes is a tricky task in Moscow. Over 90 per cent of Russian bar hoppers are passive smokers, while 80 per cent of the country’s cafe society are left sucking in the smoke, according to research conducted by the Statistics of Russia Centre in 2009. The same study found that nonsmoking areas did little to protect non-smokers...

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The Russian Women Myth-RIA NOVOSTI

Women Talk: The Russian Women Myth  column by Svetlana Kolchik As the biggest country on earth, Russia has countless natural treasures. But there is one that is valued more than any of the others, and I’m not talking about oil, gas, minerals or even Gold. These commodities are limited and their value fluctuates far too easily. The precious resource I am talking about is of course women. © Photo Mikhail Kharlamov/Marie Claire Russia Svetlana Kolchik I used to believe the...

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In footsteps of Yury Gagarin -RT

In footsteps of Yury Gagarin The Vostok 3KA-2 is on display at Sotheby’s in New York (AFP Photo / Emmanuel Dunand) A clone of the historic capsule that took Yury Gagarin into space – the Vostok 3KA-2 – will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Just three weeks prior to the red-letter day, on 25 March 1961, a dress rehearsal of the key space mission was conducted. It saw the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule blasting...

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A symbol of rebirth: Cherry trees bloom in Japan-RIA NOVOSTI

A symbol of rebirth: Cherry trees bloom in Japan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 © AFP/ Yoshikazu Tsuno Less than a month after the destructive earthquake of March 11, northeastern Japan was hit by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake on April 7. Some people died in the earthquake, but life continues and the seasons cannot be stopped. Spring has come to Japan, which means that the cherry trees are blooming, symbolizing the renewal of life. This year the cherry blossoms are...

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Being “The Astronaut’s Wife”---RT

Being “The Astronaut’s Wife” Soyuz TMA-21’s crew during the training: Andrey Borisenko, Aleksandr Samokutyaev and Ronald Garan (RIA Novosti / Oleg Urusov) (19.2Mb)embed video A mission honoring the 50th anniversary of mankind's first journey to space is set to depart for the International Space Station at 02:18 Moscow time (22:18 GMT). The Russian-American crew will blast off from the same launch site that propelled Yury Gagarin into space. Their spaceship will be carrying an image of Yury Gagarin. As the Soyuz TMA-21 crew...

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US, Russia discuss joint nuke-powered spaceship project-RT

US, Russia discuss joint nuke-powered spaceship project Published: 05 April, 2011, 20:22 US, Russia and others to discuss joint nuclear powerd spacecraft project. According to Director Anatoly Perminov Russia’s Roscosmos Federal Space Agency and NASA are to meet and discuss the development of a nuclear powered spacecraft. In addition to NASA and Roscosmos, other nations, such as Japan, Germany, France and possibly China, with high level of reactor manufacturing technology...

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Let’s Back The Startup Kids – A Documentary That Needs To Be Seen

Let’s Back The Startup Kids – A Documentary That Needs To Be Seen Mike Butcher7 hours ago Oh, how I wish I’d done this myself. The Startup Kids is a to-be-released documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S…. and Europe. That’s actually what’s nice about it – for the first time we have (outside of our work here onTechCrunch Europe) some media which finds a common thread of entrepreneurs running between the two continents. There’s a nice underlying theme here too....

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Pandora mobile app found to be sending birth date, gender and location information to ad servers

 Cellphones, Software, Mobile Software Pandora mobile app found to be sending birth date, gender and location information to ad servers By Donald Melanson  posted Apr 7th 2011 7:02PM We still haven't heard much more about that Federal Grand Jury investigation into Pandora and other mobile apps over privacy concerns, but an independent security firm has now gone ahead and taken matters into its own hands. According to an analysis done by the...

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Journalism 2.0 Didn’t Kill Anyone, and Neither Did Old Media

Journalism 2.0 Didn’t Kill Anyone, and Neither Did Old Media By Mathew Ingram Apr. 7, 2011, 3:03pm PT 1 Comment Does the journalist who reported on a Quran burning by a right-wing pastor in Florida last month share some of the blame for the deaths of 24 people in Afghanistan in the wake of that event? And is the fact that they died some kind of indictment of the evolution of digital media, or “Journalism 2.0?” That’s the case being made by Forbes...

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Google Should Drop Android’s “Open” Talk

Google Should Drop Android’s “Open” Talk By Ryan Kim Apr. 7, 2011, 9:32am PT 8 Comments Google’s VP of engineering Andy Rubin hit back at a recent Businessweek articlesuggesting that the company was clamping down on the Android ecosystem and exerting much more control over the way carriers, manufacturers and developers use the mobile operating system. But in defending Android’s openness, Rubin seems to be setting the company up for additional...

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