Conversation: St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
Stratfor's Editor-in-Chief David Judson and Senior Eurasia Analyst Lauren Goodrich discuss how Russian President Putin uses the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to demonstrate that Russia is still attractive for foreign investment.
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Mounting tensions between Russia and US
Sixty Russian diplomats are expelled from the U.S. after the attack on a former British spy in the U.K.
Russia: Annual cat give-away hits St. Petersburg's iconic Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg held its annual cat give-away in order to celebrate 270 years of service, Friday.
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Depeche Mode - Walking in my shoes basically Martin 13.07.2017 Saint-Petersburg
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Russia: Lavrov reveals his favourite in the upcoming Confederations Cup
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said an “anti-Russian bacchanalia” was “unravelling without a single fact” in the United States in an “attempt to reverse the results of the election” whilst speaking to students at Kant Baltic State University in Kaliningrad, Tuesday.
SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): We know that in Europe, which is suffering multibillion-dollar losses from sanctions, there are many who oppose the destruction of the interaction in financial and other sectors developed over decades. We support this attitude, but of course, we will judge not by words but by deeds. This fully applies to the United States, where in an attempt to reverse the results of the election, the anti-Russian bacchanalia is unravelling without a single fact. It is a pity. All this creates an artificial, surrealistic agenda in the media space, distracting from the vital tasks, the tasks of developing common approaches to the real not fictional threats.
SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): Our people are patient, we know that. I am sure that in the end this nonsense will run itself out and Western leaders will realise the fundamental interests of their peoples and return to normal relations with the Russian Federation. In the meantime, we will continue to solve the tasks of the development of our country and deepen fruitful cooperation with those foreign partners who are ready to work with us in an equitable and pragmatic manner, without a hidden agenda, without looking back at the fluctuations in the political establishment. And they are the overwhelming majority in the world, and another evidence of this was the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which was attended by 8,000 guests from 62 countries.
SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): Are you seriously asking whom I will support at the Confederations Cup?[Journalist asks which team he supports] Well, if you could see it from here [showing his phone screen with FC Spartak logo].
SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): This is it? This is a question for ten volumes of memoirs probably. You know, this is a very interesting work. Generally, diplomacy is an interesting work. By the way, I am ready to defend the point of view that they are wrong about the oldest profession in the world. Because the most ancient profession still was diplomacy, because first you need to negotiate.
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One more question on Russia-EU relations: Is Russia really a threat to the EU?
Cui Hongjian, director of the Department for European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), explains why some EU countries regard Russia as a threat to their safety. He told CGTN that the great challenge facing both Russia and the EU is finding common interests and building mutual trust.
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Question 1: Extending from Kingsdown to Capel-le-Ferne in England, it is visible from Cap Gris Nez in France and composed mainly of coccoliths. What?
Answer a: Black Cliffs of Dover
Answer b: White Cliffs of Dover
Answer c: White Cliffs of Calais
Answer d: Black Cliffs of Calais
Question 2: Ableskiver is an apple pancake from what country?
Answer a: Taiwan
Answer b: Ecuador
Answer c: Ghana
Answer d: Denmark
Question 3: What does each star represent on the flag of the United States?
Answer a: Beaches
Answer b: State Capitals
Answer c: US Presidents
Answer d: A State
Question 4: Which of these cities is not located in Russia?
Answer a: Moscow
Answer b: St Petersburg
Answer c: Sochi
Answer d: Bern
Question 5: Who won the 2001 Masters in Augusta with scores of 70, 66, 68 and 68?
Answer a: Charles Coody
Answer b: Ian Woosnam
Answer c: Gary Player
Answer d: Tiger Woods
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Answer a: Green
Answer b: Red
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Answer d: Earl Grey
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Answer a: Pointillism
Answer b: Modern Art
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Answer d: Neo-classicalism
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Answer a: The Headless Horseman
Answer b: Mr. Hyde
Answer c: Kaspar
Answer d: Bram Stoker
Question 9: What is a term for decorative pieces including vases, lamps, and picture frames?
Answer a: Accessories
Answer b: Tapestries
Answer c: Focal Points
Answer d: Eclectic
Question 10: How did porcelain find its way to Europe?
Answer a: Europeans Invented It
Answer b: Russian Traders
Answer c: Chinese Traders
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Russia's response to the Salisbury attack
Instead of providing answers, the Russian government's response to the Salisbury attack has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events.
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Vladimir Putin criticises Greta Thunberg's UN speech on climate change - BBC News
Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has criticised Greta Thunberg's speech about climate change.
Speaking at an energy conference in Moscow, Mr Putin said: Nobody explained to Greta that the modern world is complicated and complex.
Ms Thunberg, 16, gave a speech at the United Nations in New York in September as millions of people joined climate strike protests worldwide.
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SCOOTER // Live Spb // 2013
Живое выступленние группы Scooter в СК Юбилейный, Санкт-Петербург. 03 ноября 2013.
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Russia readies START Treaty amid tensions with US
While the future of nuclear deals between the US and Russia has been uncertain this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s ready to extend the New START arms treaty by the end of 2019 without further discussion. RT America’s Rachel Blevins gives us the details.
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Clapper: UK gratified that US took a stand against Russia
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says that Russia's retaliation of expelling US diplomats will not likely result in any further action.
All-terrain vehicle Burlak: the film The North is near
The film The North is Near. 2019. Production: Russia / Amur waves (Amurskie Volny). Genre: Road movie, documentary. Film director and scriptwriter: Roman Super. Cast: Aleksei Makarov, Maksim Belonogov, Sergei Berent, Aleksandr Miakonkikh, Sergei Lapin, Konstantin Gavrilov, Evgenii Skazka.
The plot of the film is based on the second part of The North is Near expedition. In the spring of 2019, the daredevils in three all-terrain vehicles covered more than 6000 km along the North-Eastern coast of Russia from Novy Urengoy to Anadyr in 29 days. They chose directions, and powerful Arctic vehicles carried them straight on.
The film begins in Tiksi and shows Russia hidden under snowbanks and the ever-frost layer. In Burlak all-terrain vehicles, the travelers passed places where other vehicles got stuck in the snow forever. While driving through the most remote inhabited localities and weather stations, they got acquainted with the everyday life of locals. They had to go through blizzard, rows of ice ridges and thermokarsts, repaired vehicles at 35°C below zero. The travelers visited the former distributional center of the Gulag, a ship graveyard, abandoned villages and saw true lords of the North - white bears.
As in the days of the earliest explorers, the Far North is far from being a perfect place for people. Severe frost, lack of roads and thousands of kilometers of snowy wastelands among small inhabited islets.
The Russian North is part of world history and culture. This fact makes it more interesting to look at how the film director shows this territory and looks for answers to difficult questions about life, which we all ask ourselves from time to time.
PEAR russian TOUR
This video clip is a summary of a documentary about the tour of the Dutch band PEAR (a project of singer/songwriter Paul Stolp) in Russia, 1993. This was never released before. At that time Glasnost and perestrojka were introduced but the Yeltsin putsch was yet to come. There was poverty and chaos. After decades of communism people were indecisive. There was radiation of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant. State property was neglected and there was incredible inflation.
The song is called 'Six roses for mr Fuckface' from the album 'Logical 1, Logical 0'. Recorded in 1994, but mixed, mastered and released in 2012.....
The song is about Russia at the time, PEAR's crazy tour and the illegal smuggling of icons by an art trader(Mr Fuckface, the older man sleeping in the bus, just at the beginning of the video), with a little help from the city of Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
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The Putin Files: Masha Gessen
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Nuclear Crisis: How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia | Stephen Cohen
In this week’s episode of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Politics at Princeton University and of Russian Studies and History at NYU. Dr. Cohen has received several scholarly honors over his lengthy career, including two Guggenheim fellowships and a National Book Award nomination, and was, for many years, a consultant and on-air commentator on Russian affairs for CBS News. Former CBS evening news anchor Dan Rather has referred to Stephen Cohen as “one of, if not the premier expert on the old Soviet Union, Russia, and Russian history in al of what we call Western civilization.”
We live in dangerous times, not only in international relations but also in domestic affairs. Russian fear-mongering and gratuitous insults leveled at Russian President, Vladimir Putin serve as powerful political litmus tests in contemporary America. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a presidential candidate for the Democratic party, was recently accused by former Secretary of State and two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of being a “Russian Asset.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump is consistently chided for what his critics assert is “the conspicuous absence of any criticism of Vladimir Putin.”
In the years since Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea, Stephen Cohen has become, in the words of one writer, “the most controversial Russia expert in America.” He’s been openly critical of NATO expansion since the idea was first proposed in the early-to-mid 90’s, and though this criticism puts him in good company, his views on Ukraine and what he sees as America’s role in inciting Russian aggression have left him marginalized and often times disparaged as a “Russian apologist.”
Nonetheless, it is Stephen Cohen’s contention that American is now dangerously close to “War with Russia,” the title that he has chosen for his most recent book, which consists of a series of commentaries on current affairs originally published at The Nation Magazine. He views American foreign policy towards the post-Soviet Union as not only needlessly antagonistic but recklessly endangering of American national security, putting us at the greatest risk of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Putin Files: Vladimir Kara-Murza
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