Remember John A Shaw? He was the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense from the Pentagon who, back in October, claimed that the reason there were no WMDs left in Iraq was because Russian special forces had spirited...
Archive - 2004
AndyAiport security in Russia still lax
The Black Widows who killed 90 people when they blew up two Russian airliners in August this year got onto the planes by buying last minute tickets from ticket scalpers. The Russian government, not to mention the...
Weekly News #3
Have a very merry Christmas! But, before you do, check out the news from Russia… Yukos Sunday’s auction of Yukos subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz resulted in what is probably one of the biggest shocks to...
Weekly News Summary
Wednesday is upon us once again – time to check out what’s been happening in and around Russia over the past seven days. The major headline from today is the ongoing hostage situation in Athens. Two...
Russian men hijack bus in Athens?
A bus was hijacked in Athens this morning and its 26 passengers held at gunpoint. The identity of the hijackers is uncertain at the moment – the bus driver thinks they are Albanian, but RIA Novosti (via...
Blog of the week – 52 North 16
Irkutsk is easily the most excellent city in the whole wide world. It’s commonly known as the Paris of Siberia, because all the Decembrist’s exiled by Tsar Alexander II brought ‘culture’...
Yushchenko poisoned. Russia blamed.
It seems pretty clear now that Victor Yushchenko was poisoned. Doctors in Vienna have confirmed that his blood contained over 1,000 times the normal amount of dioxin. Yushchenko himself has laid the blame on the...
Weekly News Roundup
Response to last week’s trial run seemed positive, so a news roundup will become a regular feature on SiberianLight. Right now I plan to run it weekly, but this could change depending on time commitments...
Putin – World Tour 2004
Putin has been racking up the airmiles this last few weeks. By my count, he’s been to: Ukraine – where he endorsed Yanukovich as his choice for Governor President Chile – were he announced...
You get what you pay for
Today it was announced that Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India’s state own energy company plans to bid against Gazprom in the auction for Yukos subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz. Hooray! Putin is...