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Just found accidentally :D 

1 year after explosions. Does anybody feel more secure now?

http://rian.ru/trend/anniversary_terakty_moskva_metro_29032011/

Today in Moscow Ьetro people left flowers and tears remembering those who died in last year terroristic attack. On 29th March, 2010, two explosions rocked the Moscow Metro (“Park Kulturi” and “Lubyanka” metro stations) claiming 40 people dead, more than 90 injured.

Today morning (symbolic as always) government news agency reported that according to Investigation committee’s representative Pavel Markin, all the organizers of the attack in Metro were identified. Six of them are killed, one is wanted by Interpol. The explosions were carried out by two female suicide bombers Sharipova and Abdullaeva (from Kyzlyar, Dagestan). They were conducted by 22-years old Hossain Magomedov (Dagestan). The organizer of the attack was Magomed Ali Vagabov, one of the leader of terroristic underground being active in Dagestan. The same group carried out explosions in Kyzlyar two days after the terroristic attack in Moscow Metro.

Making statements after the attack, President Medvedev asked officials to increase security on the public transport system nationwide.

Meanwhile, 10 month later a powerful blast ripped through an international arrivals hall of Russia's largest airport Domodedovo on January 24. More than 100 people were seriously injured, 36 died.

Making statements after the explosion, President Medvedev asked officials to increase security on the public transport system nationwide.

Metal detector gates appeared at all important airports and railway stations.

Today several news agencies reported that Doku Umarov, a militant from the southern Russian region of Chechnya who claimed responsibility for those blasts, was killed. Information have not been confirmed still.

I wonder does anybody feel more secure today?

My Nuclear Heritage

A great deal of talk about Japan and nuclear threat have suddenly reminded me where I had been living since I was born. Near a nuclear reactor!


This is The high-Beam Reactor PIK, situated in Gatchina town, 40 km from Saint-Petersbourg.
My grandmather and grandfather and many grandparent and parents of my friends are working there.
The city itself began developing since the reactor was build in 1978.
PIC is Russia's only really advanced neutron source of constant actionin. It is research reactor (the maximum neutron flux with the flow "n/sm2Chs 1015, the number of positions on the beams).

It is sad that experimental possibilities PIK reactor are unique, and in coming years anywhere in the world such reactors would not be created.
The reactor is still working these days descpite it had exceeded its limits years ago. The second ractor was built and officially was opened 2 years ago.
Only officially though.

Japan. No comments.

It is hell

Who are they, Russian Billionaires?

Forbes magazine today introduced its fresh rating Forbes 400, which seems to be the most respected rating of the richest people of the planet. According to Forbes, this year's list broke records in size (1,210 billionaires) and total net worth ($4.5 trillion). The number of Chinese billionaires on the 
Forbes list doubled to 115; the number of Russians grew to 101, Indians to 55 and Brazilians to 30. USA is still the first with its 413 billionaires.
So Russia is now 3rd among other countries. Though Moscow now has more billionaires than any other city – 75 people (only 58 in New York). In other words, now every 12th billionaire in the world has Russian passport.

The richest Russian billionaire is Vladimir Lisin, Chairman of the board of directors Novolipetsk Steel. Lisin owns $24 billion wich puts him at 14 place in common rating. He is the only one Russian in the TOP-20 Forbes rating.
Lisin is a proletarian success story, Forbes says. First job was as a mechanic in a coal mine. Then from steelworker in Siberia he moved towards dominating Russia's aluminium and steel exports along with group of traders called Trans-World Group. That was in early 90-s. Lisin managed the factories, and when the partners went their separate ways in 2000, Lisin got majority stake in Russia's giant Novolipetsk steel mill as his share.

Will Russia betray Gaddafi?

The developments in Libya continue the chain of bloody revolutions in Africa and Middle East of last months.  Libyan and other nations’ refugees are trying to escape, more than 140 000 people already left the country. The majority gathered at Tunisia’s border (it’s still open). Egypt border is closed.  Meanwhile today UN have suspended Libya's membership of the UN Human Rights Council.

According to BBC reports, witnesses said pro-Gaddafi forces tried to retake the western cities of Zawiya, Misrata and Nalut on Monday but were repulsed by rebels helped by defecting army units. Earlier France said there would be no international military action against Libya without a 'clear mandate' from the United Nations but US and Britain seem to be ready to  storm into the country.
While watching so-called king of kings, Mr Gaddafi’s interview to BBC,  one can only lift his hands. Either he is crazy or else world media is making him so, along with the whole situation around poor Libya.
Well, “poor’ in which sense? Millions of poor people, who have no job, education and social care, as it happens in most of African countries? Or maybe we should feel sorry for poor Gaddafi, as U.S. Treasury Department official said on Monday that about $30 billion of Libyan assets in the United States had been blocked from access by Libyan leader and his family.
Libya is a serious oil exporter. According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2010, oil production of Libya reaches around 75-77 million tons a year, and only 7-8 million Libya consumes itself, the rest goes for export to Europe and USA.
Sound good for such countries as Russia, for example. Analysts are waiting for new petrodollars maximums. If the civil war in Libya will last for more than 2 month (it has started about three weeks ago), the question of changing the supplier will soon arise. And not only Libya is involved, as all Middle East is boiling up.
On 1 March, Brent crude rose above $116 a barrel as supply disruptions persist and political violence spreads in the Middle East and North Africa. Meanwhile, at the same day an expert of Russian Finance ministry announced that the price of Russian crude Urals reached the level of $81 and this price will be considered in budget plans (earlier the price of $75 had been built into the state budget).
It should be noted that before today Russia was gentle, evaluating the developments in Libya. That’s not a secret that Russia signed several contracts with Libya, including $2 billion contract for arms supplement and a contract for rail road construction. Nevertheless, today evening the source of Interfax agency in Kremlin told that “Gaddafi is a live political dead body which has no room for him in the civilized world”.

Photo from: http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/events/details/2008/04/16_164138.shtml