Tag: Russia

  • Russia Bans GMO’s

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    According to a recent article in The Voice of Russia. food safety experts in the nation have banned GMO’s as research shows they cause obesity and cancer. Russia is firm: no genetically modified organisms in food production, the head of Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov stated at the All-Russian Meeting of Agrarians. GMO-foods controversies between scientists,…

  • Russian Army Choir Performs Stirring Rendition of Adele’s Skyfall

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    Skyfall sung by the Russian Army Choir in St. Petersburg.   The seven man group delivered their rendition of Adele’s Oscar-winning theme tune from the 2012 film Skyfall, on a breakfast television show on the city’s Channel 5. Founded in 1928, Russia’s military choir is better known for military classics like Katjusha, which tells the tale of a…

  • Lost Opportunity to Protect Marine Areas

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    Phillip Mladanov’s post at the Oxford University Press blog looks at the lost opportunity for sustainable ocean management due to the blockage of two of the world’s largest marine protected areas at a special meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Bremerhaven: It is sobering to compare the efforts…

  • Global Shipping Lanes Being Developed in the Arctic

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    Thinning ice in the Arctic is making new shipping lanes possible. Olivier Dessibourg writes about a new breed of ice breaking vessels that can clear wider swathes of ice to boost the development of global shipping lanes in the Arctic. The article appeared in this month’s New Scientist on-line magazine. THE clank of hammers, the…

  • Russia’s new economy minister also a ‘dissident poet’

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    The Global Post brings us news of another (yes there’s more than one) high ranking Russian offical that is also a poet: Russia’s newly appointed economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev has written a harshly-worded poem urging Russians to leave the country and seek freedom, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin appointed Ulyukayev, 57,…

  • What the Russians can teach us about growing organic crops!

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    Christina Sarich at Infowars.com touts the success of small scale organic farming in Russia and encourages Americans to learn from it: On a total of about 20 million acres managed by over 35 million Russian families, Russians are carrying on an old-world technique, which we Americans might learn from. They are growing their own organic crops –…