A lot of you here in Big Hollywood live in the real Hollywood so maybe you have a map to this alternative reality Steven Weber lives in? As I saw the last eight years, whether it was at a convention,
Why can’t I be like Tina Fey? I’m just as smart, and almost as pretty. And I like working politics into my comedy. Yet there she was Sunday night, bowing before the adoring foreign press in a summer dress, while
The leaders of gas-starved European nations pressed Ukraine and Russia to restore energy supplies immediately and the European Union threatened that they both could be sued for ripping apart the continent’s winter heating plans.
AFP: Russia and Ukraine prepared Sunday to restart gas supplies to the European Union after a deal was signed on deploying international monitors to help resolve one of Europe’s worst energy crises.
AP: An energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine is forcing tens of thousands people across Europe to cope with freezing weather and no gas heating.
AP: An independent activist from South Ossetia is challenging U.S. Support for Georgia in its war with Russia and describes atrocities by Georgian troops. But an AP investigation finds she may have ties to a spy service.
Reuters: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he’s confident that Russia will weather the global economic crisis with “minimal losses” and he pledged to maintain rises in social spending. The Russian Prime Minister faced a barrage of questions about rising
Fox News: Herman Simm, 61, an Estonian defense ministry official who was arrested in September, was responsible for handling all of his country’s classified information at NATO, giving him access to every top-secret graded document from other alliance countries.
AP: Russia will deploy short-range missiles near Poland to counter U.S. military plans in Eastern Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev warned Wednesday, setting a combative tone that clashed with global goodwill over Barack Obama’s election.
Russia, Iran and Qatar have agreed to set up a “technical committee” as a prelude to creating a gas equivalent to OPEC.
Embedded video from CNN Video AFP: Russia and Venezuela announced their joint military exercises last month amid high tensions between Moscow and Washington and Russian irritation at the presence of US warships near Russian waters in the Black Sea.
Daily Mail: ‘Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin’ is the product of collaboration between Putin – a black belt – and former World and Olympic judo champion Yasuhiro Yamashita.
Reuters: Georgian hopes for European action against Russia are dashed, despite a strongly worded statement. European Union heavyweights France and Italy insisted on the bloc should not take steps to isolate Russia, hours before an emergency summit issued a tough
AP: President Bush says the United States condemns the ‘irresponsible decision’ by Russia to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces as independent.
Russia has halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West tension over the invasion of Georgia.
The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia – a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.
AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet
The US dollar gained in trading against the euro this session as geopolitical tensions in Russia and Pakistan eased and oil prices continued to slide.
The Kremlin ordered a halt to Russia’s devastating assault on Georgia – five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smouldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
AP: Russia’s Defense Ministry is denying Georgian reports that Russia has violated a freshly brokered truce. Georgia claims 50 Russian tanks moved in to the city of Gori even after Russia and Georgia agreed to a peace deal.
