Russia ordered to pay $50bn for seizing oil company Yukos

bdlive:Russia ordered to pay $50bn for seizing oil company Yukos

rt:‘Mega-arbitration’: Court orders Russia to pay $50bn in Yukos case 

LONDON — Russia will use every means to defend itself after the arbitration court in the Hague ordered it to pay $50bn compensation to Yukos shareholders, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
Energy giant Rosneft, which acquired the Yukos assets after its founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was jailed, said that all its dealings were lawful.
Mr Lavrov responded to an initial report of the verdict on Monday at a briefing, saying: "It goes without saying that Russia — the agencies that represent Russia in this case — will use all the legal options it has to uphold its position."
Rosneft said in a statement that it "considers that all its deals in acquiring Yukos’s former assets and also all its other actions towards Yukos were fully lawful and were carried out according to the legislation in force". Yukos was sold off in opaque auctions to state companies led by Rosneft.
The government firm was then a small player but today stands as the world’s biggest publicly traded producer of oil.

台灣蘋果日報涉嫌造假新聞:外媒的新聞內容裡根本沒提到「癡漢」

自由時報 正妹莎賓娜發酵！ 宅神打臉媒體批瞎掰新聞
  2014-07-27  
 
〔本報訊〕最近哈薩克正妹莎賓娜爆紅，媒體爭相報導，《蘋果日報》日前報導莎賓娜的一篇新聞遭宅神朱學恒打臉，指稱標題是自己掰的，外媒的新聞內容裡根本沒提到「癡漢」。

• 朱學恒在臉書上批《蘋果》。（圖擷取自朱學恒的阿宅萬事通事務所）
  

EU expands Russian oligarch sanctions blacklist in wake of MH17 crash

theguardian
歐盟擴大對俄制裁 點名多位官員 

Measures against Moscow looking likely after shooting down of plane, though deep divisions remain among 28 member states

The EU member states are likely to raise tensions with Vladimir Putin's Russia to heights not seen since the cold war. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev / RIA Novosti / Kremlin Pool/EPA

The European Union has expanded its blacklist of Russians subject to sanctions and broad economic measures against Moscow are looking increasingly likely following the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 despite deep divisions among the 28 EU member states.
Such measures would represent a rift between Russia and the rest of Europe of a depth not seen for over 20 years. While analysts balk at describing the looming standoff as a new cold war, pointing out Russia is a much less formidable power than the Soviet Union, they say the new east-west tensions could intensify and prove very hard to reverse.
So far, with no sign of an end to Russian military support for separatists in eastern Ukraine and reports of direct artillery fire from inside Russia against Ukrainian positions, Vladimir Putin appears to be responding to the threat of more sanctions by raising the stakes on the battlefield.

Russia maybe collapse again and still as a normal developing country like Latin America , Sahara southern Africa

If Ukrain became another Afghania war to Russia , and the whole world rise 

against Russia . 

As Владимир Михайлович Филиппов stated in year 2010 , 「Russia 

degenerate as a normal developing country like Latin America , 

Sahara southern Africa.」

or as some Chinese commentator said , became a local power in geopolitics.

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Is Russia a third world country ?  Google cofounder, Sergey Bryn: "Russia is Nigeria with snow".

 is he right ?

A small comparison between the two:

Russia Nigeria

Corruption level 143rd 147th (place in the world)
Gini index 40.5 43.7
Property protection 63rd 64rd (place in the world)
The most dangerous holiday destination 4th 5th
Easiest place to run a business 106th 108th(place in the world)
Freedom of press 144th 131st (place in the world)


Moscow, Saint Peterburg and some other places are clearly ahead of the rest of the country, but overall, Russia remains a near 3rd world place with poor medical care, horrible roads, completely corrupted police and so on.


the British used to say "the problem of Russians is that they are white, if they were coloured, we would have shown more understanding for their country and nation".

So what do you think ?

Germany expels CIA Berlin chief over NSA spying

Maybe Germany should prosecute and sentence these CIA 
illegal agents activities in Berlin, just like Italy did a few years ago.

rt.com
Germany is expelling the CIA chief in Berlin in retaliation for the latest espionage scandals 'in addition to existing issues'. Two suspected US agents have been exposed in the past week, prompting criticism from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The expulsion comes shortly after the alleged US agents were unmasked, suspected of acting as double agents within the state security apparatus, and passing secrets to US intelligence contacts.
The move was “a reaction to persistent failure to work together in efforts towards clarification,” according to the chief of the Parliamentary Control Panel.

連勝文「就是選擇他的出身」

網友酸連勝文「就是選擇他的出身」

ltn自由時報 

2014-07-04  08:35
〔記者曾韋禎／台北報導〕國民黨台北市長參選人連勝文昨接受電視台專訪表示，無法挑選或改變出身背景，但可選擇做怎樣的人。此說引發網友強烈撻伐，更一一列舉其一生的選擇，強調連勝文就是選擇他的出身，現在的他，是連戰，不是他。

• 國民黨台北市長參選人連勝文昨接受電視台專訪表示，無法挑選或改變出身背景，但可選擇做怎樣的人。（資料照，記者方賓照攝）

批踢踢網友peterhuo今晨發文指出，一個人的出身不應該是他的原罪，而是要看他到底做了什麼選擇。故一一細數連這一生的種種選擇。
peterhuo說，連選擇開500萬元保時捷、住帝寶，卻說自己買不起台北市房子；他選擇住川普大樓、參加playboy女郎派對，即便同班同學出庭陳述此事，仍一概不認；他還選擇花100萬元買40樣禮物追一個女生，結果被劈腿。
peterhuo指出，連選擇不認真讀書、聯考落榜，重考上輔大，再靠捐獻進哥大；他選擇在爸爸與習近平聚會完後的隔天，召開記者會宣布參選；他還選擇在趙藤雄與建商公會力挺後，把西區炒房納入自己政見。
peterhuo再指出，連選擇透過爸爸獲得頂新TDR認股，然後說自己合法申報；他選擇靠爸爸獲得悠遊卡公司董事長，再靠連系立委插隊讓電子票證管理條例過關；他選擇在自己選情告急的時候，讓爸爸派那班加起來千歲的老臣來輔選組織。