Archive for March, 2008

Ultimate SUV Truck From Russia - BRDM

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Some people say that HUMMER is the most brutal and monster-type production SUV that can be on streets. Russians think a bit different.
There is a truck, which has better off-road abilities than HUMMER, has 10mm all-around armor, anti-vandalism glass-protecting shields, can swim, is much cheaper and looks extremely cool. Just for about $34000 Russians (and […]

Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Quote of the day:
“Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle” - comment from Kos.

Internet Explorer 8 beta cannot properly display Microsoft’s site

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I’ve recently downloaded a new version of popular internet browser, Internet Explorer 8 beta. In a few days I’m going to test its performance against Firefox, Opera and Safari the same way I did before.
Meanwhile, I’m going to test drive IE 8.0 to see how it feels and if it could be a real competitor […]

Two Presidential Elections In Russia At The Same Time

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

According to official elections site, Central Elections Commission of Russia, there are at least two presidential elections going on right now: election #2 (http://cikrf.ru/counter2.htm), which seems to be more official, and just an election (http://cikrf.ru/counter.htm), which is kind of shadow.
Let me stress the point: both results come from single source, official election commission!
UPDATE: as of […]

Russians Get Rich Very Fast

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Russian State Insurance company published statistics of Russian middle-class grow in 2007.
In summary, year-to-year growth of households who make equivalent of 125 thousand dollars or more is 151%.
Russian economy is booming and it’s reflected in growing income of most of the Russian households. In average, Russians got 10.4% richer in 2007 comparing to 2006. […]

Medvedev Wins Russian Presidential Election

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Dmitri Medvedev is a new President of Russia.

Let me guess results:
Medvedev won with a huge gap, he got 65% of all Russian voters, whereas next candidate, Ziuganov was only at 20% mark. Zhirinovski got 13% of votes.