Russia imports almost everything and exports only Petroleum, Gas and Metals.

So the options will be:

1. Import everything from China
2. Reduce imports, rise excise duty and encourage domestic production.

The 2nd option seems the better one for me. But it is up to Putin to decide.

Hmm... Kadyrov's account will be very heavy. Every year he is stealing billions of USD from the Russian tax payers.

Does any one know that even now Alaska is having a sizable ethnic Russian population?

http://www.pfd.alaska.us.org/index.php/more-articles/87-the-russians-have-come.html

http://www.adn.com/2013/07/07/2966597/linguists-say-ninilchik-russian.html

http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/28/inside-the-elusive-religion-of-alaskas-old-believers/

25K+ now. Looks like the Alaskans are pretty p****d off with Obama.

Hmm... Tymoshenko want to nuke the Russians.... but they don't have any nuclear weapons.
Defence minister wants to shoot the Russians..... but they don't have any soldiers. 

Latest news from Crimea.

Of the 18,800 Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Crimea, 6500 have decided to withdraw to Kiev-controlled provinces. Some 13,300 have decided to defect to Russia.

That means that more than two-thirds of the Ukrainian soldiers have defected.

(The salary of a soldier in Russia is almost 8 times higher than that in Ukraine).

Imprison him in some Siberian penal colony, and he will come up with another 200K.

I don't think that UAE can become the next China.

There will be no closure until the black box is found.

Don't you think that the bombing of the Chinese embassy was intentional?

Civilian refugees killed by U.S. bombs:



A mother and child killed in the NATO bombing:



A refugee killed en route by NATO bombs:

I don't think so. Arabs acted as the intermediaries between the Orient and the West. They stole the knowledge from both the sides.

Well... some people cremate dead bodies. This was no different, as long as conducted in a respectful way.

Tsunamis occur only once in several decades.

Good step. Around 20% of the British schoolchildren are Muslim, and it will go up to 50% in 2050. So this step is welcome. 

During the 1920s, the Serbs outnumbered the Albanians. However, with average Albanian birth rate of 9 children per woman against 1.5 children / woman for the Serbs, the demographic balance was quickly overthrown. Even in the 1980s the Serbs numbered around 30-33%. But then the Albanians started their ethnic cleansing campaign. Most of the remaining Serbs either fled to Central Serbia or converted to Islam.

Once the Serb population was below the 10% mark, all that was needed was to bring Hillary Clinton to Kosovo.  

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1582795/Hillary-Clintons-Bosnia-sniper-story-exposed.html

This is a lesson to all European ethnic groups.

UR is a party which seeks to reduce the population of ethnic Slavs, so that their hardcore supporters (Uzbeks, Tadzhiks, Azeris.etc) can migrate to the lands vacated by them.

The UR politicians always talk about raising the low birth rate, but never talk about reducing the death rate.

The reason is simple. In the name of raising the birth rate, billions of $$$ worth of maternity capital is given to the unwashed hordes from Central Asia. On the other hand, the UR politicians actively encourage drug abuse and alcoholism among ethnic Slav youngsters, in order to reduce their population.

The KPRF is the only party which stands against this genocide.

30% of all adult male Ukrainians in the age group of 15-34 years were killed by the Nazis, including millions exterminated in the POW camps. Was the Soviet democide any worse?

Well... the NATO will provide the Ukrainians with nuclear fuel. So no problems there. 

However, I wonder how much of it will end up in the hands of Al Qaeda.

The Venetians have already voted in a referendum to secede from Italy. Separatists movements all over the Europe are gaining steam.