As it has been reported, several explosions occurred at a territory of the district of Gali, the separatist region of Abkhazia.   Reportedly, a heavy armored vehicle blasted on an antitank mine in the village of Chuburkhinji; because of explosion one representatives of the Russian occupational forces died at the …

Only a few months ago, the Kremlin was talking about pricing its oil in rubles and making the ruble a regional reserve currency, giving it a status closer to that of the euro and the dollar.

The financial crisis in the Russian Federation has pushed up the already high rates of mortality from heart and circulatory diseases there to third world levels, according to medical experts. And that development combined with other trends likely makes the demographic future of Russia even bleaker than had been thought.