Posts Tagged ‘ Russia ’

A European Army??

May 24, 2010
By Stephen
A European Army??

Image via Wikipedia Last Tuesday I attended the Alliance Francaise de Cork/UCC European Symposium. In the afternoon we split into round-tables. I went along to the round-table entitled “The Question of the European Army”. This round-table was led by Quentin Perret of Atelier Europe, Nevin Power and Frank O’Callaghan. Quentin seemed to be on his own on the Pro-Army side. He based his arguments around four points. Security Influence Military Division Efficiencies from Commonalities On the other hand the...

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Mourning

April 10, 2010
By Stephen
Mourning

“All Europeans are Polish citizens today.” Post and text inspired by Julien Frisch

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Irish Eurovision Fans set your Sky+!

April 25, 2009
By Stephen
Irish Eurovision Fans set your Sky+!

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow eveing RTÉ will show the first of three Eurovision preview shows called “Eurovision: Countdown” it is produced by the European Broadcasting Union. It has been produced every year since 2007. This year it is being presented by Jovan Radomir of Swedens SVT and Yana Churikova  of Russia’s Channel One. The show times are: Sunday, April 26th at 17:30 GMT Sunday, May 3rd at 17:30 GMT Sunday, May 10th at 17:30 GMT Who knows I might...

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Ireland no longer Favourite to Win Eurovision

April 9, 2008
By Stephen

The days after Dustin won Eurosong saw Ireland top the betting tables as favourite to win the Eurovision Song Contest. Today that is no longer the case. Russia is now the favourite to win Eurovision. I must say I am delighted at this. A proper song is now favourite and it is a good song. Dima Bilan, Russia’s representative this year, will sail from the Semi’s as the song is proving very popular and is produced by Timbaland. What...

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Ireland to recognise an Independent Kosovo

February 17, 2008
By Stephen
Ireland to recognise an Independent Kosovo

This is the news story of today. Kosovo is expected to declare indepence from Serbia this afternoon. I had to google it but I finally found a website that lists the countrues that will recognise an Independent Kosovo. They are (EU member states in bold): Albania Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Cote d’Ivoire Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Fiji Finland France Germany Greece Greenland Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kuwait Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia, FYR Malaysia Malta...

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Soldiers pimped in Russia

February 19, 2007
By Stephen

Via Gay.com Following recent news that Russia may reinvigorate Soviet law by jailing gays, a new report found that young recruits in the Russian army are being forced into prostitution. The Gazeta newspaper discovered that soldiers from an army base in St Petersburg are routinely being ‘pimped’ by senior officials, who then force them to turn over the earnings.Clients include a former general of FSB, Russia’s intelligence agency. Anonymous soldiers, told Gazeta that they were violently tortured and beaten...

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Morning Briefing, 16th February

February 16, 2007
By Stephen

Dia Duit An nuacht ar an maidin seo. The row over the cost of the Mahon Tribunal continues today (Breakingnews) with Judge Mahon saying the tribunal will only cost €300m, maybe less. Also Labour are getting in on the act (RTÉ) saying that the government are trying to delay the tribunal. Well d’uh Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a former rebel as President of Chechnya (France 24) Pity he wasn’t elected. Serbia has rejected the UN plan for...

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Morning Briefing, 11th January

January 11, 2007
By Stephen

Cisco Systems are sueing apple over the use of the word iPhone which Cisco claim they have trademeakeed it. (BBC) Debris has been found belonging to the missing Indonesian airlibne, which has been missing since January 1st (BBC) The Oil crisis between Belarus and Russia has been sorted! phew! (BBC) Cocaine has been found on 100% of Irish banknotes! wooo! we’re all drugusers!!!! (BBC) Vietnam has become the 150th member of the World Trade Organisation, showing its commitment to...

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Monring Breifing, January 9th

January 9, 2007
By Stephen

Maidin maith! An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Foot and Mouth scare in Antrim! (BreakingNews.ie) Oh god not again! Irish Nurses and Midwives are been balloted from today on possible strike action (Breakingnews.ie). Well they normally get huge support from the general public when they do go on strike! New Jersey may remove one word from their constitution (CNN) And the word is ‘Idiot’. Currently this stops some people with mental disabilities from voting. Hugo Chavez lloks set to...

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Letter To Russian Ambassador

June 7, 2006
By Stephen
Letter To Russian Ambassador

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Ireland His Excellency Vladimir Rakhmanin Embassy of the Russian Federation184-186 Orwell Road Rathgar Dublin 14 7/06/2006Dear Sir, I am writing to you, as the representative of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Ireland, to ask you what steps the Russian Government is taking to bring those who attacked the Gay Rights Parade in Moscow on the 27th May 2006 to justice. Being from Cork where we...

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