Archive for February, 2010
Posted on February 3, 2010 - by Venik
Dash for gas is UK’s best energy strategy, says BP chief
Tony Hayward, chief executive of BP, says wind-power ambitions may not be met and that green energy programmes should be scaled down Britain’s offshore wind revolution, launched with great fanfare by Gordon Brown last month, may struggle to get halfway to its ambitious goals and should be scaled down in favour of a new dash [...]
Posted on February 3, 2010 - by Venik
Cyber-warfare ‘is growing threat’
International Institute for Strategic Studies says cyber attacks could become weapon of choice in future conflicts Cyber-warfare attacks on military infrastructure, government and communications systems, and financial markets pose a rapidly growing but little understood threat to international security and could become a decisive weapon of choice in future conflicts between states, the London-based International [...]
Posted on February 3, 2010 - by Venik
Serbia should not join Nato | Svetozar Stojanović
Serbia should maintain its military neutrality and build bridges between nations, rather than rushing to join Nato A few years ago, I would have accepted the argument that Serbia should tie itself to Nato as firmly as possible, by full membership if needs be, in order not to find itself surrounded by countries that were [...]
Posted on February 2, 2010 - by Venik
Novaya Gazeta and DDOS Attack
The Register, among others, reports that the Web site of one of Russia’s leading independent newspapers – the Novaya Gazeta – came under a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Currently the newspaper’s site is unstable. The reason I even noticed this news item is not because I am a big fan of Novaya Gazeta. It is [...]
Posted on February 2, 2010 - by Venik
Egyptian billionaire poised to join Lebedev in Independent deal
London Evening Standard owner understood to be talking to Samih Sawiris about takeover of Independent titles Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev is understood to be attempting to bring a wealthy Egyptian partner into his proposed takeover of the Independent newspapers, MediaGuardian can reveal. Sources close to the deal said the owner of the London Evening Standard [...]
Posted on February 2, 2010 - by Venik
Kremlin shocked as Kaliningrad stages huge anti-government protest
Special envoy sent to Russia’s western exclave as thousands take to streets in biggest protest since Soviet Union fell Dmitry Medvedev sent his special envoy to the western outpost of Kaliningrad today after thousands of Russians took to the streets in the largest rally since the fall of the Soviet Union. The protest, staged at [...]
Posted on February 1, 2010 - by Venik
US-Russia arms control treaty talks resume
Geneva meeting works towards finding successor to 40-year-old Start 1 weapons reduction agreement, which expired last year Negotiations over a new arms control treaty between the US and Russia resume in Geneva today amid growing criticism of Barack Obama’s conciliatory policy towards the Kremlin from human rights groups and a newly emboldened Republican party. Obama [...]
