Russians regard Georgia, the United States and Ukraine as their biggest enemies, while Belarus, Kasakhstan and China are considered as best friends, an independent research centre Levada found in a recent poll.
50% of Russians regard Belarus friendly towards Russia, 38% Kasakhstan and 18% China. Among others, 3% consider also the UK as friendly towards Russia.
On the other hand, 62% of Russians regard Georgia to be Russias enemy, and 45% think that of the United States. …

Turns out my cheers for Palm Pre seemed to have been premature. It turns out that Palm Pre customers have been experiencing rapid battery drains, according to the Just Another Mobile Monday blog.
As in the Pre is completely ‘powerless’ after sitting idle for 2 to 4 hours.  Now could this be a settings issues?  Sure.  Maybe its something that Palm can fix?  Possibly.  However, poor battery life can be a deal breaker for many people, …

An Airbus A320 of Russian national airline Aeroflot made an emergevny landing today in Novosibirsk, after a crack in the windshield was noticed.
According to UPI, none of the 116 passangers and six crew members were hurt.
The plane was en route from Irkutsk to Moscow when the incident occurred. The cause of the windshield crack was being investigated, UPI said.

American conservative politician Alan Keyes, who ran for President of the United States in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2008, speaks wise words on this video from February, 2009.
“Obama is a radical communist, and I think it’s becoming clear,” he said of President Barack Obama. “Now everybody realizes that it’s true.”
“He’s going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him, or the United States of America is going to cease to exist,” …

Airbus A330-200, owned by a budget Australian airline with over 200 people on board, made an emergency landing on the island of Guam after a fire broke out in the cockpit as the plane flew over the western Pacific Ocean, the Times reports.
The aircraft – the same model as the fatal Air France plane which crashed off the coast of Brazil last week – was carrying 190 passengers, including two Britons, and …

London is no longer in the top 50 of the most expensive cities to live in for foreigners, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey by human resources consultancy ECA International.
ECA says that continued weakness of pound sterling over the year has seen costs for assignees coming to the UK fall. “Central London has dropped significantly in the ranking as many Western European and US locations become more costly than the UK,” according to …

I’m genuinely shocked. According to Daily Mail, tube drivers’ average salary is not formerly reported £37,000, their starting salary is an enormous £40,000, going up to £50,000 with overtime.
And in addition, they get a 43 days holiday a year, and work only a 36-hour week. Moreover, their partners also receive free travel on the Tube and buses.
Their generous salaries have one side-effect: many have taken on  large mortgages and other commitments, so they never like …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised us “change” in his ways, to clean up the Government from people who have abused the expense system, and basically overall new politics. It didn’t turn out very well, as always.
Newly appointed Communities Minister Shahid Malik admitted that he charged the taxpayer the costs of his office space in his constituency house, and his designated second home in London simultaneously, Daily Telegraph reports.
According to the report, Malik claimed the maximum …