I recently made a visit in Moscow with the International Trades Committee of the European Parliament to investigate the views of various Russian stakeholders on the Russian World Trade Organisation accession. We were able to meet members of the Duma, the Russian parliament. That was interesting.

During a recent visit in Moscow with the International Trades Committee of the European Parliament to investigate the views of various Russian stakeholders on the Russian WTO accession, I took the liberty of meeting up with other people who are not normally so affiliated with the parliament activities neither in Europe nor in Russia.

I'm reading the book The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky, this mythical man made eternal by Boney M and the October Revolution.

[Courtesy of sandb]: The post has been given a substantial plastic surgery. There is nothing as weird as Vlad III the Impaler going on.

Apart from having become more civilized, why don't we hang pirates anymore? Well. It's cruel, of course. There are many good reasons for why not to hang people, and at that, many good reasons for not having a death penalty at all.

Det finns ett uppenbart sätt man kan ha ihjäl människor på vid en gasledning: att spränga den. Det orsakar stor skada, och förhindrar leverans av gas till människor som troligtvis behöver den. Sådana attentat har bland annat varit vardagsmat i Irak sedan flera år tillbaka.