An article on the Inform-Polis website describes the 1862 earthquake at Lake Baikal:
http://www.infpol.ru/news/679/66366.php

A 200 sq km area of land, which included several villages, became submerged as the result of the 1862 earthquake at Lake Baikal. It was a 9.0 earthquake. Only 3 people died, because the water rose slowly. Lake Baikal is part ( Read more... )

I wish to write in regards to Japan ( Read more... )

It says in the article below that a crowd in Moscow stormed a train because they thought one of the passengers was of Caucasus origin. So what does that mean, anyway? Darker hair, darker skin, darker eyes, maybe curly hair, a big nose? Anyone matching those descriptions is automatically a target in Moscow ( Read more... )

Olympic Games: Stark Contrast to Poverty and Violence ( Read more... )

From: Billie Sasakamoose [mailto:communications@ shuswapnation. org ( Read more... )

From: Mohawk Nation News [mailto:ioriwase@mail.mohawknationnews.com ( Read more... )

1200 people on 5 trains are stuck in 4 meters (12 feet) of snow, they're running out of supplies and getting hungry. I hope they all get home safely and soon will be warm and fed and with their families! I should note that Sakhalin is a long island off the coast of the Russian Far East. Please send a happy thought to those people and their families ( Read more... )

Hey everybody in the world (at least a billion people) will turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday night March 28th from 20.30 to 21.30! I want to see if it will be easier to see the stars (even though Luxembourg is usually overcast or rainy ( Read more... )

That's the title of an article by by Gerald Warner in the Telegraph. You can find it here ( Read more... )

I just found this blog called "Moscow Through Brown Eyes" and here is a link to one of his postings ( Read more... )