About two thousand professionals will be involved in the Red registered predators — the Amur tiger and Far Eastern leopard, which will begin on January 31, said Wednesday the Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). «This year, the Far East, taking into account the affected more than 150,000 sq. Km of tiger habitat. Primary data collection on the state of the Amur tiger runs throughout the winter season, and conduct a one-time registration is scheduled for Jan. 31 in the southern and central regions of Primorsky Krai, in the northern same areas and Khabarovsk Krai start accounting is scheduled for Feb. 7″,- said in a statement, informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →

Sberbank of Russia is planning a joint project with the Japanese acquiring international payment system JCB and China UnionPay in the second half of 2015. This was at the briefing said Director of bank cards and cash settlement services Sberbank of Russia Rostislav Yanykin. «With UnionPay, with JCB, probably, we will cooperate in terms of acquiring (payment by credit card organization in retail outlets). Perhaps, in the second half will be some movement in this direction. As a part of the issue of some co-branded cards with these payment systems as long as we do not plan to», — said Yanykin, informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →

The Russians believe that the most friendly relations in the Russian Federation are added at the moment with China, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and the most hostile — with the United States. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM). As follows from the study, answering the question of which countries can be called the most friendly to Russia, 51% of respondents named China. Moreover, experts VTsIOM six years this share has increased more than doubled — from 23% in 2008, informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →

According to the Department of International Cooperation of the Primorsky Territory, among other events in Primorye with foreign participants there is the XXIV Festival of Classic Music «Far Eastern Spring» which will be held from March 22 to April 3. And also Tottori Prefecture Culture Days, XIX Pacific International Tourism Expo (PITE), Japanese language contest, Open International Rate Dance Sport Tournament, Men and Women International A-class Yuri Potapov’s Memorial Tournament, informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →

Over the past approximate quarter century of so-called economic globalization, Wall Street’s ability to be the home of the only dominant “global” rating agencies to bestow ratings on the credit-worthiness of the world has been one of the most effective weapons of financial warfare in the Wall Street arsenal. They rate nations as well as private corporations. Now an answer to the Moody’s-Standard & Poors-Fitch US rating monopoly is coming. Not from the EU, where it is long overdue. It is coming from Russia and China, as so many bold and challenging initiatives of late, informs «Тихоокеанская Россия», ТоРосс. Читать далее →

September the 20th marked the launch of Open Russia, a pro-European political movement spearheaded by former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia’s former wealthiest man was released from prison in December 2013 due to a pardon by Vladimir Putin, after serving close to 10 years in jail following his conviction in 2005, информирует «Тихоокеанская Россия», ТоРосс. Читать далее →

William Engdahl:

Russia and China, the two strategic Eurasian nations, are moving clearly to ultimately break free of the stranglehold of the Dollar System. On September 10 high-level talks took place between the two countries discussing establishment of an interbank money clearing system independent of the US-controlled SWIFT payments system. If enacted it would represent a major step in being able to defend their economies from Washington’s newly-developed weapon of financial warfare against a country that does not behave just as certain powerful circles want, информирует «Тихоокеанская Россия», ТоРосс. Читать далее →

The ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art has launched an open call for participation in an artist residency for Russian and international artists. The residency program welcomes artists who are ready to realize a project in Vladivostok (Russia), informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →

The Kiev government of President Petro Poroshenko has suddenly agreed to, of all things, a ceasefire proposal based almost identically on a proposal unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ceasefire, which seems to be more or less holding after several days, has caught Washington completely by surprise and forced the Obama Administration hawks to pressure the EU at their recent summit to agree new sanctions on Russia anyway. It all underscores the hypocritical nature of the war in Ukraine as a move by Washington warhawks to split Russia from the EU, especially from Germany and make a new Cold War with Russia again the “Empire of Evil.” It’s not working out as planned, however. Читать далее →

On 21st of September, the so-called “opposition” in Moscow and St. Petersburg is planning demonstrations that should gather 50-thousand people in the streets against (here I laughed) cessation of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Russian suppression of Ukrainian independence.

Do you think that Putin has so many enemies in Moscow and St. Petersburg that out of despair and powerlessness people have to go out on the streets?

“Actually, we want to change the government, we do not want Putin. We are tired of his politics. We wait until we receive a new political movement and the resources that Russia has will not be in the hands of only a narrow number of the so-called “managers of Russia” and will be more parcelled out in the community. Here in Moscow actually are people who do not want Putin in power. But we do not go out on the streets rather talk among themselves. We do not have any tools, any party, no movement of which we would really identify with “. Читать далее →

The International Music Festival Conference V-ROX ended in Vladivostok. It was held in the city for the second time — the first was held last year. The participants of the festival were bands and musicians from South Korea, China, Japan, UK, Mongolia, Georgia, Canada, USA, Germany, South Africa and Russia (Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Komsomolsk-on-Amur). 19 groups are from the regional center of Primorye. Among them — the group «Mumiy Troll», whose leader Ilya Lagutenko and became the ideological inspirer of the V-ROX in Vladivostok, informs «Pacific Russia». Читать далее →