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My life began on 24 September 1958 at 60 Liteiny Prospekt, where I was brought from the nearby maternity hospital. I was born at the Snegirevskaya Hospital on Mayakovsky Street, only a block away fro...
Exclusive clinching evidence that there has been a huge net flow of funds from Scotland to the Treasury since 1979 came in an answer from the Government in the final hours of the old Parliament last ...
SCOTLAND WITH ONLY 9% OF THE UK’S POPULATION HAS: 32% of the land area 61% of the sea area 90% of the fresh water 65% of the natural gas production 96.5% of the crude oil production 47% of the open c...
George Galloway often describes the Conservative Party and Labour Party as “two cheeks of the same arse.” This has been long apparent to all Scots, who observe with daily bemusement as the BBC, the d...
The indications are the SNP will be the majority party from Scotland and thus under article 19 of the Treaty of Union will represent the “ considered will of the people of Scotland ” at Westminster, ...
1994 Russian Museum Romanticism in Russia Revelling St Petersburg Anatoly Kaplan: Painting, Graphic Art, Ceramics, Glass, Sculpture Peter and Irene Ludwig’s Gift to the Russian Museum Rudolf Nureyev ...
What if I was to suggest that Scotland has a never ending oil supply? You would maybe think I had one too many nippy sweeties, and I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that. After all, we have been taug...
The good news is that panic scenarios about the world running out of oil any time soon are wrong. The bad news is that the price of oil is going to continue to rise. “Peak Oil” is not our problem. Po...
There was a murder ring operating at the Admiralty in St Petersburg... Rather like the infamous “kill squad” of US army soldiers implicated in the Maywand District murders in Afghanistan in 2010, Rus...
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frédéric...