Vladimir of Bulgaria (also known as the Vladimir Rasate, combined Bulgar-Slavic name because of combined Bulgar-Slavic origins of dinasty) was the ruler of Bulgaria from 889 to 893.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_of_Bulgaria

Jovan Vladimir (990 – 1016) was the ruler of Duklja, the Serbian (i.e. South Slavic) principality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovan_Vladimir

The name "Valdemar" was unknown in Scandinavian history before Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182).

The name "Valdemar" was unknown in Scandinavian history before Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182).

The name Valdemar or Waldemar is an old Norse name akin to the Slavic name Vladimir which is said to mean 'lord of the world "or" praised for its power'. According to some sources it have Slavic that comes from the former Germanic roots, according to other sources regarded the Slavic and Germanic forms go back to the same Indo-European roots.
A person who bore the name of Valdemar the Great, king of Denmark in the 1100s. He was named after his grandfather, Grand Duke Vladimir II Monomakh of Kiev. The name has been worn by several Danish kings. In Denmark celebrated Valdemar Day on 15 June.

I will ask this man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Gyllenhaal

Karelia. Welcome back to Finland:)
Russian Karelian city Suojärvi councillor being accused of incitement to separatism.

Speaking at the protest action, Zavarkin reasoned that all the money that makes the Russian republic, go to Moscow and St. Petersburg. And in the end of the rally, he said: "If we do not hear the Russian Federation, we will hold a referendum, I think. Do not need Karelia Russia - let's disconnect".

FSB is investigating the case against the deputy Zavarkin for hours. 1 tbsp. 280.1 of the Criminal Code. If a member is found guilty, he could face up to four years in prison.

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/1695601.html

Tank biathlon World Championship 2015 began in Russia. "Tank biathlon 2015" involves 13 countries. Within two weeks the teams from Kazakhstan, Russia, China, India, Angola, Venezuela, Kuwait, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Armenia, Serbia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will compete.
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=en&to=ru&a=http%3A%2F%2Ftengrinews.kz%2Ftv%2Fnovosti%2Fobschestvo%2F4599%2F

"Dancing BATTLE TANKS" The Swan Lake:) From Tank biathlon 2014 rehearsal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWpsnSBHKA

US intends to continue to adopt sanctions against individuals who have dealings with people, previously blacklisted in the oath and sanction policies.
The Finnish businessman Kai Paananen, who had just been raised on the US sanctions list, has in an interview with the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE announced that this "was the death for his company."
US Declaration reads that Paananen should have "helped Russian businessmen materially". According to Paananen, he got no further negotiations.
https://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fse.sputniknews.com%2Fnorden%2F20150807%2F506670.html
US!!!! Get real!

Russia's Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi intend to meet the actress and environmental activist Pamela Anderson to discuss the protection of whales and polar bears.
https://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fse.sputniknews.com%2Fkarikatyrer%2F20150805%2F499716.html

CORRECT!V has reconstructed Putin's early years in an elaborate investigation. As a young KGB officer, Vladimir Putin displays the ruthlessness that later catapults him into the Russian presidency. Putin plans the blackmail of a professor with pornographic material, he employs a notorious neo-Nazi as one of his informants – and forgives colleagues for anything as long as they are loyal.

https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/system-putin/article/2015/07/30/putins-early-years/

The Russian armed forces in the Baltic train bombings
On the bombs: "to Berlin"
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/630101395400749056

Russian authorities have on President Vladimir Putin's orders started to throw food en masse. At the same time millions of Russians are suffering in poverty.

Swedish and Danish reconnaissance planes were set to conduct an observation mission over Moscow on Wednesday to study Russia's military capability.
http://www.thelocal.se/20150812/swedish-air-force-to-fly-through-russian-skies
“This is part of keeping an eye on countries around our borders,” Colonel Carol Paraniak of the Swedish Armed Forces told Swedish Radio's news programme Ekot today.

Submarines:)
At the Petersburg Alexandrovsky Shipyards, following the project by General-engineer K.A. Schilder, a metal submarine equipped with an original optical tube (the prototype of modern periscope) was constructed.

Submarine designed by K.A. Schilder (1834)

http://englishrussia.com/2009/07/28/the-first-russian-submarine/

@Putin The Russian Navy website.
Read your Russian history!
http://rusnavy.com/history/

78 years ago today, Commissar N. Yezov signed order 00485 under which Soviet NKVD exterminated over 100,000 Poles, citizens of USSR.

The "top elite" of Ural region in Russia - politicians, top businessmen and actors have participated in singing of national anthem dedicated to the "Day of Russia", June 12th. They totally killing it.
https://youtu.be/U3Pg45d3x14
I wonder why they are not yet prosecuted for disrespect for a national anthem, there is such a law in action actually...

Russian new army weapons.
Dmitry Rogozin Deputy Prime Minister of Russia demonstrates.


Ukrainian army counter weapons.
Racoons:)
http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/10-08-2015/131611-ukraine_armed_forces_raccoons-0/

"Norwegian diplomats acted like an Arctic ostrich burying its head in the snow"
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn8fcd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WASjNlVHLt4

Here is something like taken from a spy fiction story from the 60's.
Instead of Checkpoint Charlie it's now Checkpoint Luhamaa in Estonia.

Russia jails Estonia border guard Kohver for 15 years.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33986733

Eston Kohver are now in the infamous KGB prison Lefortovo.
He will probably be replaced by a Russian spy who sit in any prison in the West, says the famous Russian journalist Oleg Kasjin to Postimees.
Russian history are very much alive today.

http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-eston-kohver-estonia-russia/27051332.html

The National Interest: Henry Kissinger interview

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-interview-henry-kissinger-13615?page=2

Kissinger: ...So one should at least examine the possibility of some cooperation between the West and Russia in a militarily nonaligned Ukraine. The Ukraine crisis is turning into a tragedy because it is confusing the long-range interests of global order with the immediate need of restoring Ukrainian identity. I favor an independent Ukraine in its existing borders. I have advocated it from the start of the post-Soviet period. When you read now that Muslim units are fighting on behalf of Ukraine, then the sense of proportion has been lost.

Heilbrunn: That’s a disaster, obviously.

Kissinger: To me, yes. It means that breaking Russia has become an objective; the long-range purpose should be to integrate it.

Heilbrunn: But we have witnessed a return, at least in Washington, DC, of neoconservatives and liberal hawks who are determined to break the back of the Russian government.

Kissinger: Until they face the consequences.

MOSCOW (AP) — American former world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20150819/eu--russia-putin-boxer/

MOSCOW (AP) — American former world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20150819/eu--russia-putin-boxer/

Gerard Depardieu 'Ready to Die' for New Homeland Russia:)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/gerard-depardieu-ready-to-die-for-new-homeland-russia/522330.html
And these of course...
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/four-celebrities-who-secretly-wish-they-were-russian/520104.html

Reminds me of Dennis Rodman, NBA old-timers that went to North Korea:)

Vova Putin...

Russian customs officials want to make smuggling banned Western foods a criminal offense as serious as dealing in radioactive materials or explosives.

In retaliation to Western sanctions over its role in the Ukraine crisis, Russia last year banned certain food imports from the European Union, the U.S. and a few other countries. President Vladimir Putin this month ordered the destruction of confiscated contraband food, with hundreds of tons of fruit and cheese steamrolled and burnt in a public display of the ban enforcement.

http://www.voanews.com/content/ap-russia-looks-to-make-food-smuggling-as-serious-as-arms-trade/2925287.html

Much of the Beluga caviar in Scandinavia are smuggled from Russia.
Maybe we shall burn it in public display and put the smugglers in jail for lifetime...

Or perhaps give the food to this man:)
Ivan Savkin http://se.sputniknews.com/foto/20150811/516185.html


There are some worrisome signs emerging that Kiev may be planning a new military assault against Donbass, Professor Stephen F. Cohen notes, warning that a US/NATO involvement in the civil war in Ukraine may potentially prompt a backlash from Russia, leading to a direct standoff between the two nuclear powers.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150820/1025983307.html

Sometimes I think Vova Putin want Sweden and Finland to join NATO...
Articel 5 was in act until Soviet collapsed even though we are not NATO members.

On Wednesday visited John McCain, the powerful chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Sweden.

The Defense Minister himself visited Washington in May. Besides Congressmen McCain, he met Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. The result has been a work in which Sweden in dialogue with the US deepens its military ties on five areas:

1. Interoperability - which means that the two countries' forces to work better together.

2. Training and education - will increase military capacity. At the end of September, for example, US jets and tanker aircraft based in the UK to practice with the Swedish and Norwegian planes over the Arctic.

3. Materiel Cooperation - this has long been an important area of ​​cooperation with the United States. Sweden's two highest priority projects are the Gripen system (the contents of which 50 percent are American) and submarines - both systems saw McCain during his visit.

4. Research - including the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, McCain visited.

5. International operations - and in Iraq, where Sweden sends 35 servicemen in cooperation with the US training Iraqi units who fights against the Islamic state.

USAF airplane infringed the Finnish air space -
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fi&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defmin.fi%2Fajankohtaista%2Ftiedotteet%3F9_m%3D6323

USAF airplane infringed the Finnish air space -
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fi&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defmin.fi%2Fajankohtaista%2Ftiedotteet%3F9_m%3D6323

LOL and hyvää päivä Igor:)

It was an American C-17 transport aircraft trespassing south of the Ã…land Islands:)
That's not unusual.
In the 70's we in Sweden used to call them trams when the USAF flew between Öland and Gotland.

Why? Because they came in precision time:)


Synonyms for the swedish word "trams"
(baloney, drivel, chatter, nonsense, nonsense, larva, nonsense, silliness, nonsense, rubbish; fuss, hassle free

Synonyms for the swedish word "trams"
(baloney, drivel, chatter, nonsense, nonsense, larva, nonsense, silliness, nonsense, rubbish; fuss,

Goes with Swedish trolls then.

Trolls in Sweden are not a fishing tool!
Tolkien also knew what a troll is.
Apparantly you don't.
Here what they look like.