Only a SWOT Analysis Will Tell If Things Are Good or Bad This year started with some dire predictions about the imminent and inevitable destruction of the Russian economy with ensuing widespread social unrest.

Will Russia turn Eurasia into the next Byzantine Empire?

The Roman Empire (Byzantine) lasted longer than any other empire in the history of Mankind, officially beginning when the former pagan Empire embraced Christianity in 306AD to 1453AD.

The following video clip "The Fall of an Empire," is a new film produced and narrated by Vladimir Putin's spirtual advisor and was broadcast on multiple occasions recently on Russian TV.
Click here for English translated video presentation about Byzantium. 

Russian ambassador visits Kosovska Mitrovica

This just in from B-92: “Russia will continue to support Serbia as long as Serbia opposes attempts of its own dismemberment, separatism and political bombardments,” said the Russian ambassador. This quote was taken from the last paragraph of the below article and sums it all up. Unfortunately, the Serbian government does not understand the geopolitical realities that putting all their eggs in the basket of Euro-Atlantic integration will undoubtedly fail Serbia and the Serbian people miserably. - TRP

17 December 2009 13:39 Source: Beta
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Aleksandr Konuzin was in Kosovo on Wednesday, in the northern, Serb-dominated part of the divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Beta news agency reports that he stated that the Russian Federation and Serbia had good political and economic cooperation, but that it was necessary to expand it to culture and education. Read more...