Posted on 07/05/2010 8:59:16 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Alleged spy Anya Chapman and dad Vasily Kushchenko worked for a high profile Russian PR firm. The 4 Vlast (the Forth power) is the owner of the Mrs. World-Russia brand. In fact Vasily Kushchenko is listed as contact person for the Mrs World-St. Petersburg edition of the pageant.
The President of Mrs. America and Mrs. World pageant is an American: David Marmel. Here is what he said at a press-conference before the event in St Peterburg:
I am Russian by origin; my father and mother were born in Russia. Although I grew up in America, I always felt like I am Russian. Often people say that I have a Russian heart… With Russia I am connected not only with my origins. Here in a Moscow Theater few blocks down the road I began my work. In 1989 the USSR government invited me to organize a pageant. 50 women from each American state and as many Russian women participated in the event. Next to each other stood Mrs. America and Mrs. Russia. This is when I promised my father to bring the pageant Mrs. World to Russia. We want to show the whole world that Russia is a wonderful place and a safe place…
The boss of Mrs. America dreamed to bring the pageant to Russia?!? The press-conference was held in the headquarters of the Russian news-giant Izvesiya, where the office of the 4 Vlast firm, for which alleged spy Anya Chapman and Vasily Kushchenko used to work at the time....
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Well, apparently Russia is Russia. Before, during and after Communism, still a bureaucratic mess.
Hard to feel superior to them when our government wouldn’t let Jindal build sand berms because it might hurt nesting turtles (they nest on the beach that the oil washes up to, not the berm) and wouldn’t let oil skimmers be used for over 70 days (EPA reg didn’t allow them to release ANY oil back into the gulf apparently, even if 99% of the oil was collected.
And the whole secrecy and lack of access to the spill area, reminds me of when the Soviets wouldn’t admit what was going on around Chernobyl.
And the whole secrecy and lack of access to the spill area, reminds me of when the Soviets wouldn’t admit what was going on around Chernobyl.
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BP and Obama both don’t want that access . . . so the 1st Amendment goes out the window.
Bizarre article here, reads like bad fiction.
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