AKSAKOVO, June 18 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service plans to separate smokers and non-smokers in prisons and other detention facilities, an official said on Tuesday. “We will certainly separate smoking and non-smoking suspects, defendants and convicts,” said Valery Trofimov, who heads the service’s department for social, psychological and educational work with inmates. “There will [...]
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
Russia Vows to Crack Down on Offshore Zones
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will develop a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. “We are in the process of adopting legislation to disclose the end beneficiary,” he told a news conference after a G8 summit in Northern Ireland, adding that he would sign the [...]
June 19, 2013
US Photographer Captures Soviet Past, Lithuanian Life in Rural Discos
WASHINGTON, June 18 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – Seattle photographer Andrew Miksys was in the eastern Lithuanian village of Svencionys in 2000 when he spotted young people walking into a Soviet-era cultural center. “I followed them and found there was a disco there,” Miksys, 43, told RIA Novosti in a telephone interview from [...]
June 19, 2013
Russia Pays Off $2B Soviet Debt to Serbia, Slovakia
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has paid off a $2 billion Soviet-era debt to Serbia and Slovakia, the Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday. Russia’s $1.7 billion debt to Slovakia and $288.8 million debt to Serbia originated when it assumed responsibility for Soviet obligations under trade and economic cooperation with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the [...]
June 19, 2013
Russia to Hold G8 Summit in Sochi on June 4-5, 2014
LOUGH ERNE, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – The next G8 summit will take place in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in June 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday. Group of Eight: Countries and Permanent Members “The Group of Eight summit I [...]
June 18, 2013
Russia to Issue Separate Statement on Chemical Weapons in Syria
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will issue a separate statement on the use of chemical weapons in Syria as an attachment to the G8 joint declaration, underscoring the divergence of opinions on the issue among the participants of the summit, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said [...]
June 18, 2013
Moscow Counts on Finding Syria Compromise with US, UN
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow hopes that upcoming three-way talks will result in an agreement that will help end Syria’s two-year civil war, a senior Russian official said on Tuesday, as the issue of Syria opened up a chasm between Russia and the West at the ongoing G8 summit in Northern Ireland. “We [...]
June 18, 2013
Russia’s Youth Population ‘In Steady Decline’
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday. “According to the Federal State Statistics Service, in 2012 there were 31.6 million people in the 15-29 age [...]
June 18, 2013
Putin ‘Not Lonely’ at G8 Summit
LOUGH ERNE, Northern Ireland, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday played down assertions that, regarding how to deal with the Syria conflict, he alone was opposing all other leaders of the Group of Eight powerful economies in talks this week in Northern Ireland. When asked by a reporter whether he [...]
June 18, 2013
Missile Defense Dispute Requires More Transparency – Putin
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute. “The disagreements still remain, but I agree, in general, with US President [Barack] [...]
June 17, 2013
Pentagon Signs New Russian Helicopter Deal
MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States have signed a contract for the delivery of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan army, a Russian government agency said Monday. The Russian state-owned defense firm Rosoboronexport and the US Department of the Army signed the contract on Sunday in Paris “as part of [...]
June 17, 2013
CHTZ-URALTRAC is shipping tractor parts to the EU
17.06.2013 — News CHELYABINSK REGION CHTZ-Uraltrac, LLC, a subsidiary of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation, OJSC, is filling orders from Eastern and Southwestern Europe. The corporation’s press office told RusBusinessNews that one shipment of parts will be sent to Portugal, where currently four TP-20 pipelayers are operating, and the Czech Republic will receive a [...]
June 17, 2013
Monitoring Medvedev’s Calls Easy for US Spies – Ex-FSB Head
MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – There would have been few technical difficulties for US spies wanting to listen to the secret communications of then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during the 2009 G20 summit in London, a former head of Russia’s security services said Monday. A report detailing the surveillance of Medvedev by British and US [...]
June 17, 2013
Moscow to Host Miss Universe 2013 Pageant
MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – The annual Miss Universe competition will be held in Moscow on November 9 the organizers announced this week, the first time the pageant has been held in Russia. It will also be the first return to a European venue for Miss Universe since the 2000 pageant in Cyprus. Donald [...]