Putin Will Dance at Dresden Ball | News | The Moscow Times: “The Dresden Opera Ball will be brought to St. Petersburg next fall, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will dance the opening waltz, a German media report said Friday. The decision to stage a rendition of the Semperoper Ball in Putin’s hometown came after [...]
Archives: 18 January 2010
January 18, 2010
January 18, 2010
Medvedev’s Photo Outdoes Putin’s Painting | News | The Moscow Times
Medvedev’s Photo Outdoes Putin’s Painting | News | The Moscow Times: “President Dmitry Medvedev’s photo fetched 51 million rubles ($1.7 million) at a charity auction in St. Petersburg on Saturday, surpassing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s record for a painting sold at the same event last year. The signed, black-and-white aerial photograph in a silver frame, [...]
January 18, 2010
Tymoshenko, Yanukovych Headed for Feb. 7 Runoff Vote | News | The Moscow Times
Tymoshenko, Yanukovych Headed for Feb. 7 Runoff Vote | News | The Moscow Times: “Ukraine faces a Feb. 7 runoff vote between opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and populist Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko after a presidential election produced no outright winner, official results showed on Monday. The election will define how Ukraine, a former Soviet republic [...]
January 18, 2010
Noghaideli party: Saakashvili is dragging Georgia into another scandal – News – GeorgiaTimes.info
Noghaideli party: Saakashvili is dragging Georgia into another scandal – News – GeorgiaTimes.info: “Party of ex-PM Noghaideli accused President Saakashvili of dragging the country in another international scandal. MP Petre Mamradze, the For United Georgia movement representative, explained it’s connected with over 2000 Georgians sent as monitors for presidential elections in Ukraine. He mentioned the [...]
January 18, 2010
Opposition: Georgia is turning into totalitarian state – News – GeorgiaTimes.info
Opposition: Georgia is turning into totalitarian state – News – GeorgiaTimes.info: “Nino Burjanadze, the Democratic Movement-United Georgia pro-opposition movement leader, says political, social and economic situation in the country deteriorated significantly over latest 6 months. On January 16th, at the meeting with Micheline Calmy-Rey, the CE Committee of Ministers chairperson, the ex-Speaker said the rule [...]
January 18, 2010
Opposition: Saakashvili sent his supporters to Ukraine – News – GeorgiaTimes.info
Opposition: Saakashvili sent his supporters to Ukraine – News – GeorgiaTimes.info: “Georgian opposition has own opinion about the situation with Georgian monitors at presidential elections in Ukraine. According to Salome Zourabishvili, ex-Foreign Minister of Georgia, Way of Georgia leader, said that first, in this way Mikheil Saakashvili attracts attention of the U.S. administration, ‘bargaining with [...]
January 18, 2010
Yanukovich’s part cannot rule out introduction of visa regime with Georgia – News – GeorgiaTimes.info
Yanukovich’s part cannot rule out introduction of visa regime with Georgia – News – GeorgiaTimes.info: “Incident with Georgian ‘monitors’ can lead to introduction of visa regime with the country, said Boris Kolesnikov, one of the leaders of the Party of the Regions – proUA. ‘Ukrainian government is struggling with opposition by the forces of a [...]
January 18, 2010
Georgian monitors are leaving Ukraine – News – GeorgiaTimes.info
Georgian monitors are leaving Ukraine – News – GeorgiaTimes.info: “Most Georgian monitors, who arrived in Ukraine last week to monitor presidential elections, today will return to Motherland, stated Levan Tarkhnishvili, the ex-head of Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, over phone, from Kyiv – Rustavi 2. He said this decision must ease ‘tension’, accompanying Georgian monitors [...]