Oldest woman found in Georgia? | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Rustavi 2� named the woman as Antisa Khvich-ava and said she was born in 1880, a date it established from documents at the country’s civil registration agency.”
Archives: 10 March 2010
March 10, 2010
March 10, 2010
Brown, pink snow falls in Russia's South | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Brown, pink snow falls in Russia’s South | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Unusually colored brown and pink snow appeared in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, regional meteorologists said on Wednesday.Regional meteorologists said that normal white snow had fallen first, but later it was replaced with rain which colored it in [...]
March 10, 2010
NATO commander backs cooperation with Russia on missile defense | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
NATO commander backs cooperation with Russia on missile defense | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “The new U.S. adoptive approach for European missile defense includes the possibility of using a Russian radar system as part of an integrated system, NATO’s top military officer has said.Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO’s supreme [...]
March 10, 2010
Russian tourists warned about visiting Bangkok | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Russian tourists warned about visiting Bangkok | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russia has cautioned its nationals against visiting Bangkok in the next couple weeks due to upcoming opposition protests in Thailand, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.‘On March 11 through 23, anti-government opposition protests have been planned in Thailand, primarily [...]
March 10, 2010
Russian ecologists organize coalition to cancel Putin's resolution on Baikal mill | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Russian ecologists organize coalition to cancel Putin’s resolution on Baikal mill | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian ecologists organized a coalition to stop Lake Baikal pollution by a pulp and paper mill which was reopened after being suspended for 16 months due to ecological concerns, a statement on the [...]
March 10, 2010
Medvedev orders probe into fatal car accident involving oil executive | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Medvedev orders probe into fatal car accident involving oil executive | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the interior minister to probe last week’s car crash in Moscow involving a LUKoil vice-president that killed two doctors, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.The crash, which provoked public [...]
March 10, 2010
Putin takes charge of technology and innovation commission | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Putin takes charge of technology and innovation commission | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken charge of a government technology and innovation commission designed to boost the country’s modernization, according to a resolution posted on the government’s web site on Wednesday.Russia considers the development [...]
March 10, 2010
Indian nuclear energy chief: Russia has an advantage: it has a reactor, others can only show papers | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novo
Indian nuclear energy chief: Russia has an advantage: it has a reactor, others can only show papers | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “RIA Novosti’s correspondent in India Yevgeny Bezeka talks to the chairman of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Srikumar Banerjee about prospects of cooperation between the two [...]
March 10, 2010
Russian lawmaker questions plans for Mistral purchase | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
Russian lawmaker questions plans for Mistral purchase | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Plans to buy an expensive helicopter carrier from France could hinder the development of Russia’s defense industry, a Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.The Russian military has announced that it was negotiating the purchase of a Mistral-class amphibious [...]