Russia is prepared, together with other countries, to work on countering missile threats, says President Dmitry Medvedev. He said
Archives: November 2010
November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010
Prominent Russian poetess dies at 73
Bella Akhmadulina, one of the most prominent and influential members of the postwar generation of Soviet poets, died in
November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010
US court sentences Somali pirate to 30 years behind bars
A US federal court in Norfolk, Virgina, has sentenced a Somali man to 30 years in prison for his role in attacking a US naval ship earlier this year. Jama Idle Ibrahim was sentenced after he was found guilty of attacking an American warship near the Somalia coast in April.
November 30, 2010
Iran agrees to resume nuclear talks
Iran has agreed to resume nuclear talks with the six-nation group of mediators – the US, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany. The meetings will be held in Geneva on the sixth and seventh of next month, France Presse reports, citing the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010
WikiLeaks’ Assange offered asylum in Ecuador
Ecuador on Monday offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange residency in the South American country. Assange, a 39-year-old Australian citizen facing rape and sexual molestation charges in Sweden, accuses the Pentagon of being behind his ongoing persecution in retaliation for the wealth of classified Afghan and Iraq war files the whistleblower website published last week.
November 30, 2010
Russia’s youth takes center stage in Medvedev’s address
The wellbeing of Russia’s youth is crucial to the future stability of the country, President Dmitry Medvedev said in his annual address to the nation on Tuesday.
November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010
Main points of Medvedev’s state of the nation address
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his third state of the nation address to both houses of parliament in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Tuesday.
November 30, 2010
Conference of the Russian-Chinese section of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Shanghai
The Russian-Chinese section of the Valdai International Discussion Club, entitled “Regional stability through harmonious development: Russia and China in the new world architecture,” was held on November 25-26, 2010, in Shanghai.
November 30, 2010
Planet’s vulnerable places: Cancun forests under threat of extinction
Mexico’s Cancun is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference on November 29-December 10. Ever since the popular Cancun resort was founded over 40 years ago, many mangrove forests have been destroyed as a result of human intervention. Scientists believe that the mangroves could help slow climate change and are desperate to save them.
November 30, 2010
Medvedev threatens penalties for slacking officials
Speaking at his annual address to parliament on Tuesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to prepare proposals on penalizing officials for not performing their duties in a timely manner.
November 30, 2010
Child rescued from washing machine
A boy had a lucky escape on Sunday after he was released from the drum of a washing machine in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, in northern China.