French special taskforce policemen have entered the kindergarten where an armed young man still kept five children hostage in eastern France on Monday, according to radio channel France Info.
Archives: 13 December 2010
December 13, 2010
December 13, 2010
Wal-Mart Closing Moscow Office…
What a wonderful little news item for this Monday… Wal-Mart Stores Closing Its Moscow Office It seems that Wal-Mart has pulled out of the attempt to enter the Russian market after Wal-Mart which been in acquisition talks with discount chain Kopeika failed. Kopeika was bought earlier this month by X5 Retail Group, Russia’s largest supermarket [...]
December 13, 2010
Coffee and a Putin Quote…
Sveta found a great quote for me today… “Тот, кто не жалеет о разрушении СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА, у того нет сердца, а тот, кто хочет его воссоздания в прежнем виде, у того нет головы” Владимир ПУТИН Translated: “Anyone who does not regret the destruction of the Soviet Union, has no heart, and whoever wants to recreate [...]
December 13, 2010
Corruption, not nationalism behind latest Moscow riots…
Russia Today: (Link) Mass riots that started in the center of Moscow on Saturday must be blamed on corrupt police rather than nationalist sentiment in society, Russian observers and experts agreed. A gathering of thousands of football fans to mourn their comrade killed in a street fight with men from the Northern Caucasus, ended in [...]
December 13, 2010
Russian News Bits… (12/13/2010)
Those behind violence in Moscow will be dealt with – Medvedev: President Dmitry Medvedev has posted a strong warning in his Twitter blog, vowing to deal with all those behind the riots that rocked the center of Moscow on Saturday, prompted by the killing of a football fan earlier… Go-ahead to START: The US Senate [...]
December 13, 2010
The USA is Becoming Another Russia!
Problem: Our stimulus money gave a $141,002 federal grant to Montana State University to fund a six-week, student trip to Hangzhou, China, to study dinosaur eggs and other fossils. http://beforeitsnews.com/story/306/262/Stimulus_money_funds_dinosaur_egg_trip_to_China.html Opinion: Congress works for the Mafia and some Godfathers kid wanted to go to China and study dinosaurs. All levels of government have become like [...]
December 13, 2010
Councils ‘face average 4.4% cut’
Councils in England await news of funding cuts from central government, which the coalition says will average 4.4% this year.
December 13, 2010
Russian military to receive 1,300 types of weaponry by 2020
The Russian Armed Forces will receive over 1,300 types of weaponry in line with a draft arms procurement program until 2020, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
December 13, 2010
Humanoid robots hit the stage in Warsaw
The world’s first ever humanoid robot theater has opened in Warsaw. So far the performances have been a huge success. The robots starred in the play Prince Ferrix and Princess Crystal, based on a story by Stanislaw Lem. Famous Polish actors recorded the sound for the robots, who were supported in the enactment by just [...]
December 13, 2010
EU seeks outside funds for Eastern Partnership program
Part of the funding for the Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) must come from outside the EU budget, the final document of a meeting of EaP foreign ministers in Brussels said.
December 13, 2010
Interethnic hatred threat to national stability – Medvedev
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed police to punish the perpetrators of a recent anti-ethnic riot in the capital, which he named as a threat to national security.
December 13, 2010
Somali pirates abduct 24 Filipino sailors
Another batch of 24 Filipino crewmen of a Liberian-owned bulk cargo vessel were seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean over the weekend, the European Union Naval Force said Monday.
December 13, 2010
Explosion heard in Gwadar port, SW Pakistan
An explosion was heard in Gwadar, a newly-built port in southwest Pakistan’s Balochistan on Monday, local sources said, but no casualties have been reported.
December 13, 2010
China, India expect to sign series of trade deals
China and India are expected to sign a series of economic and trade agreements during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India, a Chinese trade official confirmed at a press briefing Monday.