News of Osama bin Laden’s death has prompted a deluge of analysis from all over the world. It is not possible to consider each one of them here, nor is it necessary. Instead, it is worth focusing on the two most typical and disturbing trends that seem to be emerging in reaction to bin Laden’s [...]
Archives: 04 May 2011
May 4, 2011
May 4, 2011
Al Qaeda leader to North Caucasus killed
Al Qaeda emissary to the North Caucasus and the chief coordinator of international terrorists in the volatile region was killed in a special operation in Chechnya, the national counter-terrorism committee said on Wednesday. “In the Chechen Republic Abdullah Kurd was a member of the so-called Arab groups of al Qaeda under the command of Khattab, [...]
May 4, 2011
Russia recommends its citizens to abstain from trips to Syria
Though political tensions and violence in Syria have been slowly receding, Russians have been advised to abstain from trips to the country, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Large-scale protests against the regime of President Bashar Asad started in mid-March in the southern city of Deraa and swept through the country, claiming [...]
May 4, 2011
Left at the Crossroads: Doubts and certainties in Peru’s presidential race
From a field of five candidates competing in the first round of Peru’s presidential race in the beginning of April, two emerged as frontrunners: nationalist Army officer Ollanta Humala and former president Alberto Fujimoris’ daughter, Keiko Fujimori. Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa initially declared that the second round on June 5 would be [...]
May 4, 2011
France ‘dragging feet’ in Russian actress handover
The French Justice Ministry is dragging its feet on handing over Russian actress Natalya Zakharova to Russia, who in 2006 was sentenced to three years behind bars for arson of her former French husband’s apartment, her lawyer Alexei Pershin said. On the basis of the Russian-French Convention of 2003, Moscow’s Presnensky Court on April 17, [...]
May 4, 2011
Russia offers NATO 5-year cooperation deal
Russia has offered NATO a mid-term military cooperation plan for a period of three to five years, chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday. “This approach will help define exactly what we want to achieve as a result of our cooperation,” he told reporters in Brussels. “This will enable us to look [...]
May 4, 2011
Restored Samson and the Lion Fountain and other fountains of Peterhof Palace
Add to blog You may place this material on your blog by copying the link. Publication code: Restored Samson and the Lion Fountain and other fountains of Peterhof Palace 20:50 04/05/2011 Fountain season opened at Peterhof Palace on May 1. Preview: Restored Samson and the Lion Fountain and other fountains of Peterhof Palace 20:50 04/05/2011 Fountain season opened at [...]
May 4, 2011
Two Russian rights activists detained in Belarus
Belarusian police on Wednesday detained two Russian rights activists in the country’s capital Minsk. Viktoria Gromova and Lyubov Zakharova were detained at the Belarusian human rights center Vyasna (Spring) shortly before they were to attend a news conference. A police lieutenant who appeared before the reporters said the two were being questioned but gave no [...]
May 4, 2011
Bahraini doctors to face prosecution after aiding anti-government protesters
Bahrain’s Justice Ministry will try in a military court 47 medical professionals for alleged deadly assault and refusal to help persons in need during the months of unrest in the kingdom, local media said on Wednesday. All together, 24 doctors and 23 nurses and paramedics have been charged. The charges against them also include efforts [...]
May 4, 2011
May 4, 2011
Report: Russia Kills Top Al-Qaeda Militant In Chechnya
Russia’s national antiterrorism committee said today that security forces have killed a top Al-Qaeda militant in Chechnya who coordinated foreign rebels in the North Caucasus. The committee said in a statement published on Russian news agencies that the militant, named as Doger Sevdet, was a Turkish national who had taken on the nom-de-guerre of Abdullah [...]
May 4, 2011
Ex-Head of Bank of Moscow Now on Wanted List
Investigators have issued an international arrest warrant for the former head of Bank of Moscow, the country’s No. 5 bank, and his deputy, a Moscow court said Wednesday. Former chief executive Andrei Borodin and his deputy Dmitry Akulinin fled Russia for Britain after a dispute with state-controlled VTB over the latter’s attempts to take control of Bank of Moscow. “An investigator asked the court to arrest Borodin and Akulinin in their absence,” said [...]
May 4, 2011
Novatek Sole Approved Bidder for Yamal
Gas company Novatek, whose board of directors includes Gennady Timchenko, a longtime acquaintance of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, was the only company to successfully submit an application to bid in tenders on four oil and gas properties in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district. “The tender commission found that only Novatek’s application met the requirements,” Anatoly Ledovskikh, head of the Federal Subsoil Resource Use Agency, said Tuesday, Interfax reported. The Yamal [...]
May 4, 2011
Telenor Meets Targets, Sticking With VimpelCom
OSLO — Norwegian group Telenor met forecasts with a 4.7 percent rise in core first-quarter earnings and said it would keep its troubled investment in Russian operator VimpelCom. January-March earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization rose to 7.40 billion kroner ($1.41 billion), compared with a forecast for 7.44 billion in a Reuters poll. Telenor repeated 2011 targets for organic revenue growth of above 5 percent and an [...]