The creation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin-backed nationwide People’s Front is not an electoral move of the ruling United Russia party, but a part of a long-term program, United Russia leader and lower house speaker Boris Gryzlov said on Saturday. On May 6, Putin called at the United Russia party conference for the creation [...]
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May 14, 2011
May 14, 2011
Iranian Bushehr safe and secure
Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant operates in safe and secure condition, ISNA news agency quoted on Saturday the Head of Iranian nuclear safety system center Naser Rastkhah as saying. “Bushehr nuclear facility is different from those in Russia, since it obeys standards of both Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and we have frequently [...]
May 14, 2011
Britain, France seek for sanctions against Syrian president
Britain and France are seeking to impose a EU travel ban and asset freeze on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and four officials, close to him, Syrian D-press news web site reported on Saturday. Last week Britain and France expressed their concern about the EU’s move to impose sanctions on 13 Syrian authorities, except Assad himself. [...]
May 14, 2011
Belarusian court jails ex-presidential candidate for 5 years
A Belarusian court sentenced on Saturday a former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov to five years in prison for organizing mass unrest. Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister and leader of Belarus’ Christian Democratic Party, stood as a candidate against “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenko and was one of seven candidates detained after the December 19 [...]
May 14, 2011
Finnish Publisher Vows To Continue Chechnya Work After Acquittal
The publisher of a website affiliated with North Caucasus insurgents is vowing to continue his work after being acquitted by a Finnish court on May 9 on charges of illegally bringing Chechen asylum seekers to the Nordic country. Finnish entrepreneur and civil-liberties activist Mikael Storsjo had admitted to arranging plane tickets for Chechen refugees to [...]
May 14, 2011
Police detain 2 Tablighi Jamaat extremists in southern Russia
Police in southern Russia has detained two brothers who belong to the transnational extremist Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat banned in Russia, local police said on Saturday. Police have been hunting down Islamic extremists in Russia, which has been rocked with terrorist bomb attacks ever since the Kremlin-led campaigns in Islamic Chechnya in the 1990s. “They [...]
May 14, 2011
Afghanistan wants to join 6-nation Shanghai alliance as observer
Afghanistan has applied for an observer status in the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which will consider the application at its summit in June, Russia’s foreign minister said on Saturday. The security alliance, which includes Russia, China and former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is gathering for its annual 15th summit in [...]
May 14, 2011
Europe missile shield must be safe for Russia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a letter to the Russia-NATO Council asking for guarantees that the European missile defense project would be safe for Russia, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday. The U.S. has said it plans to deploy a missile shield over Europe to provide defense against the ‘rogue states’ such as Iran, [...]
May 14, 2011
Yemen opposition declares week of wider riots to oust president
Opposition in Yemen has announced it would start a week of decisive actions seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al-Jazeera said on Saturday. From 140 to 300 people are estimated to have been killed in Yemen’s nationwide protests against the unpopular president Ali Abdullah Saleh, which have been ongoing since late January. A member [...]
May 14, 2011
New Russian radar to be tested near Kaliningrad by end of 2011
Russia’s Space Forces commander said on Saturday that a new radar being built near the Baltic port of Kaliningrad would be tested by the end of the year. “The westernmost radar Voronezh DM in the Kaliningrad Region may be tested by the end of this year,” Gen. Oleg Ostapenko told a military council of the [...]
May 14, 2011
Mubarak’s wife in hospital after news of detention
The wife of Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak, Suzanne, has been taken to an intensive care unit with severe chest pains shortly after hearing the news that her detention had been ordered. The 70-year-old former first lady was questioned on Friday over suspicions that she used her husband’s position to illegally amass wealth. Shortly after the [...]
May 14, 2011
2011 World Ice Hockey Championships
The head coach of Russia’s national ice hockey team, Vyacheslav Bykov, said the Finnish team deserved the victory in its clash with Russia at the IIHF World Championship semifinal.
May 14, 2011
Russian coach says Finland deserved victory in ice hockey semifinals
The head coach of Russia’s national ice hockey team, Vyacheslav Bykov, said the Finnish team deserved the victory in its clash with Russia at the IIHF World Championship semifinal. Russia, given high odds to win by bookmakers all around the world, was eliminated 0-3 by Finland in semifinal on Friday. “Undoubtedly, we were exhausted – [...]
May 14, 2011
Poland about to complete its report on Smolensk plane crash
A Polish commission, conducting its own probe into causes of presidential plane crash in western Russia, is about to complete its report, Interior Minister Jerzy Miller said. Miller, who also heads the commission, said that the analysis of the causes of the crash has already been completed. “We are now at the stage of editing,” [...]