At least seven people have died with another 22 injured in a car accident in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, local police representative said. “The accident occurred at about 16:25 Moscow time [13:25 GMT] in Karabudahtenskiy district of Dagestan,” the spokesman said. “Because of yet unclear reasons Gazelle mini-bus collided with VAZ-21014.” As a [...]
Archives: 28 May 2011
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011
Over 30 gay parade supporters, opponents arrested in central Moscow
Over 30 gay parade supporters and opponents were arrested on Saturday, the city’s police representative said. Police in Moscow said on Friday they would enforce the city’s ban on a protest by gay rights campaigners in the Russian capital. Nikolai Alexeyev, Russia’s leading gay rights activist and head of the Moscow Gay Pride organization, has [...]
May 28, 2011
Two militants eliminated in Dagestan
Two suspected militants were killed in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Saturday, a local police source said. “Security forces… found a militants’ shelter, with six explosive devices and a number of components for their manufacture,” the spokesman said adding that not far from the shelter they noticed two people trying to escape. They [...]
May 28, 2011
Latvian President announces dissolution of parliament
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers announced on Saturday a dissolution of the country’s parliament (Saeima), the country’s TV and radio stations reported. Zalters accused the parliament of lying and maintaining interests of oligarchs. Earlier Saeima rejected Latvian anti-corruption office to search a house of an MP Ainars Slesers, suspected of corrupt dealings. He called it “an [...]
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011
Govt. re-establishes privileged export duty on Vankor oil
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a resolution to re-establish privileged export duty regime for oil from the massive Vankor field in east Siberia, the government website said on Saturday. The government prolonged the privileged export duty regime for Vankor in October until May when it was canceled. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in March [...]
May 28, 2011
West to have 80,000 cruise missiles by 2020
Russian military experts forecast that Western nations will have 80,000 cruise missile by 2020, a deputy commander of the Russian General Staff said on Saturday. “We expect Western countries to have at least 80,000 cruise missiles by 2020, including about 2,000 of them nuclear-powered,” Gen. Igor Sheremet said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy [...]
May 28, 2011
Lavrov reiterates Russian position against UN Security Council resolution on Syria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated Russian position against a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, the ministry said in a statement. Syrian unrest began after a group of schoolchildren were arrested in March for writing anti-government slogans on walls. Protests against their arrest soon swept across the country and continue despite urgent political [...]
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011
Mladic urges public to refrain from bloodshed, unrest
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic detained in Serbia for war crimes has urged public to refrain from bloodshed and unrest, Serbian news agency Tanjug cited his lawyer Milos Saljic as saying. The former general has been accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for playing a key role in ethnic cleansing during Bosnian [...]
May 28, 2011
Arrest of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic detained in Serbia for war crimes has urged public to refrain from bloodshed and unrest, Serbian news agency Tanjug cited his lawyer Milos Saljic as saying.
May 28, 2011
At least 7 die, 4 injured in car in Russia’s Dagestan
At least seven people have died with another four have been injured in a car accident in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, local police representative said. “The accident occurred at about 16:25 Moscow time [13:25 GMT] in Karabudahtenskiy district of Dagestan,” the spokesman said. “Because of yet unclear reasons Gazelle mini-bus collided with VAZ-21014. [...]
May 28, 2011
Clashes, Arrests As Gay-Rights Activists Rally In Moscow Despite Ban
Dozens of people have been detained after gay-rights activists and opponents of an unauthorized gay-pride march clashed in the Russian capital, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Activists from Russia, Europe, and the United States had planned two gay-rights advocacy events near the Kremlin despite a vow by the authorities to arrest anyone who showed up after [...]