Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend the ceremony to bid his last farewell to Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh who has died after a surgery at a Moscow clinic on Sunday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “Putin will definitely pay a tribute to Bagapsh. His working schedule is being revised now,” Peskov said. Bagapsh, 62, [...]
Archives: 29 May 2011
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Mladic’s supporters hold mass rally, clashes with police reported
Thousands of Serbian nationalists holding a rally in Belgrad against the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic Mladic’s arrest have clashed with the police, Serbian RTS TV channel reported. Several thousands of people took part in the protest under the slogan “Stop betrayal!” in support of Mladic, who is facing trial [...]
May 29, 2011
Mongolian president to visit Russia
Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is arriving in Russia on an official visit on Monday. Elbegdorj’s visit is taking place on President Dmitry Medvedev’s invitation. The Mongolian leader will stay in Russia until June 3. The Russian president visited Mongolia in August 2009. The visit saw the signing of a strategic partnership declaration and a memorandum [...]
May 29, 2011
Lukashenko Outburst Endangers Bailout Loan
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has threatened to expel Russian journalists for sowing “hysteria” about a deepening financial crisis, prompting a stern warning from the Kremlin that a bailout loan he desperately needs might be canceled. Lukashenko ominously criticized some Belarussian journalists working for foreign organizations, ordering the government at a meeting Friday to ”make sure those media organizations no longer work on our territory.” But he [...]
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Over 30 Arrested at Gay Protests
Police arrested more than 30 people trying to hold two unauthorized gay rights demonstrations in central Moscow on Saturday. Opponents of gay rights scuffled with the demonstrators and with police. A police spokesman, Maxim Kolosvetov, said 18 gay activists and 14 opponents were arrested. Activists tried to hold a demonstration at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin and later outside the Mayor’s Office on Tverskaya Ulitsa. The attempted demonstration [...]
May 29, 2011
Vehicle Inspections Get One-Year Grace Period
The traffic police have granted a one-year grace period for vehicle safety inspections, beginning June 4. The Interior Ministry’s road safety department said owners of cars, trucks weighing 3.5 tons or less, trailers and motorcycles whose technical inspection certificate expires in 2011 will be given another 12 months to undergo the procedure as part of an overall revamp of the inspection process. Major General Vladimir Kuzin, [...]
May 29, 2011
2 Inmates Hospitalized in Hostage Crisis
Two inmates armed with scissors and knives seized six nurses at a maximum-security prison in an hours-long hostage drama that ended with the police opening fire on them as they headed toward their getaway car. The inmates, both in their 20s and serving sentences of more than 20 years for murder and other felonies, took the six women hostage in the hospital of the Pskov region prison on Friday, news [...]
May 29, 2011
Official, 73, Steps Down Over Sex Scandal
The 73-year-old former mayor of Ulyanovsk stepped down Friday as chairman of the local Public Chamber after a 29-year-old United Russia activist accused him of sexual harassment. Yevgenia Milanskaya wrote on her LiveJournal blog that Sergei Yermakov hugged her, touched her breasts and tried to kiss her in his office. She said Yermakov, who served [...]
May 29, 2011
Caspian Sea Has Many Sides
ASTRAKHAN — The city of Astrakhan is jockeying to gain the ”Capital of the Caspian” crown for Russia as the states bordering the world’s largest enclosed body of water look to boost mutual trade despite international foot-dragging over long-running territorial disputes. “Astrakhan is on the border of Europe and Asia,” the city’s mayor, Sergei Bozhenov, told the annual Business Caspian conference Friday. “It unites the cultures of Europe and the East.” The Astrakhan region’s foreign [...]
May 29, 2011
Gazprom Considers E.On for South Stream
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller discussed new “major” projects with E.On on Friday, after he suggested that the German company could join the South Stream pipeline project that will run from Russia to Europe under the Black Sea. E.On is part of a Gazprom-led effort to build Nord Stream, a similar pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Miller traveled to Zurich to meet E.On chief Johannes Teyssen and its gas [...]