Russian investigators from the city of Kurgan filed criminal charges against a executive officer who allegedly used his company’s money to purchase an Honorary Citizen of Russia Order, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Tuesday. Oleg Timkin, the CEO of Ogonyok, Inc. in Kurgan, has reportedly transferred 147,000 rubles ($5,254) of his company’s money [...]
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May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011
200 tons of banned pesticides containing mercury found near central Russian village
Residents of the village of Rozhdestvenskoye in the Voronezh Region discovered 200 metric tons of prohibited pesticides containing mercury close to their houses, the local branch of Russia’s agricultural watchdog said on Tuesday. Village residents complained of sickness caused by a strong chemical smell coming from an abandoned silo pit, which was located only 1.5 [...]
May 31, 2011
Vanuatu recognizes Abkhazia independence
The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has become the fifth country to recognize Abkhazia’s independence, Abkhaz Foreign Minister Maxim Gvindzhiya said on Tuesday. “We exchanged notes on diplomatic relations and signed an agreement,” Gvindzhiya said. Russia recognized Abkhazia and another former Georgian republic, South Ossetia, in 2008. The move followed a five-day war with [...]
May 31, 2011
Another Russian tourist dies of alcohol poisoning in Turkey
Another Russian tourist died of alcohol poisoning in Turkey on Tuesday, the spokesman for Russia’s state tourism watchdog said on Tuesday. A group of Russian tourists in the popular Turkish Aegean resort of Bodrum were reported to have been hospitalized over the weekend with symptoms of severe alcohol poisoning after a yacht tour organized by [...]
May 31, 2011
VTB Head of Europe says IPO withdrawal no reason for concern
LONDON, May 31 (RIA Novosti, Natasha Doff) – Head of Europe for Russian state-owned bank VTB, Vladimir Sokolov, dismissed concern about a string of recent stock market listing cancellations in an interview with RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport dropped its planned initial public offering (IPO) in London on Monday over possible concerns that [...]
May 31, 2011
Russia Arrests Suspected Politkovskaya Assassin
Russian authorities have arrested the fugitive suspected killer of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Lawyer Saidakhmet Arsamerzayev said the suspect, Rustam Makhmudov, was arrested on the night of May 30 in Chechnya. Arsamerzayev said Makhmudov is expected to be transferred to Moscow. Makhmudov is suspected of being the gunman who murdered Politkovskaya in 2006, and had eluded [...]
May 31, 2011
The Arrest of R. Mladic From the Perspective of International Law
This story by Dr. Alexander Mezyaev, International Department of Governance Academy (Kazan`), Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. The May 26 arrest of former Serbian military leader Gen. R. Mladic evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to [...]
May 31, 2011
Russia offers to look into deaths of Gaddafi relatives
Russia is ready to send a team of experts to Libya to check reports of the possible death of Muammar Gaddafi’s son and three grandchildren, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Tuesday. “If there is a formal request, Russia would be ready to send qualified experts to Tripoli,” he said. “It is important to [...]
May 31, 2011
KamAZ 2010 net loss falls 66 pct to 763 mln rbls
Russia’s largest truck maker KamAZ’s 2010 net loss to IFRS fell 66 percent year on year to 763 million rubles ($27.25 million), the company said on Tuesday. KamAZ said revenue grew 21 percent in 2010 to 73.77 billion rubles, EBITDA rose 420 percent to 4.31 billion rubles while net debt fell 16 percent to 12.25 [...]
May 31, 2011
Politkovskaya’s suspected killer detained in Chechnya
Rustam Makhmudov, the suspected killer of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was detained in Chechnya on Tuesday, his lawyer said. Makhmudov is currently being taken to Moscow. Politkovskaya, a fierce Kremlin critic, was shot dead in her apartment block four years ago. Her murder, like many other killings of reporters and attacks on journalists in Russia [...]
May 31, 2011
Serbian war crimes court to consider Mladic appeal
Serbia’s war crimes court will consider former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his transfer to The Hague to face charges of genocide, his lawyer said on Tuesday. His lawyer also said Mladic is so sick he may not live to see the start of his trial at the UN war crimes tribunal. [...]
May 31, 2011
Specifications of the Lynx armored car
Add to blog You may place this material on your blog by copying the link. Publication code: Specifications of the Lynx armored car 15:04 31/05/2011 The LMV M65 Lynx is a four-wheel-drive multirole vehicle designed for accomplishing the most diverse military tasks of the Russian Armed Forces Preview: Specifications of the Lynx armored car 15:04 31/05/2011 The LMV M65 [...]
May 31, 2011
English FA proposes postponing FIFA presidential vote
England’s Football Association (FA) has proposed postponing FIFA presidential elections scheduled for June 1 amid a corruption scandal involving leading officials. FIFA president Sepp Blatter is the only candidate after the withdrawal of Mohamed Bin Hammam from the race. The FA recently chose to abstain from the vote over claims of corruption inside world football’s [...]
May 31, 2011
High hopes for cannabis house
High on a hill, this looks like many other examples of elegant modern architecture. But this house is built with a special ingredient, hemp.This is one of Africa’s first modular hemp houses and is a pilot project that could take off.