A second Russian Emergency Situations Ministry plane arrived in Moscow from Yemen on Monday with another 27 Russian and CIS citizens on board, bringing the total number evacuated to 175. “At 14:33 [Moscow time, 10:33 GMT] an Il-76 aircraft landed at Domodedovo Airport. Twenty-seven people came on it from Sanaa [the capital of Yemen] to [...]
Archives: 13 June 2011
June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
Russia, China keep talking gas as Chinese president’s visit nears
Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will continue discussions on a major gas supply deal on Tuesday, the Russian energy giant said on Monday after a second straight day of talks in Moscow. “The second round of talks between Gazprom and CNPC on gas deliveries to China, which involved [Gazprom CEO] Alexei Miller and [...]
June 13, 2011
Former Russian colonel, guilty of Chechen war crime, laid to rest
Yury Budanov, the former Russian army colonel who served nine years for the murder of a Chechen woman during the second war in Chechnya, was buried in a Moscow suburb on Monday, four days after he was shot dead in the Russian capital. The funeral service and burial in Khimki, just north of Moscow, were [...]
June 13, 2011
Terek Grozny coach Gullit given ultimatum by Chechnya’s Kadyrov
Dutch football star Ruud Gullit faces the sack as coach of Terek Grozny if the Chechen club does not win its next match, against Amkar in Perm on Tuesday, the club said on its official website. “[Chechen leader] Ramzan Kadyrov has set Ruud Gullit the task of leaving Perm with all three points. In the [...]
June 13, 2011
Main news of June 13
WORLD * The Belarusian authorities must explain to the public what steps they intend to take to combat the serious economic crisis facing the country, the head of the IMF mission in Belarus said. * The Russian head of world chess went to Tripoli over the weekend with instructions to make it clear to Libyan [...]
June 13, 2011
Convicted Murderer Slain In Moscow Buried With Military Honors
DownloadWATCH: Footage taken by RFE/RL’s Russian Service of the funeral of former Russian army colonel and convicted killer Yury Budanov, who was shot dead in Moscow on June 10 KHIMKI, Russia — A Russian military expert says the military honors performed at the funeral today of convicted murderer and former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov [...]
June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
City Police Break Up June 12 Protest
A detained protester shouting in a police car during a Day of Wrath rally on Teatralnaya Ploshchad on Sunday. Police detained 28 opposition activists to prevent them from demonstrating in central Moscow on a national holiday celebrating the country’s emergence as an independent state as the Soviet Union crumbled. This year the June 12 holiday, [...]
June 13, 2011
Khodorkovsky Transferred From Moscow to Undisclosed Prison
Jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from Moscow to a prison camp in an undisclosed location, his lawyers said, decrying the move as an attempt to block a parole hearing. Khodorkovsky’s defense team said he filed again for parole last Tuesday after a Moscow court refused to hear a first request on the grounds that he did not supply the proper documents. Lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant [...]
June 13, 2011
Deputy Minister in Magnitsky Case Fired
President Dmitry Medvedev has fired Alexei Anichin, a deputy interior minister linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The Kremlin provided no reason in a statement announcing the dismissal Saturday. The European Parliament on Dec. 16 urged the European Union to consider a visa ban on 60 Russian officials including Anichin, linked by Magnitsky’s supporters to his death in a Moscow prison in November 2009. Anchin was also [...]
June 13, 2011
Governor to Aeroflot: Hold the Jet
For regular travelers, running late for a flight means missing it. But in the case of Irkutsk Governor Dmitry Mezentsev, it suggests that the whole plane has to wait. An Aeroflot flight to Moscow was forced to wait on the runway in Irkutsk for an hour last week to allow Mezentsev to catch the plane, airline spokesman Andrei Sorgin said on Ekho Moskvy radio on Sunday. The forced delay apparently did not go [...]
June 13, 2011
Gadhafi Plays Chess With Ilyumzhinov
Ilyumzhinov chose black for his match at Gadhafi’s residence in Tripoli. Moscow’s efforts to mediate in Libya’s civil war took a bizarre turn over the weekend when FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov showed up in Tripoli to take on Moammar Gadhafi for a chess party. Ilyumzhinov said Monday that the embattled Libyan leader told him that [...]
June 13, 2011
City to Compensate for Banner Ads
Congratulating the FSB on its holiday with a banner, as this company did, will no longer be possible after August. The city has set aside 80 million rubles ($2.85 million) in compensation for advertisers when the ban on street banners in the center is implemented this summer, the director of Moscow’s department of mass media and advertising said in a news conference Friday. By the end of August, [...]
June 13, 2011
Troitsky Sued, Now by Ex-Kremlin Aide
Troitsky on stage with the group OtZvuki Mu at his benefit concert. A former Kremlin aide has sued renowned music critic and public activist Artemy Troitsky for defamation, Troitsky said, as new evidence emerged that seemingly confirmed his supporters’ fears that he has made enemies in high places. The lawsuit was filed by Vladimir Kiselyov, head of the Federation charity, which drew [...]