St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko has agreed to stand for the post of speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament.
Archives: 28 June 2011
June 28, 2011
June 28, 2011
Belarusian electricity debt
Russia expects Belarus to repay its 1.2-billion ruble ($43 million) electricity debt soon to resume normal power supplies to the ex-Soviet republic, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Tuesday.
June 28, 2011
Russia expects Belarus to pay electricity debt soon
Russia expects Belarus to repay its 1.2-billion ruble ($43 million) electricity debt soon to resume normal power supplies to the ex-Soviet republic, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Tuesday. ‘We expect payments will be made soon and electricity supplies will resume,” Sechin said. Russia’s electricity export monopoly Inter RAO said Russia would cut off [...]
June 28, 2011
Fanged frog and other new species found in New Guinea
Fanged frog and other new species found in New Guinea 18:15 28/06/2011 Over a thousand new species were discovered on the island of New Guinea between 1998 and 2008, according to a report by the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The second largest in the world, the island is home to, among others, fanged frogs and [...]
June 28, 2011
Watchdog demands lower fuel prices after oil stock release
Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has ordered domestic oil companies to cut fuel prices in the wake of the decision by the International Energy Agency to release oil stocks to bring global oil prices down, the competition watchdog’s head Igor Artemyev said on Tuesday. “The International Energy Agency has released strategic stocks and today we have [...]
June 28, 2011
Police use tear gas against protestors in Athens
Greek riot police on Tuesday had to use tear gas against a group of protestors in downtown Athens, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. Tear gas was used after a group of young people hurled stones at police outside the Greek parliament building, where lawmakers are to debate the adoption of an unpopular austerity plan. A [...]
June 28, 2011
Culture minister steps in over Taganka Theater spat
Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev on Tuesday called on actors from Moscow’s Taganka Theater to make peace with director Yury Lyubimov after a conflict over pay. Lyubimov, 93, said he was considering leaving the theater he has headed for nearly half a century after a dispute over pay erupted during a tour of the Czech [...]
June 28, 2011
Russia’s First Lady Svetlana Medvedev attends record-breaking lacemaking workshop in Vologda
Russia’s First Lady Svetlana Medvedev attends record-breaking lacemaking workshop in Vologda 20:26 28/06/2011 Russia’s First Lady, Svetlana Medvedev, works the lace-making bobbins at the First International Lacemaking Fair in Vologda on June 23-25, 2011.
June 28, 2011
Russia may work with UN, AU on Libyan crisis solution
Russia is ready to cooperate with the United Nations and the African Union to forge a political solution to the Libyan crisis, the Russian president’s envoy to Africa said on Tuesday. “Russia is set to work jointly with the African Union and the UN to alleviate the Libyan crisis, to end the fighting and kick-start [...]
June 28, 2011
Maria Sharapova reaches Wimbledon semifinals
Russia’s Maria Sharapova defeated Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova 6-1, 6-1 to advance to the Wimbledon semifinals on Tuesday. Former Wimbledon champion Sharapova will meet Germany’s Sabine Lisicki in Thursday’s last four.
June 28, 2011
June 28, 2011
Medvedev, Prokhorov, Kudrin, And The Thaw
The Power Vertical President Dmitry Medvedev meets with Mikhail Prokhorov (right) at the Gorki presidential residence on June 27. The editorial in Monday’s “Nezavisimaya gazeta” left little room for ambiguity. Over the past several days there have been ample signs that changes in how Russia is governed are indeed in the works. Whether these will [...]
June 28, 2011
New Kiosk Model Unveiled in Downtown Moscow
The first of a new model of kiosks was installed on Tverskaya Ulitsa on the night of June 23. “The ‘Classic’ model kiosk set up on Tverskaya is a prototype, costing about 420,000 rubles [$14,820]. This price includes the frame, internal electric equipment and installation. It’s manufactured with advanced composites that do not rust,” the manufacturer’s spokesman, Yevgeny Kobzar, told reporters, according to RIA-Novosti. The Moscow architecture [...]
June 28, 2011
$3.5Bln Covers Bank of Moscow Losses
Former Bank of Moscow head Andrei Borodin has been accused of related-party lending in real estate deals. VTB will inject up to 100 billion rubles ($3.5 billion) into Bank of Moscow to cover loan losses, Interfax quoted a source close to VTB as saying Monday. The bailout would come as part of a 250 billion ruble rescue package for Bank of Moscow, Russia’s No. [...]