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A spokesman for Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry says nine people drowned after a pleasure boat sank in the Moskva River. Authorities says a total of 16 passengers and crew members were on board the ship when it collided with a barge shortly after midnight. Seven people were reportedly rescued. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency quoted [...]

31/7 Tass 156 SOFIA, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Personnel of the LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas are preparing for mass protests due to the halt of the refinery, head of the Bulgarian petrochemical trade union Minko Minkov told the Bulgarian national radio. The workers demand a meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his explanations. “The [...]

31/7 Tass 190 MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Dangerous maneuvering and overload are the main causes of a cutter’s collision with a barge in the Moskva River last night, a police source told Itar-Tass. “There is a number of main theories, among them sailing along the fairway, overload – the number of passengers was much [...]

31/7 Tass 189 MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Twenty-eight people asked for medical aid after the Sunday hurricane in Blagoveshchensk, Amur region, the Amur regional emergency situations department told Itar-Tass. “Six of them were hospitalized. One of the patients died at hospital,” the source said. The hurricane disrupted power supply in three districts of the [...]

31/7 Tass 196 MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Moscow police have detained several dozens of participants in an action in support of Article 31 of the Russian constitution, who started an unauthorized march from Triumfalnaya Square to Pushkin Square. The protesters started their action with a sit-in on Triumfalnaya Square. About 50 people divided into [...]

BRUSSELS, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is the only guarantee of regional stability, Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin on Itar-Tass on Sunday. The U.S. Senate resolution on the ‘occupation’ of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is “a usual spit on Russia, which will have no practical results,” [...]

31/7 Tass 183 BRUSSELS, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is the only guarantee of regional stability, Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin on Itar-Tass on Sunday. The U.S. Senate resolution on the ‘occupation’ of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is “a usual spit on Russia, which will have [...]

31/7 Tass 197 KRASNODAR, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Ninety-nine passengers of the bankrupt Continent airline were transported from Anapa to St. Petersburg on Sunday, a source at the city transport department told Itar-Tass. A Yamal flight took another 87 passengers to Krasnoyarsk, the Basel Aero managing company said. In all, almost 270 Continent passengers are [...]

31/7 Tass MOSCOW, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— The police have detained 43 participants in an unauthorized march from Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square to Pushkin Square, Andrei Galiabekov from the city police department said. In his words, the police detained no one during the sit-in in Triumfalnaya Square in support of Article 31 of the constitution. “However, [...]

31/7 Tass 150 BALTIYSK, Kaliningrad region, July 31 (Itar-Tass) —— Kaliningrad Governor Nikolai Tsukanov has proposed the drafting of a law, which will give long-term preferences to the Russian westernmost exclave. Two effective laws give tax and customs preferences to the region, Tsukanov told President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday. “The validity of the law, which [...]

A pleasure boat that sunk on the Moscow River after its collision with a cargo barge was brought to surface on Sunday, On July 31, 2011, at about 1:30 a.m., a small-sized vessel collided with a barge in the Moscow River across the Luzhniki sports center. As a result, the vessel sank with nine passengers [...]

Moscow police on Sunday have arrested up to 40 participants of an unsanctioned rally, when they attempted to march on Tverskaya street. Some 100 people took part in the rally. Two groups, consisting of 15-20 people each, were seating on the ground, holding each others hands and shouting slogans. At the end some of the [...]

One person has been killed and twenty eight others injured as a powerful tornado hit the Russian far-eastern city of Blagoveshchensk. The tornado was so powerful that it tore the roofs from houses, turned over vehicles, flattened trees and smashed windows in several buildings.  Local authorities have introduced a state of emergency in the city, [...]

Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to carrying out two deadly terror attacks in Norway, reportedly bought the equipment and materials needed to carry them out via the popular shopping site eBay. According to a report by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, which investigated the history of Anders Breivik’s eBay purchases, the suspected terrorist bought 500 [...]

McLaren’s Jenson Button has claimed his second win of the season in his 200th career race at a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix, which was won and lost on tire strategy. Button changed tires at his third pit stop before rain fell, then passed team-mate Lewis Hamilton to take the lead and win at the same [...]