Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday ordered Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to submit in three days a report on the implementation of state defense orders for 2011. Leading missile designer Yury Solomonov said in an interview with Russia’s Kommersant daily that the 2011 state defense order was in jeopardy partly because the Defense Ministry had [...]
Archives: 06 July 2011
July 6, 2011
July 6, 2011
“Something awesome” from Facebook
The world’s largest social network Facebook will launch a new feature today, which the site’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckenberg, described as “something awesome”. Representatives of Facebook have been keeping details secret, fueling the heated online debate regarding the nature of the new service. According to the technology blog TechCruch, the network is likely to [...]
July 6, 2011
Tymoshenko expelled from courtroom over ‘insult’
The judge presiding over hearings into abuse of office charges against former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko ordered her to leave the courtroom on Wednesday after ruling that she had insulted him. Tymoshenko described the judge, Rodion Kireyev, as a “non-human” after police expelled opposition lawmakers Mikhailo Kosiyev and Yevgeny Suslov from the courtroom for “violating [...]
July 6, 2011
Animal Tenderness: Kisses in the animal world
Animal Tenderness: Kisses in the animal world 19:10 06/07/2011 The International Kissing Day is celebrated on July 6. As dictionaries explain, a kiss is a sign of love, friendship, respect, form of greeting, or an expression of attraction. Animals are inclined to display their love and tenderness through the act as much as humans.
July 6, 2011
Pyeongchang to host 2018 Winter Olympics
The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Olympic Games at a vote in Durban, South Africa. The city beat rival bids from the French city of Annecy and Germany’s Munich in the first round of voting by the International Olympic Committee. Pyeongchang’s bid team included South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The Winter [...]
July 6, 2011
Photography Festival Comes to Moscow
Ahead of a major international photo event – the Portfolio Review, which will take place for the first time in Moscow at the end of August, Andrei Zolotov, Jr., chief editor of RussiaProfile.org speaks to its co-founders – Chairman of FotoFest International Frederick Baldwin and its Artistic Director Wendy Watriss. They discuss how the world [...]
July 6, 2011
Russia, NATO must settle ‘missile shield’ issue soon
Russia and NATO still have time to resolve the controversy over the future European missile defense network, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday. “Our current dialogue on missile defense is very difficult, but we must finally either agree or disagree [on the issue] by the end of this year,” Rogozin said in [...]
July 6, 2011
What is more important to Russians?
Add to blog You may place this material on your blog by copying the link. Publication code: What is more important to Russians? 20:00 06/07/2011 The Public Opinion Foundation asked Russians what they consider the most important things in life. Preview: What is more important to Russians? 20:00 06/07/2011 The Public Opinion Foundation asked Russians what they consider the [...]
July 6, 2011
Russian parliament toughens gambling laws
The lower house of the Russian parliament passed on Wednesday presidential amendments tightening up the law on illegal gambling. Russia banned gambling in 2009 except for in four remote regions. As a result, underground casinos have flourished. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika’s son was questioned recently by police in connection with an illegal casino near Moscow. [...]
July 6, 2011
Russia plans to rent naval pilot training facilities in Ukraine
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov formally asked on Wednesday his Ukrainian counterpart Mykhailo Yezhel to rent facilities on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula for naval pilot training. In line with a 1997 bilateral agreement, Russia occasionally uses the Nitka Naval Pilot Training Center in Ukraine as the only training facility for its naval pilots. “I have signed [...]
July 6, 2011
RF FMS head satisfied with results of RF-EU Dialogue on Migration.
6/7 Tass 185 MOSCOW, July 6 (Itar-Tass) — Head of Russia’s Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky said he is satisfied with the first session of the Russia-EU Dialogue on Migration. The Russia-EU Dialogue on Migration also focuses on visa issues, Romodanovsky said. “It took 1.5 years to Russia and the EU to launch the Dialogue [...]
July 6, 2011
EMERCOM plane should leave for Tripoli with humanitarian aid July 7.
6/7 Tass 302 MOSCOW, July 6 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM) should leave for Tripoli, Libya’s capital, to deliver humanitarian aid on July 7, the Foreign Ministry press service reported on Wednesday. Earlier, at 2:40 p.m. Moscow time EMERCOM’s Il-76 plane with 36 tonnes of humanitarian aid on board landed at the Benghazi [...]
July 6, 2011
Russian watchdog agency bans imports of seeds from Egypt.
6/7 Tass 358 MOSCOW, July 6 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s Federal Service for the Protection of Consumer Rights /Rospotrebnadzor/ has banned the imports of seeds from Egypt pending the reports that the seeding materials of Egyptian origin might have caused the outbreak of the Escherichia coli infection in Europe, the country’s Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennady Onishchenko [...]
July 6, 2011
RF, NATO can agree on ABM by spring 2012 summit – Rasmussen.
6/7 Tass 355 BRUSSELS, July 6 (Itar-Tass) — Russia and NATO can reach agreement on missile defence by the 2012 spring Alliance summit, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. After the session of the Russia-NATO Council in Sochi of July 4, Rasmussen said really Russia and NATO could reach agreement on missile defence by the [...]