14/7 Tass 401 MINSK, July 14 (Itar-Tass) – Belarus is still evidencing certain problems with the purchases of hard currency, and yet a tendency towards an increase in the inflow of currency has surfaced, too, Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich said Thursday as he met with President Alexander Lukashenko. “Objective problems with the purchases of currency [...]
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July 14, 2011
July 14, 2011
Ukraine sets up commission to investigate mass deaths of dolphins.
14/7 Tass 341 KIEV, July 14 (Itar-Tass) — Ukraine has set up a commission to expose the circumstances of a mass death of dolphins in the in area of Kinburn Spit in the Black Sea, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources said. The team of investigators includes representatives of the international nongovernmental organization called [...]
July 14, 2011
Russian city marks 70 yrs since trial by fire of Katyusha rocket launchers.
14/7 Tass 298 PENZA, July 14 (Itar-Tass) — Russian city of Penza located some 700 kilometers to the east of Moscow has marked the 70th anniversary since the baptism by fire of the world-famous superweapon of World War II — the Katyusha multiple rocket launchers. Factories located in Penza manufactured critical component parts of the [...]
July 14, 2011
Putin demands action against captains who neglected drowning people.
14/7 Tass 405 KAZAN, July 14 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday demand a tough legal assessment of the actions of river vessel captains who did not give assistance to people from the wrecking cruise liner The Bulgaria. “We must look more attentively at those who were passing by,” he said at [...]
July 14, 2011
Plan for refloating of wrecked Volga cruise ship in offing.
15/7 Tass 353 KAZAN, July 15 (Itar-Tass) — A plan of the operation for refloating the wrecked cruise motor ship Bulgaria is in the offing, Transport Minister Igor Levitin said Thursday night at a session of the governmental commission in charge of clearing the aftermath of last Sunday’s wreckage of The Bulgaria. “The plan should [...]
July 14, 2011
Russian Pres agrees to pardon actress Natalya Zakharova.
15/7 Tass 330a MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has agreed to pardon actress Natalya Zakharova who received a jail term in absentia in France for organizing an arson in her former husband’s apartment. “The President’s consent of principle has been secured and a package of documents is being prepared now so [...]
July 14, 2011
Medvedev urges respect to private enterprise.
15/7 Tass 383 MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) —— President Dmitry Medvedev who met small business entrepreneurs from a town in Penza region on Thursday, agreed that national development is impossible without respect to private enterprise which many local officials ignore and disregard. “Penza businessmen are correct: the success of the country is impossible without respect [...]
July 14, 2011
Belarus continues to arrest silent protesters.
15/7 Tass 311 MINSK, July 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Belarussian authorities continued on Thursday to sentence silent protesters to administrative arrest ranging from three to 15 days in custody. The Belarussian Vesna human rights center said three district courts of Minsk considered 13 cases against activists detained on Wednesday evening for participation in silent protests against [...]
July 14, 2011
Russia backs South Sudan membership in UNO.
15/7 Tass 358 MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia backed UN membership for South Sudan saying it would strengthen stability and security on the African continent. “On June 14 the UN General Assembly upon a recommendation of the Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution on the admission of the Republic of South Sudan to the [...]
July 14, 2011
Russia calls for India’s full-fledged NSG participation.
15/7 Tass 375 MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia continues to call for a full-fledged participation of India in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and is ready to promote such a decision,” Russia’s foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday commenting the results of the NSG meeting in the Netherlands last month. He said [...]
July 14, 2011
Russian sailing ship Pallada to visit Alaska
The Russian sailing ship Pallada is to call on Kodiak, Alaska on July 21, a spokesperson for ship-owner, Far Eastern State Technical Fishing University, said on Thursday. Kodiak will be the Pallada’s first port of call during a four-month Pacific expedition. The ship carrying cadets from the Primorye and Kamchatka territories sailed from Vladivostok on [...]
July 14, 2011
Extremists may seek to hijack State Duma polls – minister
Extremist youth groups may attempt to exploit Russia’s upcoming parliamentary election campaign, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev warned on Thursday. He said he could not rule out that extremists would try to use the polls to “achieve their sordid goals.” Nurgaliyev also warned of possible terrorist attacks and ethnic tensions in the period leading up to [...]
July 14, 2011
Russia suspends airline after crash
Russia’s aviation authorities have suspended the license of the Moscow-based airline Rusair following a plane crash last month that killed 47 people. A RusAir Tupolev Tu-134 plane, with 43 passengers and nine crew on board, crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a motorway near Petrozavodsk, the main city in the Karelia region, [...]
July 14, 2011
Russian court reopens LUKoil official crash case
Russia’s Constitutional Court has reopened the case of two women who were killed in a road accident last year involving the vice-president of oil giant LUKoil. The Investigative Committee declared the case closed in August last year after LUKoil’s Anatoly Barkov was cleared over the deaths of gynecologist Vera Sidelnikova and her daughter-in-law, Olga Alexandrina, [...]