17/7 Tass 59a MAKHACHKALA, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Some 250,000 people may annually spend vacations at Dagestani Caspian Sea resorts 15 years from now, said speakers at a Friday conference in Makhachkala where the concept of the Caspian sea tourism cluster was presented. Federal executives, bankers and businessmen attended the conference. “Total investments in the [...]
Archives: 17 July 2011
July 17, 2011
July 17, 2011
Interior Ministry closes Internet casino with annual profit nearing 200 mln rubles.
17/7 Tass 139a MOSCOW, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— The Russian Interior Ministry’s K (cyber crime) department has closed an Internet casino with the annual profit nearing 200 million rubles, the ministry said on Friday. “The K department of the ministry together with Belgorod colleagues has stopped the activity of an organized criminal group operating Internet [...]
July 17, 2011
One of three blocked coalminers raised to surface.
17/7 Tass 136 SYKTYVKAR, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Rostislav Korniyuk, one of the three workers blocked by caved-in rock inside the Severnaya coalmine of the Vorkutaugol Company in Komi on Saturday, has been raised to the surface. He is in satisfactory condition, doctors have given him an anti-shock injection, Vorkutaugol press office head Yevgeny Sukharev [...]
July 17, 2011
St Petersburg Dialog creates atmosphere of trust, mutual understanding – Zubkov.
17/7 Tass 134 WOLFSBURG, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— The main goal of the St. Petersburg Dialog is to maintain permanent contact between civil societies of Russia and German and to discuss topical problems, which concern both countries and the world at large, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Sunday before the opening [...]
July 17, 2011
St Petersburg Dialog aims to involve public in modernization project – Zubkov.
17/7 Tass 143 WOLFSBURG, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has described as ‘highly appropriate’ the title of the 11th meeting of the St. Petersburg Dialog, “Citizens. Society. State – Modernization Partners.” He addressed the meeting’s opening in German Wolfsburg on Sunday. “First of all, the modernization partnership program becomes [...]
July 17, 2011
Seven hospitalized after road accident in Rostov region.
17/7 Tass 151 ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Seven people, including four children, were taken to hospital after a road accident in the Rostov region, the regional emergency situations department told Itar-Tass. A Gazelle van with ten children and three adults, including the driver, onboard slid to the counter lane and collided with a Hyundai [...]
July 17, 2011
Sunken Bulgaria being straightened before lift
MOSCOW, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— The sunken MS Bulgaria is being straightened before lifting. The operation may be complete within an hour, Deputy Transport Minister, lift supervisor Viktor Olersky said. “The straightening of the ship began at 5:30 p.m. Moscow time. The list has been reduced from 90 degrees to 10-15 degrees,” he told the [...]
July 17, 2011
Sunken Bulgaria being straightened before lift.
17/7 Tass 159 MOSCOW, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— The sunken MS Bulgaria is being straightened before lifting. The operation may be complete within an hour, Deputy Transport Minister, lift supervisor Viktor Olersky said. “The straightening of the ship began at 5:30 p.m. Moscow time. The list has been reduced from 90 degrees to 10-15 degrees,” [...]
July 17, 2011
Itar-Tass news digest for Sunday, July 17 – 2.
17/7 Tass 150 KRASNOYARSK, July 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Forty-eight wildfires are burning on 1,341 hectares in Siberia. Seven wildfires of 1,215 hectares were put out over the day, and another eleven wildfires of 308.5 hectares were confined, a source at the Siberian regional emergency situations center told Itar-Tass on Sunday. The wildfire rate is the [...]
July 17, 2011
Injured Russian boy flown to Moscow for further treatment
A team of Russian doctors has flown a nine-year-old boy who got grave injuries at an aqua park in Turkey back to Moscow for further treatment, the head of Russia’s center for the protection of citizens’ rights abroad said on Sunday. Kirill Gudkov has been unconscious for six days after he was injured at a [...]
July 17, 2011
Firefighters battle 26 wildfires in Russian Far East
Firefighters have extinguished ten wildfires in the Russian Far East in the past twenty-four hours and are still battling 26 forest fires in the area, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance have registered a total of 36 forest fires in the Far East on an area of over 5,700 hectares. [...]
July 17, 2011
Russia imposes ban on ships similar to sunken Bulgaria riverboat
Russia has imposed a ban on ships similar to the sunken Bulgaria riverboat until the causes of the tragedy are established, Transport Minister Igor Levitin said on Sunday. A decision on further operation of these ships will be taken after the investigators’ findings, Levitin said. The 79-meter Bulgaria cruiser, built in 1955 and last renovated [...]
July 17, 2011
Police kill two militants in North Caucasus
Police have killed two militants, including a local warlord in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, the Chechen authorities said on Sunday. “Two militants have been killed in a forest in the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic. One of them has been identified as Yunadi Batayev, the Emir of the [...]
July 17, 2011
Russia has no plans to supply arms to Libya
Russia has no plans to supply arms to Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station on Sunday. “Both the Russian legislation and the legislation of the European Union states ban any supplies of arms to a territory hit by a civil conflict or a [...]