Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich has resigned after a government report found serious errors by the crew of the plane that crashed in Russia last year, killing President Lech Kaczynski and nearly 100 other prominent Poles. Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the announcement in Warsaw on July 29, saying he accepted Klich’s resignation. The resignation [...]
Archives: 29 July 2011
July 29, 2011
July 29, 2011
Govt to allot 48.5 bln rbl for Lake Baikal preservation till 2020
MOSCOW, Jul 29 (PRIME) — The Russian government plans to allocate 48.5 billion rubles to a national special purpose program aimed at the preservation of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region in 20122020, according to the governments documents seen Friday, RIA Novosti reported. In December 2010, Deputy Natural Resources Minister Igor Maidanov said that the [...]
July 29, 2011
Exec: Norilsk Nickel sees increase in core metal prices by yr-end
MOSCOW, Jul 29 (PRIME) — Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel expects prices on its core metals to increase by the end of this year, RIA Novosti reported Friday citing Viktor Sprogis, the companys deputy CEO. As of Friday, nickel was traded at U.S. $24,650 per tonne, copper traded at $9,810 per tonne, palladium traded at [...]
July 29, 2011
Russia’s Rostelecom to launch single national IPTV platform soon
MOSCOW, Jul 29 (PRIME) — Major Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom is expected to launch a single TV via Internet Protocol (IPTV) platform for its national network in late 2011, Moscow-based digital TV platform developer SmartLabs, which is to supply IPTV solutions to Rostelecom, said Friday. SmartLabs has already started the project for creating the single [...]
July 29, 2011
Kerch Strait Bridge to be built by Sochi Olympics – governor.
29/7 Tass 335 KRASNODAR, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— A bridge across the Kerch Strait will be ready by the Sochi Olympic Games 2014, Krasnodar Governor Alexander Tkachyov said on Friday. He said Russia and Ukraine had reached a basic agreement on that project initiated by the Krasnodar territory a long time ago. “Yet we must [...]
July 29, 2011
Second oceanographic research vessel for Russian Navy to be built by 2014
KALININGRAD, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— The second oceanographic research vessel will be built for the Russian Navy by 2014, head of the Defense Ministry’s deepwater research department Vice-Admiral Alexei Burilichev told reporters in Kaliningrad on Friday. He attended the launch of the first vessel of Project 11982, the Seliger, at the Yantar shipyard. The vessel [...]
July 29, 2011
Church to be built in memory of victims of Moscow theatre tragedy.
29/7 Tass 203 MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— The construction of a church in memory of victims of the Moscow theatre tragedy begins near the theatre in Dubrovka. The future temple of Saints Cyril and Methodius will be the first Orthodox church to be built of ready-made modules under the program of the construction of [...]
July 29, 2011
Miller Commission’s report to help prevent similar accidents in future – Tusk.
29/7 Tass 330 WARSAW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— The Miller Commission’s report on the presidential Tupolev Tu-154 crash near Smolensk on April 10, 2010, will help avoid similar accidents in the future, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said after the presentation of the findings of the governmental ad hoc commission led by Interior Minister Jerzy [...]
July 29, 2011
About 200 passengers of bankrupt airline stranded at Anapa Airport
KRASNODAR, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— About 200 passengers of the Continent airline are stranded at the Anapa Airport as the airline has announced its bankruptcy and cancelled all flights, a source at the Krasnodar territorial administration told Itar-Tass. Krasnodar Vice-Governor Vadim Lukoyanov, who is in charge of transport issues, arrived in Anapa to hold an [...]
July 29, 2011
Ukrainian president names cause of explosion at Lugansk mine
DONETSK, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— A failure in the electric circuit or violations in demolition works might have caused the explosion at the Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya mine in the Lugansk region, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said at the mine on Friday. “There are two theories of this tragedy: it could be a failure in the electric circuit [...]
July 29, 2011
Airlines with less than 20 jets of same type may be barred from regular flights.
29/7 Tass MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) —— The Federal Air Transport Service has proposed to ban regular flights of airlines, which have less than 20 jets of the same type, service spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said on Friday. “The Federal Air Transport Service calls for the soonest amendments to the requirements for commercial airlines. It thinks [...]
July 29, 2011
EC suggests easing border crossing with EU for Russia’s Kaliningrad residents
The European Commission proposed facilitating border crossings with Poland and Lithuania for residents of the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, EC representative Michele Cercone said. Under the proposal, the entire Kaliningrad region and a specific border area on the Polish side are considered the border zone. Residents of such areas will be issued a special [...]
July 29, 2011
Russian Navy to commission 8 Graney class nuclear subs by 2020
The Russian Navy will receive at least eight Graney class nuclear-powered attack submarines in the next decade, Navy chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Friday. “We are expecting to receive at least eight attack submarines of this [Graney] class by 2020,” Vysotsky said in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti. The admiral said that the [...]
July 29, 2011
Russian Black Sea Fleet to receive 6 new diesel subs
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will be strengthened with six Kilo class diesel-electric submarines in the next few years, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Friday. “Six diesel-electric submarines of Project 636 [Kilo class] will be built for the Black Sea Fleet in the next few years,” Vysotsky said in an exclusive interview with RIA [...]