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MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia’s government will continue to allocate subsidies to employers for organisation of working places for the disabled, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with the All-Russian Popular Front’s Coordination Council on Friday, which was devoted to problems of the disabled. “As soon as the crisis began, the [...]

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The situation around Russian-Ukrainian gas contracts will not tell on Russia’s gas supplies to Europe, Russian Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko said on Friday. “It has always been Russia’s principled position that its ties with Ukraine in the area of gas supplies are not to impact the gas flow,” he [...]

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The first four days of the MAKS-2011 international airspace show in Zhukovsky near Moscow yielded more than ten billion U.S. dollars worth of contracts and deals, Vladimir Borisov, the director general of the Aviasalon company, said on Friday. “According to preliminary estimates, the figure has exceeded that of [...]

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— Police have exposed an illegal distillery of the RosAlco company in the town of Noginsk near Moscow and seized some 550 tons of raw materials and more than 42,000 bottles of vodka and other alcoholic drinks, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry’s administration for the Moscow region told Itar-Tass [...]

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The Tupolev Company plans to supply over 100 Tu-204SM jetliners to three Russian airlines, including 44 to Red Wings, 45 to Vim Avia and 15 to Aviastar Tu, Tupolev Deputy Director for External Relations and Marketing Alexei Alferyev told Itar-Tass on Friday. “Leasing companies of Russian banks will [...]

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The Antonov An-24 plane, which made a crash landing in Blagoveshchensk on August 8, had no technical defects, the Interstate Aviation Committee said. Fifteen out of 36 people aboard were hurt in the event. Technical defects and inferior jet fuel had been a key theory of the crash landing. “Data [...]

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The Irkut Corporation, which is building Russia’s new passenger liner MS-21, fears competition with China’s C919, Corporation President Alexei Fyodorov hinted on Friday. “I think our plane will be better by technical and, what is more important, economic parameters. At the same time, China has a big advantage [...]

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— Mars Express of the European Space Agency (ESA) will help find a place for landing of the Russian Phobos Grunt interplanetary station on the Martian moon, the Mars Express project head told Itar-Tass. He said Mars Express had taken pictures of Phobos for selecting the optimal landing spot. [...]

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) —— More than 100,000 people visited the MAKS 2011 international aerospace show on the first day it opened for visitors, the Moscow city police department told Itar-Tass. “The show had 105,000 visitors on Friday. Some 200,000 visitors are expected on Saturday,” the source said. No serious incidents have occurred in the [...]

Russian police officers working in positions where they may be exposed to the temptations of bribery and corruption will have to take lie-detector tests, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Friday. “This mainly concerns officers appointed to posts where there is a risk of corruption,” Nurgaliyev said at a meeting with police officials in the [...]

Unsuccessful coup d’etat in the Soviet Union and unveiling of a brand new astronomical laboratory were the brightest events on August 19. First step to Soviet collapse On this day in 1991, Moscow saw an attempted overthrow of the government. While then-leader Mikhail Gorbachev was on vacation, his rivals planned a coup d’etat, with armed [...]

Building work has been stopped at a site where a historical building was torn down amid clashes between security guards and activists last week. City Hall says it wants to conduct more public hearings on the divisive project. Masked security guards allegedly attacked and injured a number of protestors, including journalists, during the demolition stage. [...]

If you ask Willy Wonka what the formula for a good product is, he’ll tell you it’s 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation and 2 percent butterscotch ripple. Those at the Hershey’s chocolate factory in Pennsylvania have a similar setup themselves, but somewhere in the mix they manage to include the exploitation [...]

The planned enlargement of Moscow’s boundaries is going to include more land than first thought. City Hall says the Russian capital will now grow by 16,000 hectares. The expansion will be mainly in the south of the city. Moscow will grow to include Skolkovo town, which hosts Russia’s new innovation hub, and Rublevo-Arkhangelskoe village, where [...]