The launch of the U.S. Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite atop a Russian Zenit-2SB carrier rocket has been postponed, the Russian Space Agency said in a statement on Tuesday. The launch of the spacecraft from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan was scheduled for 1:00 on Wednesday Moscow time (21:00 GMT on Tuesday), but Intelsat asked [...]
Archives: 04 October 2011
October 4, 2011
October 4, 2011
Main news of October 4
WORLD * The Nobel Prize for Physics 2011 has been awarded to U.S. and Australian cosmology researchers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said * At least 65 people were killed and 50 injured when a bomb went off in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, BBC reported quoting local officials * Greece can meet its financial [...]
October 4, 2011
Russia seeks extension of Azerbaijan radar lease
Russia is negotiating the extension of the lease of the Gabala missile early-warning radar in Azerbaijan, Commander of the Russian Space Forces Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said. The radar, located near the town of Minchegaur, 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital Baku, was leased to Russia for 10 years in 2002. The lease expires [...]
October 4, 2011
U.S. economy to benefit from Russia’s accession to WTO
The United States will benefit from Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as it would open new markets for American exporters, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said. “The simple fact is that Russia’s accession matters to the U.S. economy. It will create new markets for American exporters in one of the [...]
October 4, 2011
Russian mining company boss attacks fellow businessmen as ‘adolescent’
The chief executive of the latest Russian mining company heading for the FTSE 100 has attempted to distance himself from the corporate governance woes afflicting his compatriots by slamming businessmen from the former Soviet Union as “showy” and “adolescent”. Vitaly Nesis, the head of precious metals group Polymetal, added that many of his country’s industrialists [...]
October 4, 2011
Putin’s grand vision: a new Eurasian bloc with old Soviet neighbours
One week after announcing that he will return to the presidency next year Vladimir Putin has laid out a grand vision to bring Russia‘s former Soviet neighbours back into the fold. Putin proposes the formation of a “Eurasian union”, a bloc that could boost Russia’s influence on the global stage. The proposal – from the [...]
October 4, 2011
Abramovich paid Berezovsky £1.3bn ‘to act as his political godfather’
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich paid $2bn (£1.3bn) to fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky for his services as a political “godfather” in the turbulent years after the collapse of communism, Abramovich’s lawyer has disclosed. The two former allies are trading legal blows at the high court in London, where Berezovsky is suing Abramovich for £3.2bn. Berezovsky, who [...]
October 4, 2011
Pass notes No 3,055: Boris Berezovsky
Age: 65. Appearance: Impeccably well-dressed. Really? He’s not even wearing a tie. Well, he does shop at Dolce Gabbana. That’s not stylish. That’s naff. It’s a moot point. Fine. But how do you know where he shops? It was October 2007. The Russian oligarch was perusing threads at DG’s Sloane Street outlet in west London [...]
October 4, 2011
October 4, 2011
Russian Would-Be Homeowners Stage Protest
IRKUTSK, Russia — Dozens of would-be homeowners have picketed the regional government in the east Siberian city of Irkutsk to demand their overdue apartments, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Some 270 local families have paid for new apartments that were to be built by December 2008 but remain unfinished. One of the protest organizers, Yelena Mazurenko, [...]
October 4, 2011
Supreme Court legalizes downloading music
The United State Supreme Court has refused an appeal that would have made downloading music an infringement of federal copyright law. Take that, Metallica! The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, had been attempting to appeal to the Supreme Court an early ruling by an appeals court in New York that said [...]
October 4, 2011
Russian ship ‘detained’ in Yemeni territorial waters
The Yemeni coastguard detained on Tuesday vessels from Russia and Mongolia in Yemeni territorial waters in the Red Sea, the Elaph online portal said, quoting a coastguard spokesman. Fishermen had reported that two “suspicious” vessels had entered Yemeni territorial waters, spokesman Abdullah Mohammed Jalil told journalists. A total of 27 crew members belonging to “various [...]
October 4, 2011
Russian deputies approve chemical castration for pedophiles
Deputies from the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, have approved a bill stipulating chemical castration for pedophiles, in a bid to crack down on sex crime against minors. The overwhelming majority of Duma deputies – 331 of 332 – voted for the draft in its first reading, and one abstained. The bill also [...]
October 4, 2011
Rokot carrier rocket launches to resume soon
Launches of Rokot carrier rockets may resume in the near future, Commander of Russian Space Forces Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said on Tuesday. “Work on resuming the launches is in the final stage and we are working closely with Russian federal space agency Roskosmos. The causes of the Rokot’s failure have been identified,” Ostapenko said. [...]