Cameras aimed at catching overzealous drivers have proved a huge success on Moscow streets. In less than a week, the cameras caught 2,000 road offences, which equates to more than 780,000 rubles worth of fines. The majority of cameras are located near bus lanes and on the Third Ring Road, on which speeding is commonplace. [...]
Archives: 06 October 2011
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
Opinion poll expert detained in Minsk
Belarusian sociologist and public figure, Oleg Manaev, spent hours under arrest in Minsk after reporting the most dramatic downfall in President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s rating in history. According to Belarusian media reports, Manaev was walking to a briefing with EU representatives on Thursday, when he was stopped by policemen, who told him he was under arrest. [...]
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
‘European Central Bank puts last nails in its coffin’
The European Central Bank will provide shaky banks with $53 billion to prop them up against potential Greek fallout, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet has announced. But the move will topple the whole EU financial system, an expert believes. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, the ECB head, Jean- Claude Trichet, said that [...]
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
Nightmare neocons join Team Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced today a star-studded roster of conservative shot-callers that he has acquired to advise him on national security and foreign policy issues. For opponents of the George W Bush administration, however, you might want to stop reading right now. Among those that grace the list released by Romney’s camp today [...]
October 6, 2011
‘Police reaction benefits protesters’
The police reaction in New York, where pepper spray and batons have been used against thousands of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, brings a lot of attention to the issue and advances the protesters’ goals, believes writer and editor, Joshua Holland. “Protesters that I interviewed here, at Occupy San Francisco, have mentioned that police over-response is [...]
October 6, 2011
Occupy DC begins
On the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, thousands united at Freedom Plaza in Washington DC today, demanding that politicians take notice. Organizer David Swanson said, “Our demands are tax the billionaires, tax the corporations and stop dumping discretionary spending into the war machine.” Those demands are echoed in the hundreds of protesters that [...]
October 6, 2011
Putin says to continue work with former finance minister despite ‘outburst’
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he will continue to work with former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Kudrin resigned last week following a public row with President Dmitry Medvedev, who is set to swap roles with Putin next year. “I have talked with Alexei Leonidovich about this,” Putin told an investment forum in Moscow [...]
October 6, 2011
Strasbourg court has no mandate to exonerate Katyn victims says Russia
The European Human Rights Convention does not stipulate mandatory exoneration for victims of past crimes, Russia’s ombudsman to the European Court of Human Rights Georgiy Matyushkin said on Thursday in a hearing on the Katyn forest massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet Union during World War Two. Thousands of Polish officers, police and civilians [...]
October 6, 2011
Russia to continue policy of full support for Abkhazia – Medvedev
Russia intends to continue its policy of full support for Abkhazia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Russia will continue to give full support to the fraternal people of Abkhazia,” Medvedev said during talks with his Abkhaz counterpart Alexander Ankvab. Medvedev noted that they discussed economic cooperation issues during the talks. “It is important [...]
October 6, 2011
Russia’s economic, political reforms to be ‘evolutionary’
Russia does need economic and political changes but they will be evolutionary, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We need no upheavals – we need a great Russia,” he told an investment forum in Moscow. “We will proceed very cautiously, consolidating the fundamentals of our political system, and developing it,” he said. “I believe [...]