The Arab League’s sanctions against Damascus are in fact “a declaration of economic war” against the Syrian people, which “closed windows” for resolving the country’s crisis, the country’s senior diplomat says. “Let them study the history of Syria very well,” Syrian FM Walid al-Moallem told reporters at a news conference on Monday. “Neither warnings nor [...]
Archives: 28 November 2011
November 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Washington’s reset in the relations with Moscow ended in a failure…
The End of Reset: This article is by Leonid Ivashov, President of the Geopolitics Problems Academy, Professor with the Moscow University of Linguistics, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced on November 22 that the US stops supplying to Russia the data on conventional [...]
November 28, 2011
Search resumes for Russian seamen missing off Welsh coast
The search has resumed for five Russian seamen missing off the coast of north Wales after their cargo ship sank in stormy waters. Two men were airlifted to safety by an RAF helicopter co-piloted by Prince William after their vessel, the Swanland, went down in the Irish Sea about 10 miles west of the Lleyn [...]
November 28, 2011
Vasily Alekseyev: The Passing Of A Soviet Weightlifting Icon
The passing away on November 25 of Vasily Alekseyev, a legendary figure in competitive weightlifting, marks yet another poignant closure for the former Soviet Union. Alekseyev, who reportedly died of heart failure at the age of 69 in a Munich clinic, epitomized the achievements as well as the failures of a rigid system designed to [...]
November 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Three teens die in Moscow garage
The bodies of three teenagers aged between 15 and 16 were found on Monday inside a car in a garage in Moscow, apparently the victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, a source in local law enforcement said. “According to preliminary data, the cause of death is carbon monoxide poisoning,” the source said. The teenagers died six [...]
November 28, 2011
Magnitsky was tortured in prison
Hermitage Capital investment fund on Monday released an in-depth and documented report accusing Russian officials of the false arrest, torture and pre-trial death of its auditor Sergei Magnitsky and the subsequent cover-up by Russian officials. “Most shockingly, this report proves that nearly every high level Russian official in the law enforcement system publicly lied to [...]
November 28, 2011
Extremist author wants to become Russian president
A man who claims to heal people by phone and whose book is on the federal list of extremist materials was the first to submit his own nomination to election officials to become the next Russian president, Kommersant business daily reported over the weekend. Nikolai Levashov, author of “Russia in Distorting Mirrors”, which is banned [...]
November 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Touring relic seen by 3 mln in Russia, goes home
Nearly 3 million faithful venerated a relic of the Virgin Mary that was exhibited in a number of Russian cities. The Virgin Mary’s Cincture, a belt Christians believe was worn by Jesus’ mother, was brought to Russia from Mount Athos in Greece on October 20. The faithful waited in lines up to 5.5 kilometers long for [...]
November 28, 2011
Russia postpones Bulava missile test
The test launch of Russia’s Bulava ballistic missile has been postponed until a later date, a source in the Defense Ministry said on Monday. November 28 was the planned launch date from the Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine. It was supposed to be a two-missile salvo launch and an important phase in testing before the [...]
November 28, 2011
Russian court fines bribe-eating cop
Despite trying to eat the evidence, a Russian traffic policeman was fined 600,000 rubles ($19,000) for accepting a bribe from a motorist, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Monday. A court in Russia’s Rtischevsky district fined Andrey Zakharov for accepting a bribe of 15,000 rubles to return the motorist’s suspended license in March 2011. Zakharov [...]
November 28, 2011
Russian opposition activist to spend 1 year in colony for attacking police
A Russian opposition activist was sentenced on Monday to one and half years in a penal colony for attacking a police officer during an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow last year. Grigory Torbeyev, member of the Left Front opposition movement, hit the officer in the face with a burning flare as police dispersed the Day [...]
November 28, 2011
US govt orders Wikileaks destroy all files about them – Assange
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has told a media summit that the US government has ordered Wikileaks to destroy all the material is has published on them and stop working with its sources in the government. “[When we released our documents] the Pentagon said we must destroy everything we published and were going to publish,” Assange [...]