Anti-government protests staged in Russia over the weekend are a “positive sign” for democracy in the former Soviet republic, Washington said Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced that he would challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the upcoming presidential elections next March A new-look Lokomotiv Yaroslavl took to the ice competitively for the first time since [...]
Archives: 13 December 2011
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011
Top blogger Navalny challenges his arrest in European court
Lawyers of anti-corruption activist and top blogger Alexei Navalny and opposition leader Ilya Yashin, detained during protests last week, lodged their complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Both men have been sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police orders during protests in Moscow last Monday against the allegedly fraudulent December [...]
December 13, 2011
No delay over fire for Vladivostok APEC bridge construction
Construction terms for a bridge in Vladivostok, which caught fire on Monday afternoon, will remain unchanged, a deputy head of the construction company said on Tuesday. The bridge is among infrastructure objects to be built for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in 2012. It will connect the mainland part of the city with Russky Island, [...]
December 13, 2011
Moscow Court Says Opposition Activist’s Arrest Legal
MOSCOW — A Moscow court has ruled that the arrest of an organizer of Russia’s mass protest on December 10 was legal, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Sergei Udaltsov, a coordinator of the opposition Left Front movement, was arrested for “illegally leaving a hospital while serving a multi-day jail term for holding an unsanctioned mass gathering [...]