Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has authorized a membership of a Military-Industrial Commission, withdrawal Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as chairman, a supervision reported on a website. Rogozin progressing pronounced that a elect would turn a “price arbiter” in disputes between a Defense Ministry and invulnerability attention companies. Yury Borisov stays a commission’s initial emissary [...]
Archives: 22 June 2012
June 22, 2012
June 22, 2012
Moscow Helsinki Group Leader Quits Kremlin Rights Council
Following a spate of resignations that has seen a Russian Presidential Human Rights Council remove scarcely half of a members, a Head of a Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva announced on Friday she, too, is withdrawal a organization. “I left a council, yes. we will contention my abdication today,” a aged romantic pronounced during a [...]
June 22, 2012
Iran Must Participate in Syria Talks
Moscow discharged on Friday U.S. and British objections to Iran’s appearance in an general discussion on Syria. “We are assured that Iran should attend in that conference,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. The United States and Britain explain that Iran can’t be invited given “it is misbehaving,” he said. “When a Americans had to [...]
June 22, 2012
Russia Will Respond to Magnitsky Bill
The measures Russia will take in response to a supposed Magnitsky Bill being upheld by a U.S. Congress will count on a final calm of a bill, Russian presidential confidant Yury Ushakov pronounced on Friday. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama discussed a Magnitsky Bill on a sidelines of a G20 Summit [...]
June 22, 2012
Opposition Politician Fined $600 for Organizing Protest March
A justice in a southern Russian city of Astrakhan systematic antithesis politician Oleg Shein to compensate a 20,000-ruble ($600) excellent for organizing a criticism impetus in a city on Jun 12, when a nation noted Russia Day. Shein, a member of A Just Russia party, became one of a initial politicians to be fined according [...]
June 22, 2012
Kremlin Aide: Putin, Obama Meeting ‘Constructive’
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama exchanged invitations to revisit any other’s nation during their assembly on a sidelines of a G20 limit in Mexico, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said. “Putin invited Obama to revisit Russia; Obama invited Putin. They concluded to keep in hit by phone,” Ushakov said, refuting media [...]
June 22, 2012
Belarus, Russia to Sign Nuclear Plant Deal in July
Belarus will pointer a master agreement with Russia to erect a initial chief appetite plant in a nation in July, First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko pronounced on Friday. “Discussions about a master agreement to build a chief appetite plant in Belarus have roughly finished and it will be sealed in early July,” Semashko told [...]
June 22, 2012
Russian Sub Builders to Get New Management
Russian state-owned chief submarine builder Sevmash and a Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering will expected shortly be headed by a firms’ stream ubiquitous directors’ deputies, a tip invulnerability attention central pronounced on Friday. Andrei Dyachkov will leave his posts as ubiquitous executive in both companies from Jul 1 to take over as President [...]
June 22, 2012
Russian Man Commits Suicide with Chainsaw to Throat
A rancher in Russia’s Altai segment committed self-murder by slicing his throat with a chainsaw during a celebration binge with his brother, informal investigators pronounced on Friday. According to investigations, a 55-year-old male was celebration heavily during his home with his younger hermit who came for a visit. “After some time a male went to [...]
June 22, 2012
Man Jumps from Window with Weights Tied to Neck, Dies
A male committed self-murder in Moscow on Friday by jumping out of a window with weightlifting weights tied to his neck, military said. Eyewitnesses reported a occurrence to military on Friday morning, giving opposing accounts of what had happened. Some pronounced a male jumped out of a window together with a weights, while others pronounced [...]
June 22, 2012
Russian Govt Confirms Top Company Short-Term Privatization Plans
The Russian supervision reliable a skeleton to sell a stakes of a tip 10 state-owned companies in 2012-2013 underneath orders published on Friday. The supervision affirms it skeleton to privatize 7.58 percent reduction one share in tip bank Sberbank, 25.5 percent reduction one share in a country’s second largest bank VTB, 25 percent reduction one [...]
June 22, 2012
Deripaska, Sberbank, Changi Set $820 Mln Airport JV
Basic Element (BasEl) holding association owned by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, a country’s tip bank Sberbank and Changi Airports International sealed an $820-million understanding on Friday to settle a corner try of airports government in Russia’s south. The agreement, sealed during a St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, stipulates that BasEl’s interest in a corner try [...]
June 22, 2012
Russia’s United Shipbuilding Wins $1-Bln Sovcomflot Order
Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSC) has won a $1-billion sequence from Russia’s Sovcomflot shipping association for 4 seismographic ships, OSC’s Roman Trotsenko pronounced on Friday during a St. Petersburg Economic Forum. “This is a array of 4 ships we will build in pairs, a agreement is value over one billion dollars,” he said. He explained [...]
June 22, 2012
Norilsk Plans to Invest $1.5 Bln in Australian Nickel Deposit
Russia’s largest nickel writer Norilsk Nickel skeleton to deposition over $1.5 billion in growth of a Honeymoonwell Nickel Deposit in Australia, Norilsk Director of Overseas Operations Department Roman Panov pronounced on Friday. Planning for a deposition will be hold in 2012-2013 and a association will start infrastructure construction in 2014. The deposition is scheduled to [...]
