Russia has cursed a repairs to eremite shrines in Timbuktu, Mali, in attacks carried out by Islamic extremists, a Russian Foreign Ministry pronounced on Monday. “According to reports from Mali, in Timbuktu, that is assigned by separatists, a militants of a Ansar Dine transformation broken a series of mausoleums of internal saints. The Islamists have [...]
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July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
Drunk Thief Falls Asleep during Crime Scene in Russia
One of a many untimely robberies in a while finished in disaster since a burglar dipsomaniac a bottle of vodka he came opposite and fell asleep, Moscow segment investigators pronounced on Monday. The owners of a unit targeted by a think called military when she saw a close broken, a informal bend of a Investigative [...]
July 2, 2012
Russia’s Rearmament Remains on Schedule – Econ Minister
Russia will not postpone a doing of a desirous rearmament module for 3 years, though might make some adjustments to quell a bill deficit, Economic Development Minister Andrei Belousov pronounced on Monday. Russia’s Vedomosti business daily progressing pronounced a supervision is deliberation changeable a doing of a 2013-2020 module to 2016-2023. “We are not deliberating [...]
July 2, 2012
Medvedev Says Vladivostok ‘Better’ Than San Francisco
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised on Monday a Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, that will horde a APEC limit in September, observant it looked like San Francisco, though with “better” people. Medvedev who came to Vladivostok to check comforts being built for a summit, praised a city’s new highways and bridges, that he pronounced [...]
July 2, 2012
Transneft Starts to Fill Pacific Pipeline Second Leg With Oil
Russian oil tube corner Transneft has started to fill a second leg of a East Siberia – Pacific Ocean tube with wanton oil, a company’s press bureau pronounced on Monday. “Oil was granted to a linear partial of a case tube … during a territory located during Skovorodino in a Amur Region,” a press bureau [...]
July 2, 2012
Siberian Stone Park Becomes World Heritage Site
UNESCO put Lena Pillars inlet park in eastern Siberia on a World Heritage List, a deputy of a tellurian physique pronounced on Monday. The preference was reached during UNESCO’s event ongoing in St. Petersburg, a deputy told RIA Novosti. The pierce will be formalized during a finish of a session, that is set to hang [...]
July 2, 2012
Putin Backs Imports of Foreign Military Technology
Russian President Vladimir Putin upheld on Monday a thought of purchasing certain forms of troops record abroad to prove a specific and obligatory needs of a troops and invulnerability industry. “We contingency make full use of a mechanisms of military-technical team-work for purchasing unfamiliar technologies, certain samples of equipment, that are indispensable for a growth [...]
July 2, 2012
Kremlin Rights Head Criticizes NGO Law
A law due by a statute United Russia celebration to force foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concerned in politics to announce themselves “foreign agents” was slammed on Monday by tellurian rights groups and a conduct of a Kremlin’s possess rights council. “The due legislation is too far-reaching in reach,” Kremlin tellurian rights legislature arch Mikhail Fedotov [...]
July 2, 2012
Baltlogistics to Invest 7 Mln Euros in Moscow Region Rabbit Farm
Baltlogistics.Com, one of Russia’s largest logistics, placement and merchandising firms, will deposit scarcely 7 million euros in construction of a rabbit plantation in a Moscow region, MITS investment firm, that sole a land for a farm, pronounced on Monday. The 12.5 hectare land site with prosaic turf and available ride entrance is located in a [...]
July 2, 2012
Six Russian Regions Produce Almost 50% of GDP – RIA Rating
Six Russian regions, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, constructed roughly 50 percent of a country’s GDP in 2011 and a informal structure is doubtful to change in a nearby future, experts of RIA Rating group pronounced on Monday. These regions were Moscow, a Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and a energy-rich Khanty-Mansi Autonomous area (Yugra), Tyumen [...]
July 2, 2012
Russia Looking during 2020 for New Generation Long-Range Bomber
The Russian Air Force might accept a initial PAK DA subsequent era long-range bomber about 2020 instead of 2025 as primarily planned, Russia’s behaving emissary Air Force commander, Major General Alexander Chernyayev, has said. “I consider a initial models of a Prospective Air Complex for Long Range Aviation (PAK DA) will be granted to a [...]
July 2, 2012
Expobank Acquires Russian Subsidiary of WestLB
Russian mid-sized Expobank sealed an agreement to buy a Russian auxiliary of Germany’s WestLB AG financial group, Expobank pronounced in a matter on Monday. Expobank, a former auxiliary of U.K. Barclays Bank Plc in Russia, skeleton to tighten a understanding to buy WestLB Vostok in a fourth entertain of 2012. “WestLB Vostok’s squeeze is a [...]
July 2, 2012
Fridman Officially Quits TNK-BP CEO Post
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman has strictly stepped down as CEO of a Russian-British corner try TNK-BP, a association pronounced on Monday. “Mikhail Fridman has stepped down from his position as government of a government house of TNK-BP government and arch executive officer of TNK-BP. The government of M. Fridman, formed on powers of attorney, has [...]
July 2, 2012
UK Fund to Help Recapitalize Second-Tier Russian Banks
A recently determined British account will assistance Russian second-tier banks beef adult their collateral and stay afloat amid deteriorating outmost and inner financial conditions, Kommersant business daily reported on Monday. “The Russian Banks Capitalization Fund was purebred in mid-June in England and is prepared to accept applications from Russian banks,” IFC Senior Investment Officer for [...]