WORLD *At slightest 30 militants were killed and 40 were arrested on Tuesday during a special operation in eastern Tajikistan opposite a mafia-style organisation believed to be related to a murder of a tip Tajik confidence official, Tajik’s Interior Ministry and a National Security Committee pronounced in a statement *Moscow expects Syrian authorities to particularly [...]
Archives: 24 July 2012
July 24, 2012
July 24, 2012
1,800 Stalin Deportation Victims From Kalmykia Seek State Compensation
1,800 Stalin Deportation Victims From Kalmykia Seek State Compensation By Jennifer Rankin The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) MOSCOW — More than 1,800 Kalmyks are seeking remuneration from the supervision as victims of a forced deportation systematic by Josef Stalin 60 years ago. A court in Elista, the capital of the Kalmykia republic, that lies between the southern [...]
July 24, 2012
Cargo Spacecraft Fails To Dock during Mir Space Station
Cargo Spacecraft Fails To Dock during Mir Space Station The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) MOSCOW — An unmanned Russian load vessel unsuccessful to dock with the International Space Station early Tuesday morning due to technical complications, NASA pronounced in a matter on its website. The Progress qualification had distant from the space hire Sunday to perform a series of engineering [...]
July 24, 2012
McDonald’s Fails to Find Worms in McChicken
McDonald’s Fails to Find Worms in McChicken The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) MOSCOW — McDonald’s found no irregularities at one of its Moscow restaurants that a customer pronounced sole her a chicken burger containing worms. “No unfamiliar objects were found in the essence of the sandwich,” McDonald’s pronounced in a statement, adding that staff had legalised [...]
July 24, 2012
Gay Propaganda Bill Sparks Outcry in Ukraine
Gay Propaganda Bill Sparks Outcry in Ukraine The Associated Press Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) KIEV, Ukraine — If a organisation of Ukrainian lawmakers succeeds in a mission, TV shows and cinema sympathetically portraying homosexuals such as “Brokeback Mountain” will be banned. So will happy honour parades. The recently introduced bill, upheld by [...]
July 24, 2012
Russians Disregard Eye Care
Russians Disregard Eye Care By Lena Smirnova The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) med157.ru A investigate showed that notwithstanding deliberation eyesight a profitable sense, many slight visiting a optometrist for checkups. MOSCOW — Russians would rather remove a physique partial or several years of their life than remove their eyesight, [...]
July 24, 2012
Local Athletes Leave For Olympics, Paralympics
charlie riedel / ap The Russian Olympic sailing group arrives during London’s Heathrow Airport final week.
July 24, 2012
Children’s Camp Causes Worry
Children’s Camp Causes Worry By Irina Titova The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) A liaison has erupted over a children’s summer stay in a Leningrad Oblast after a LenOblast prosecutor’s bureau pronounced a children attending a stay were not being fed adequate and that a vital conditions were too bad [...]
July 24, 2012
Families Left in Debt After Bank Gives Cards to Minors
Families Left in Debt After Bank Gives Cards to Minors By Irina Titova The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) The city’s consumer rights service, Rospotrebnadzor, has warned St. Petersburg relatives about internal banking marketplace violations in that children have been given bankcards though a believe of their parents. Over a [...]
July 24, 2012
Robbers Get Away From Bank With 10M Rubles
Robbers Get Away From Bank With 10M Rubles By Irina Titova The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) Unidentified criminals stole 10 million rubles ($307,000) in income from a bend of VTB 24 bank on Moskovsky Prospekt on Saturday. The robbers pennyless into a bank by a hole they dug by [...]
July 24, 2012
Kresty Prison Could Soon House Hotel or Gallery
Kresty Prison Could Soon House Hotel or Gallery By Galina Stolyarova The St. Petersburg Times Published: Jul 25, 2012 (Issue # 1719) Alexander Belenky / spt With a new apprehension trickery being built outward of St. Petersburg, City Hall is looking into redeveloping Kresty. As a new pre-trial apprehension trickery in a suburb of Kolpino [...]
July 24, 2012
Russian Govt. Bans Directing Planes with Lasers
The Russian supervision has altered a country’s aviation formula to anathema use of lasers and laser-based objects for directing aircraft, either taxiing, in flight, or during takeoff and landing The series of laser attacks on pilots in Russia surged final year. Only 5 cases of laser attacks were purebred in a nation in 2010, though [...]
July 24, 2012
Russia Reminds Syria of Chemical Weapons Ban Obligations
MOSCOW, Jul 24 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow expects a Syrian authorities to particularly approve with a country’s obligations underneath a anathema on chemical weapons, a Russian Foreign Ministry pronounced in a matter on Tuesday. In 1968, Syria assimilated a 1925 Geneva Protocol on a breach of a use in fight of asphyxiating, unwholesome or other [...]
July 24, 2012
Skinheads Sentenced to adult to Six Years in Prison for Murder
Four skinheads were condemned on Tuesday to jail terms trimming from 2.5 to 6 years for murdering a Kyrgyz inhabitant a day after a 2010 jingoist convene in executive Moscow. On Dec 11, a 5,000-strong throng of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with a military following a genocide of Spartak Moscow soccer fan Yegor Sviridov, [...]