Three policemen were killed and one wounded when unidentified assailants attacked a police car in the Botlikhsky district of Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan on Thursday, the press service of the regional interior ministry reported. “At about 1:00 p.m. Moscow time [09:00 GMT] unidentified assailants attacked a police patrol in the Botlikhsky district, near [...]
Archives: 09 August 2012
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
Russia to Stem Chinese Migrant Flow to Far East
Russian authorities will work to curb excessive migration to the country’s sparsely populated Far Eastern regions, as well as the emergence of immigrant enclaves nationwide, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “The task remains of protecting our Far Eastern territories from excessive expansion from neighboring states,” Medvedev said at a governmental meeting in Moscow. [...]
August 9, 2012
Court Rejects Russian’s Claim to Vatican
Russia’s Supreme Court has overturned an appeal from a Russian national who urged the country’s judiciary to recognize his ownership of the Vatican, the court’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. “The court has reviewed an appeal from Roman Lugovoi, who requested the establishment of Vatican inheritance and property rights. The appeal has been dismissed,” the spokeswoman [...]
August 9, 2012
Moscow Blasts Riga’s Decision on Russian Journalists
Latvia can expect an appropriate response from Moscow for its decision to declare two prominent Russian journalists personae non gratae, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday. The Latvian Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that Modest Kolerov, the former editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, and Igor Pavlovsky, the current deputy editor, secretly undermined [...]
August 9, 2012
Two More Get Jail Sentences in Magadan Governor Murder
A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced two more men convicted of plotting to murder a Russian regional governor almost ten years ago. The governor of the Magadan Region in Russia’s Far East Valentin Tsvetkov was shot dead before his wife as he exited his representative office in Moscow in October 2002. At the time, President [...]
August 9, 2012
Activist Leader Limonov Fined for Protest
A Moscow court slapped opposition activist and firebrand nationalist Eduard Limonov with a 12,000-ruble ($380) fine on Thursday for his part in organizing an unsanctioned protest in downtown Moscow on July 31. The punishment was imposed in line with new legislation introduced in June which significantly raises fines for participating in and organizing unsanctioned public [...]
August 9, 2012
Arrest Warrant Issued in $7.5 Mln FAPSI Fraud Case
Moscow police have issued an arrest warrant for Sergei Chupryna on charges of stealing $7.5 million from the family of the late Alexander Starovoitov, who headed the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI) in 1991-1998. Chupryna remains at large, the newspaper Izvestia previously reported. His alleged accomplice, Max Mueller, faces separate charges in [...]
August 9, 2012
‘I Spoke to Putin After Conflict Began,’ Medvedev Insists
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev insisted on Thursday he first spoke with then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the evening of August 8, 2008, after the conflict in South Ossetia had already begun, apparently contradicting Putin’s own comments a day earlier about communcation between the two leaders. “I will once again repeat what happened. During the evening [...]
August 9, 2012
Exhumation of Addict Who Died in Rehab Begins
Representatives of the Gorod Bez Narkotikov rehabilitation foundation said on Thursday that the exhumation of the body of one of its patients who died in dubious circumstances has begun in Nizhny Tagil. The deceased patient, Tatyana Kazantseva, 29, was an addict placed in the one of the foundation’s rehabilitation centers in the village of Sarapulka [...]
August 9, 2012
Watchdog Pegs Patriarch Kirill for Nobel Prize in Econ
A consumer rights watchdog requested on Thursday to have the head of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economics in a tongue-in-cheek jab at the church’s questioned economic operations. Patriarch Kirill, along with Moscow District Court Judge Igor Kananovich, are eligible for the Nobel Prize in Economics because they disproved [...]
August 9, 2012
Five Policemen, Three Militants Killed in Dagestan
At least five police officers and three militants were killed on Thursday in a shootout in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the regional interior ministry said in an updated report. Earlier reports said three policemen were killed and one wounded when unknown assailants attacked a police patrol in the Botlikhsky district, near the village [...]
August 9, 2012
Moscow Urges Egypt to Ensure Tourist Safety in Sinai
Russia expects the Egyptian authorities to ensure an adequate level of security for tourists in the course of the antiterrorist operation on the Sinai Peninsula, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The Egyptian army said on Wednesday it will continue the crackdown on extremist groups in the Sinai Peninsula to restore regional stability. “We [...]
August 9, 2012
Leftist Leader Detained Near ‘Russian FBI’
A leader of the recent anti-Kremlin protests was detained in Moscow on Thursday during an unsanctioned picket near the Russian Investigative Committee. Sergei Udaltsov announced his own detention in a Twitter message sent from a paddy wagon. The announcement was later confirmed by city police. Udaltsov tried to organize some 50 protesters into a human [...]
August 9, 2012
Russia Confirms Death of 3 Citizens in Turkey Chopper Crash
Three Russians were among five people killed in a helicopter crash in southwestern Turkey on Thursday, Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said. “The Kamov Ka-52 helicopter belonged to the Nefteyugansk Air Group. The helicopter flew seven forest firefighting missions in the area through the day,” Rosaviatsia spokesman told RIA Novosti. “According to preliminary investigation, the [...]