In a blog post dedicated to the Cyprus problem, the CEO of SAXO Bank tries to prove that the European politicians are guilty of creating the conditions for the crisis. In his view “the one thing that went wrong for Cyprus was its bankers expecting that Euro zone politicians could be trusted to pay back [...]
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April 7, 2011
9 Russians in Fight to Keep Citizenship
Igor Tabakov / MT The Foreign Ministry building in downtown Moscow looming in the morning fog. The ministry lost records of at least nine Russians living abroad. Imagine waking up one morning without your citizenship. That’s what essentially happened to at least nine Russians after their names simply vanished from Foreign Ministry computers. Viktor Gorn, [...]
April 7, 2011
Convicted Murderer, Slowly Dying, Demands Euthanasia
A convicted murderer who is dying of diabetes has asked to be put to death rather than to slowly waste away in prison. The request for euthanasia, which cannot legally be granted in Russia, comes after judges have persistently refused to free the bed-ridden veteran of the Chechen war – even though the law gives [...]
April 7, 2011
Spaceship with Russians, American docks with ISS
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American on Thursday successfully docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day journey, TASS news agency quoted the mission control centre as saying.
April 7, 2011
Russia to rescue Serbia from Natos claws
Serbia may become one of the largest buyers of Russian arms. This can become possible after Vladimir Putin
April 7, 2011
Russia summons Bank of Moscow chief in fraud probe
MOSCOW (AFP) ndash; Russian investigators have issued a summons for the president of the Bank of Moscow, reportedly hiding in London, in their probe of an alleged fraudulent loan, the RIA Novosti agency said. The bank chief, Andrei Borodin, was reported by Russian news agencies Tuesday to have fled in fear of criminal prosecution over [...]
April 7, 2011
Probe into Russian Su-27 jet crash could take 30 days
It would take Russian investigators at least a month to establish the cause of an accident with a Su-27SM Flanker fighter jet that crashed in Russia’s Far East on Wednesday, a military source said. The jet crashed during the landing at an airbase near Vladivostok after a routine training flight. The pilot ejected successfully and [...]
April 7, 2011
NASA plans to use ISS in preparation for flights to Mars
The work on the International Space Station will be the focus of the U.S. human space program for the next decade and it will be the first step in preparation for future manned flights to Mars, the head of NASA said. “ISS is an anchor for the future of human space exploration and major component [...]
April 7, 2011
Russia to hand over new Katyn massacre files to Poland
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian prosecutors will hand over to Poland on Thursday another batch of documents on the Katyn massacre following a request by Polish investigators. The Katyn massacre, in which thousands of officers, police and civilians taken prisoner during the 1939 partitioning of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany [...]
April 7, 2011
Russian spacecraft docks with ISS
The Russian Soyuz TMA-21 manned spacecraft – nicknamed ‘Gagarin’ – docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, the mission control said. The spacecraft has been named ‘Gagarin’ to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin’s first flight in space. It is carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenko, and American astronaut Ronald Garan. [...]
April 7, 2011
Russia sends Poland files on presidential plane crash
Russian prosecutors have sent Poland 14 volumes of files on the investigation into the Polish presidential plane crash near Russia’s Smolensk city, ahead of the the first anniversary of the deadly accident. The then Poland president Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, and 94 passengers onboard the presidential plane were killed in the air crash near [...]
April 6, 2011
Bank of Moscow head Borodin not seeking political asylum in Britain
Bank of Moscow’s head Andrei Borodin said on Wednesday he is not seeking political asylum in Great Britain. “I’m not seeking [political asylum],” Borodin told RIA Novosti in a telephone conversation in regard to news reports on the contrary. Earlier Borodin told RIA Novosti that he is in Britain undergoing medical treatment and would return [...]
April 6, 2011
Russian Energy Minister Shmatko expects to lose seat on RusHydro board of directors
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko is expecting his pink slip from the government to leave his job on the board of directors at the state-run RusHydro, following an initiative by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to remove ministers from the boards by July 1. “I believe that very shortly the Russian government’s position will be formulated [...]
April 6, 2011
Investor consortium ready to buy Bank of Moscow share from VTB
Bank of Moscow’s embattled CEO Andrei Borodin said a few investors, including Russian, were ready to join a consortium to buy out the bank’s shares from VTB, the banker said on Wednesday. A fight for control over Bank of Moscow has been going on since February, when Russia’s second largest bank, state-controlled VTB announced a [...]