Russian forces say Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov could have been among those killed during fighting in the volatile North Caucasus region, the Russian daily Kommersant said on Tuesday. Seventeen rebels were killed on Monday in an attack on a base in Ingushetia used by Islamist insurgents to train suicide bombers, Russia’s anti-terror committee said. [...]
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March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011
Sukhoi Superjet 100 to start Aeroflot flights in May
Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot said on Tuesday it will begin regular commercial flights of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 in mid-May. The company has placed orders for 40 models of the aircraft, which will initially conduct flights between Moscow and the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The Super-jet, championed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is [...]
March 29, 2011
The Situation in Japan is Worse Than you Believe… (Russian News)
Japanese authorities said that the situation in the nuclear power plant emergency is very serious. Nuclear engineers are trying to pump radioactive water from the first reactor. In the soil at the station found plutonium, and the particles of radioactive iodine were detected in the atmosphere over the U.S., China and Iceland… Tuesday at the [...]
March 29, 2011
Two members of Russian ‘spy ring’ file property claim against U.S.
Two members of Russian ‘spy ring’ file property claim against U.S. Two of the 10 Russians deported from the United States in a spy row last July have demanded that some of the property they were forced to leave behind be returned to them. The claim was lodged by the legal counsel for Vladimir and [...]
March 29, 2011
What’s Happening in Libya? Asks Russia With Dismay…
What’s Happening in Libya? Asks Russia With Dismay… With the help of coalition air strikes, anti-Gadhafi forces are making sustained progress toward the Libyan capital Tripoli. The Western military intervention appears to have entered a new phase. Instead of just protecting civilians as foreseen under the UN resolution, coalition forces are actively supporting rebel fighters. [...]
March 29, 2011
Russia Today: NATO war in Libya still run by America…
Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo airports to be merged and privatized says Putin Two of Moscow’s main airports, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, are to be merged and sold as part of the country’s privatization program, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Together with the Moscow mayor, Transport Minister and Finance Ministry officials we have agreed to unify [...]
March 28, 2011
Seems Russians Would Like Versatility in Politics…
Seems Russians Would Like Versatility in Politics… Russia is threatening a political crisis and the Russian government is less legitimate in the eyes of the citizens, from the report by the Center for Strategic Research. Ending this political crisis requires fair elections, the loss of most of the “United Russia” people in the State Duma [...]
March 28, 2011
Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo airports to be merged and privatized says Putin
Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo airports to be merged and privatized says Putin Two of Moscow’s main airports, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, are to be merged and sold as part of the country’s privatization program, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Together with the Moscow mayor, Transport Minister and Finance Ministry officials we have agreed to unify [...]
March 28, 2011
Putin finds opportunity in Libya…
Putin finds opportunity in Libya… Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized the UN Security Council resolution on Libya for allowing foreign military intervention in a sovereign state. Putin called the resolution “defective and flawed,” adding that “it allows everything and is reminiscent of a medieval call for a crusade.” Putin noted that Russia, which [...]
March 28, 2011
Russia’s Sergei Lavrov: Coalition Forces are out of tune with the UN resolution…
Russia’s Sergei Lavrov: Coalition Forces are out of tune with the UN resolution… The military intervention by the Western-led coalition force in Libya’s civil war is out of tune with the relevant UN Security Council resolution, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “We believe that the coalition’s intervention in the civil war [in [...]
March 28, 2011
That Cup of Coffee: My Last bad habit in Russia…
That Cup of Coffee: My Last bad habit in Russia… As I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee this morning. I was doing some thinking’s about the bad habits and issues that I have dropped since coming to Russia… For those that follow the blog from the beginning you know that I use to [...]
March 28, 2011
March 27, 2011
Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape
Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive legacy. An official guide at the wrecked nuclear power plant, he waves his radiation counter at a group of abandoned Soviet army vehicles that were used in the battle to clean up the contamination created by the [...]
March 27, 2011
Anna Chapman: Agent provocateur
Anna Chapman: Agent provocateur Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, says she bears no ill will towards the man who betrayed her. And why should she? Since being freed as part of a dramatic spy swap deal [...]