SOCHI, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, a horde city for a 2014 Winter Olympic Games, pronounced on Friday he hoped a Russian supervision would behind a UN General Assembly fortitude job for regard of an Olympic Truce during a event. The [...]
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013
UMMC is compelling copper-powder products on Asian markets
17.05.2013 — News SVERDLOVSK REGION Uralelectromed, OJSC (part of a Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company) for a initial time has taken partial in Shanghai’s general exhibition, a China International Powder Metallurgy Industry Exhibition (PM Expo-2013). UMMC’s press bureau told RusBusinessNews that a primary idea of participating in a metallurgy uncover was to foster high-value-added products [...]
May 17, 2013
Drones to Keep Tabs on Russia’s Bears and Poachers
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are to be tested during a inlet haven on Russia’s Pacific seashore this summer to assistance lane wildlife and moment down on poachers, an central from a haven pronounced Friday. “UAVs are wordless and can fly during a really low altitude to furnish high-resolution [...]
May 17, 2013
Russia’s Q1 GDP Growth Slumps to 1.6%
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s GDP grew only 1.6 percent in a initial entertain of this year, a fifth uninterrupted quarterly fall, a Federal Statistics Service pronounced on Friday. That is some-more optimistic, however, than Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach’s progressing guess of expansion negligence to 1.1 percent. In April, a method [...]
May 17, 2013
Animal Cruelty Video Sparks Internet Outrage in Russia
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti/The Moscow News) – Hidden camera footage apparently depicting Russian playground trainers violence monkeys with a hang has sparked snub on a Internet and among animal rights activists. The 11-minute video starts by display monkeys removing strike regularly – it seems while being lerned to do tricks. Other sections of a [...]
May 17, 2013
Russia Counting on UN for Post-ISAF Afghanistan Proposals
SOCHI, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is counting on a UN to rise proposals per a ubiquitous participation in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pronounced on Friday. “We cruise it critical to start deliberating in allege what forms of [international] participation there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count [...]
May 17, 2013
Russia’s Putin Making The Chess Board Moves…
The Mediterranean has become the latest chess move by Putin. It is a huge move and sets a stage that I saw coming, as games were being played by both sides to stall for time. Time for much different moves on the chess board as we have all just found out. Russia has let America [...]
May 17, 2013
Moscow ‘Hopeful’ on Syria Chemical Weapons Inspections
SOCHI, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russia hopes that a Syrian authorities and a UN will determine on general inspections to demeanour into a probable use of chemical weapons in a country’s polite war, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pronounced on Friday. “As distant we know, a Syrian government… has voiced willingness – after that place [...]
May 17, 2013
Lavrov Plays Down Reports of New Missile Deliveries to Syria
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday responded to a New York Times news that Russia has sent modernized antiship journey missiles to war-torn Syria by observant that Russian arms deliveries do not change a change of power, are entirely authorised and take place underneath existent contracts. Citing unclear [...]
May 17, 2013
Moscow Authorities Refuse to Sanction LGBT ‘Rainbow Rally’
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow City Hall has refused a ask by LGBT activists to reason a “Rainbow Rally” in Moscow’s Gorky Park on May 25, citing final day of propagandize festivities scheduled for a same day. Earlier, an proclamation on Rainbow Rally’s Facebook page pronounced that a convene with about 200 people [...]
May 17, 2013
Russia to Join FATCA Tax Watchdog
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Finance Ministry and a US Treasury Department should shortly finalize an agreement on Russia’s advent to a Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov pronounced on Friday. Russia’s advent to FATCA was discussed during a G20 financial ministers assembly in Washington in April, he [...]
May 17, 2013
Why? Russia Asks: Because it Scares the Hell out of the West and its Plans…
Over eight years ago I met the most wonderful Russian woman in the world! What started as friends on the Internet per e-mails and text messages, became a dream come true for this American… I moved to Russia seven years ago and have never, one time in all those years, regretted that move to Russia. [...]
May 17, 2013
Tech Company CEOs Arrested in Glonass Embezzlement Case
MOSCOW, May 17 (RAPSI) – The prior and stream ubiquitous directors of high-tech organisation Synertech have been arrested on guess of embezzling supports from a sovereign module for a Glonass satellite navigation system, a Interior Ministry’s Moscow Department pronounced on Friday. The stream arch executive officer was taken into custody, and a former CEO was [...]
May 17, 2013
Auction House Puts Rare Art on Show in Moscow
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti/ The Moscow News) – Prior to their sale this summer by London auctioneers Sotheby’s, a singular collection of works from some of a art world’s many eminent names will be exhibited in Moscow’s state muster hall, Novy Manezh, this weekend. Notable pieces embody paintings by Pablo Picasso, El Greco, Natalia [...]
May 17, 2013
Court Annuls Extension of Bolotnaya Suspect’s Detention
Court Annuls Extension of Bolotnaya Suspect’s Detention The St. Petersburg Times Published: May 17, 2013 (Issue # 1759) A Moscow court on Thursday delivered a rare victory to a suspect in the politically charged “Bolotnaya case,” overturning a decision to extend opposition activist Vladimir Akimenkov’s arrest on charges that he participated in violence at an [...]
