The Russian billionaire who this week announced his challenge to Vladimir Putin for Russia’s upcoming presidential election says his first move, if elected, would be to pardon jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Mikhail Prokhorov, a metals magnate estimated to be worth some $18 billion, announced this week that he would seek the presidency in March. Khodorkovsky, [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 12, 2011
Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s third richest man, to challenge Putin
Russia‘s third richest man has said that he would seek to challenge Vladimir Putin for the presidency, prompting speculation that the surprise move could be part of a Kremlin attempt to channel growing middle class opposition to Putin’s regime. “I have made a decision, probably the most serious decision of my life,” the oligarch Mikhail [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian election protests in Moscow
Thousands take to the streets of the Russian capital to protest against the highly disputed parliamentary elections and Vladimir Putin’s attempt to become president once more
November 27, 2011
One militant killed, another wounded in shop bomb attempt in Dagestan
One militant was killed and another wounded in an attempt to plant a bomb near a shop in the town of Buinaksk in the volatile Russian North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the republican interior ministry reported on Sunday. The bomb went off when two unidentified persons tried to plant an explosive device early on Sunday [...]
November 26, 2011
Britain unites with smaller countries to block US bid to legalise cluster bombs
A coalition of countries including Britain on Friday defeated an attempt by the US, Russia, China and Israel to get an international agreement approving the continued use of cluster bombs. The weapons, which have been used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon scatter “bomblets” over a wide area, maiming and killing civilians, notably children, long after [...]
November 23, 2011
Last attempt to contact Phobos-Grunt
Stations of the European Space Agency located in South America, Australia and the Canary Islands will try on Tuesday night to establish contact with the Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft that is stranded at a low-Earth orbit after launch, the managing directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “The ESA team will make the last attempt [...]
November 13, 2011
Russians win fourth gold at World Weightlifting Championships in Paris
Russia’s weightlifter Khadzhimurat Akkaev has brought his country a fourth gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships in Paris with a 105kg division. The 26-year-old reigning European Champion traded lifts with his 28-year-old teammate Dmitry Klokov, the Beijing Olympic Silver medallist. And the pair left noroom for anyone else in what became a two-horse race. [...]
November 8, 2011
Abkhazia, South Ossetia Alarmed By Russia-Georgia WTO Compromise
The de facto authorities in the breakaway Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have expressed concern and outrage over the implications of the Swiss-mediated compromise between Georgia and Russia that paves the way for Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Whether they can thwart the signing and implementation of that agreement is [...]
October 26, 2011
‘Eurasian Union not a phantom USSR’
There will be no attempt to resurrect the USSR, Kazakh President Nazarbaev has stated in an article devoted to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s proposal to create a Eurasian Union comprising Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. “The Eurasian Union has every chance of becoming an integral part of the world economic architecture, the formation of which [...]
October 26, 2011
Residents Fear Program Will Lead to Evictions
Residents Fear Program Will Lead to Evictions Preservationists say the program is an attempt by developers to seize the land and make profit. By Sergey Chernov The St. Petersburg Times Published: October 26, 2011 (Issue # 1680) Concerned St. Petersburg residents congregated at City Hall on Tuesday to protest a controversial renovation program backed by [...]
October 23, 2011
October 1, 2011
World’s first successful uterus transplant performed in Turkey
Derya Sert, who was born without a uterus, has become the first woman in the world to receive a womb from a deceased donor. The operation, performed on August 9 by doctors from Akdeniz University Hospital in southern Turkey, has been a success. “The womb has already become one of my own organs,” Al Arabiya [...]
September 29, 2011
How Dare Russia Question and Comment About the Western Intentions…
Several Western nations at the UN (Particularly US, France and Britain) rejected what they called a Russian attempt to equalize government attacks on civilians with violent acts fomented by the opposition, while at the same time Russia speaks belittling of what it calls a stealth attempt by the West to bring about regime change in [...]
September 23, 2011
Internet regulation no threat to freedom of expression
Content regulation on the Internet for antiterrorism purposes has nothing to do with an attempt to “curb freedom of expression,” a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Friday. “We do not agree with some of our partners that such regulation is an attempt to stifle the media or to muzzle it,” department chief Ilya Rogachyov [...]