The Russian PM holds his annual QA session with Russian voters, following street protests over his rule and alleged election fraud Link to this video Vladimir Putin dismissed the thousands of protesters who have massed against his rule as agents of the west in his first response to the growing discontent during a marathon phone-in [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Russia’s Altai court closes VIP poaching case
A district court in the south Siberian Altai Republic closed a criminal case of illegal hunting of an endangered mountain sheep species due to a statute of limitations, a court spokesman said on Friday. Three officials were charged with poaching after a helicopter they were traveling in crashed in January 2009, and dead wild rams [...]
December 13, 2011
Top blogger Navalny challenges his arrest in European court
Lawyers of anti-corruption activist and top blogger Alexei Navalny and opposition leader Ilya Yashin, detained during protests last week, lodged their complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Both men have been sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police orders during protests in Moscow last Monday against the allegedly fraudulent December [...]
December 11, 2011
South Ossetian Presidential Aspirant Says Moscow Unaware Of Real Situation
The disqualified winner of the presidential election in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia says Russian leaders are unaware of the real situation in that Caucasus territory, RFE/RL’s Echo of the Caucasus Service reports. Alla Dzhioyeva, a surprise winner of the vote count over a Kremlin-backed candidate in a November 27 election annulled by a [...]
December 8, 2011
United Russia supporters rally in Moscow
United Russia supporters gathered for a rally in Moscow following the Duma elections on Sunday. The crowd was in a celebratory mood, waving flags as music blared from loudspeakers and displaying portraits of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, but the opposition Yabloko party promised to contest the results in court
December 8, 2011
Russian retiree wants to annul his marriage, says never been married
An 80-year old pensioner in Russia’s Urals went to court, seeking the annulment of his marriage because, he claims, he does not remember getting married, the press service of a local court in the Chelyabinsk region reported on Wednesday. The man had lived with his wife since1974 but their relationship soured and they broke [...]
December 6, 2011
Ex-Miss Russia jailed again in NY
Former Russian beauty queen Anna Malova has been sent back to jail in New York after she got kicked off the rehabilitation program prescribed to her by a court for assaulting a fellow patient. Charges against Malova deal with her repeatedly forging prescriptions to get painkillers. She is accused of stealing prescription forms from her [...]
December 5, 2011
December 4, 2011
Nadal overwhelms Del Potro to clinch Davis Cup for Spain
Spain have won the Davis Cup after their number one Rafael Nadal recovered from a terrible start to hold on to beat Juan Martin del Potro in four sets to give the hosts an insurmountable 3-1 lead. Del Potro hit the ground running and Nadal soon found himself one set behind. The Argentinian gave him [...]
December 4, 2011
Norwegian mass murderer Breivik insists he is sane
Mass murderer and right-wing extremist Anders Breivik, the man behind the worst massacre in Norway since the Second World War, disputes the conclusion of psychiatrists that he is criminally insane. Speaking to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang, Odd Ivar Groen, one of Breivik’s lawyers, said that after discussing the 243-page report with his client for [...]
December 3, 2011
Moscow customs confiscate laptop from senior election monitor
Moscow airport customs confiscated a laptop on Saturday from the leader of the Golos independent election monitoring group accused of violations ahead of the Sunday parliamentary polls. Golos has denied all charges. The laptop was confiscated from Liliya Shibanova, head of the U.S.-funded non-governmental Golos organization, for “expert examination” when she arrived at the Sheremetyevo [...]
December 3, 2011
U.S. philanthropist gets 15 years for sex with Russian minor
A Pennsylvania court sentenced U.S. businessman and patron of arts Kenneth Schneider to 15 years in jail for having intimate relations with a Russian teenaged ballet dancer, NBC said on Saturday. Prosecutor Michael Levy said Schneider, 46, who had contributed to charity actions in the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in 1998, had been charged [...]
December 3, 2011
S.Ossetia protesters refuse to leave square for Duma polls
Thousands of opposition protesters in the partly recognized South Ossetian republic have refused to leave the square to cast their votes in the Russian parliamentary elections due on Sunday. The protesters, most of whom have Russian citizenship, are rallying in support of former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva who won the November 27 runoff presidential polls [...]
December 3, 2011
Spain one step away from Davis Cup title
The Spanish team are well on course for a fifth straight Davis Cup victory, having taken a strong 2-0 lead in the tournament’s finals against Argentina. First, Rafael Nadal claimed a straight-sets victory over Juan Monaco in the first rubber. The World number two dropped only four games throughout the entire match, claiming a confident [...]