Construction terms for a bridge in Vladivostok, which caught fire on Monday afternoon, will remain unchanged, a deputy head of the construction company said on Tuesday. The bridge is among infrastructure objects to be built for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in 2012. It will connect the mainland part of the city with Russky Island, [...]
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December 13, 2011
December 2, 2011
Pakistan Upset by NATO
Pakistan Upset by NATO The Associated Press Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Tuesday it would boycott an upcoming meeting in Germany on Afghanistan to protest the deadly weekend attack by U.S.-led forces on its troops, widening the fallout from an incident that has sent ties between Washington and Islamabad [...]
November 26, 2011
Bombed for nothing: Everyday life on Israeli-Gaza border
Despite all calls for peaceful negotiations, rockets and violence are part of life on the Israeli-Gaza border. As civilians bear the brunt of the conflict, Faisal Malaka from Gaza told RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova how it feels to live there. “Why do you always come after the war and destruction? Why don’t you want to stop [...]
November 26, 2011
NATO helicopters fire on checkpoint, 8 killed – Pakistan military
NATO helicopters have fired on a checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, according to the country’s military. Eight army soldiers have been reported killed, five more wounded. The military says the incident occurred on Friday night in the Mohmand tribal area near the Afghan border, AP reports. Two intelligence officials and one government official, speaking on condition [...]
November 24, 2011
Another fire on river boat in Moscow put out
The second fire in ten days broke out at the ill-fated Sergei Abramov river boat moored in Moscow, and was put out shortly after midnight Tuesday Moscow time, an emergencies service spokesman said. Another fire broke out late on Wednesday during post-fire works, presumably when flammable isolation materials caught fire during welding. It spread to [...]
November 3, 2011
Three people killed after three cars collide in west of Moscow
Three people were killed after three cars crashed late on Wednesday on one of the main Moscow avenues in the west of the Russian capital, a police source said. “A Volga and Lada cars collided with each other on the Kutuzovsky Avenue and then both crashed into a Mercedes. After the crash a fire engulfed [...]
October 12, 2011
Remand system under fire as Moscow headmaster dies
Russia’s penal system is once again at the center of a scandal after a Moscow headmaster died whilst on remand in a Stalin-era jail. Andrei Kudoyarov, 48, who was being held on suspicion of accepting a $7,600 bribe to admit a child into his school, died on Saturday from acute heart failure in Moscow’s SIZO [...]
October 1, 2011
Captain, sailor acquitted over sub disaster
A jury has dropped negligence charges against the captain of a Russian nuclear submarine in which 20 people died when a fire suppressant system was accidentally set off three years ago. Seventeen of the dead were civilians, killed when fire-suppressant freon gas was released on the Nerpa attack submarine during sea trials in the Sea [...]
June 30, 2011
Russian court allows police, officials to criticize state institutions
Russia’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday in favor of two former state officials who filed complaints after they were sacked for criticizing the institutions they worked for. Lyubov Kondratyeva, the former chief tax inspector from Russia’s Federal Tax Service, was fired after he criticized the tax service’s system of repaying travel allowances during an interview [...]
June 30, 2011
Tymoshenko Goes on Trial
Yulia Tymoshenko kissing a supporter outside a Kiev court on Wednesday. KIEV — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko went on trial on Wednesday on charges of abuse of power in a case that has raised Western concerns over President Viktor Yanukovych’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law. Western reaction is important since Ukraine, a major grain and steel exporter, badly needs outside investment and is [...]
June 30, 2011
In Tit-for-Tat, Russia Wants to Blacklist Foreigners
With the United States considering sanctions on Russian officials implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Foreign Ministry has turned to the State Duma with a blacklist of its own. But instead of punishing other countries for human rights abuses against their own citizens, the ministry would blacklist foreigners deemed to have violated the rights of Russian citizens. Under a bill submitted to the Duma on Tuesday, blacklisted foreigners [...]
June 30, 2011
Expat Airline Executives Out on Street
Avianova CEO Andrew Pyne, pictured in August, says the eviction is illegal and couldn’t have been authorized by shareholders without his knowledge. The CEO and other senior expatriate executives of Avianova, the country’s fourth-largest airline, said Wednesday that they have been evicted from their offices in an apparent coup. But the executives said they would not walk away from Avianova, a joint venture between [...]
June 29, 2011
TNK-BP Resists Cuts in Its Exports to Poland, Belarus
TNK-BP is pushing back after its temporary exclusion from the pipeline export route to Poland and cuts in crude volumes it can ship to Belarus, its chief oil trader said Tuesday. TNK-BP clawed back some volumes but the allocations it got for the third quarter remain below previous levels, said Jonathan Kollek, senior vice president for sales, trading and logistics. “After 10 years of working [...]
June 29, 2011
New Report Links Quality of Life, Money to Democracy
New Report Links Quality of Life, Money to Democracy By Olga Kuvshinova Vedomosti Published: June 29, 2011 (Issue # 1663) MOSCOW — When per capita contribution to gross domestic product reaches $10,000, democracy becomes “eternal,” according to a Renaissance Capital report. Improvement in quality of life leads to the establishment of democracy, says the report, based on the histories of 150 countries over the past [...]