A small Chinese village has attracted the international spotlight after a ‘twin brother’ of Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin was spotted among its residents. The peasant with a very familiar appearance was found by a local newspaper correspondent, who happened to stop by. Amazed, the journalist sent a photo to his paper. The shot made such [...]
Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
November 15, 2011
October 7, 2011
September 24, 2011
US Diplomacy Fail – Palestine’s statehood bid at UN
After America’s fruitless attempts to get Palestine to change its mind about placing an official bid for statehood at the United Nations, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas goes ahead with Palestine’s wishes for recognition at the international body. RT takes a look at the Obama administration’s waning ability to control the Middle East peace process. There [...]
September 18, 2011
Putin Nominated for Confucius Peace Prize in China…
Putin nominated for Chinese peace prize 19:25 17/09/2011 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been nominated for a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize, Confucius Peace Prize, the Chinese news portal sina.com said on Saturday. The Confucius Peace Prize emerged for the first time in 2010, when it was suddenly announced by a shadowy [...]
September 18, 2011
Main news of September 17
WORLD * Pro-Russian party is emerging as the winner in the Latvian early parliamentary elections for the first time in 20 years since the tiny Baltic state restored independence, exit polls showed * Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been nominated for a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize, Confucius Peace Prize, the Chinese [...]
June 22, 2011
Yelena Bonner In Her Own Right
At the 90th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth in Moscow on May 21 this year, the ranks of Sakharov’s cohorts were already thinner. Figures like veteran rights campaigner Larissa Bogoraz and scientist Valentin Turchin had died in recent years, and people felt that if they didn’t get to the 90th, they might not see people [...]
June 22, 2011
Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov’s Widow, Dead at 88
Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov’s Widow, Dead at 88 The Associated Press Published: June 22, 2011 (Issue # 1662) Sergei Karpukhin / The Associated Press Yelena Bonner, photographed in 1994. BOSTON — Yelena Bonner, a rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said Sunday. She was 88. Bonner died of heart failure Saturday [...]
June 21, 2011
Yelena Bonner, Sakharov’s Widow, Dead at 88
Yelena Bonner addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg in 2008. BOSTON — Yelena Bonner, a rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said Sunday. She was 88. Bonner died of heart failure Saturday afternoon in Boston, according to her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. She had been hospitalized since Feb. 21, Yankelevich said. Bonner grew famous [...]
June 19, 2011
EU’s Barroso, Buzek express condolences over Bonner’s death
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek expressed their condolences over a death of a human rights activist and the widow of the late Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner. Bonner died on Saturday in Boston, the U.S., at the age of 88 [...]
June 19, 2011
Main news of June 19
Russia: * Russia expects to receive on Monday a strain of the highly virulent E.Coli infection that has killed over 30 people in Europe and forced the Russian authorities to impose a ban on vegetable imports from the European Union, Russia’s sanitary chief Gennady Onishchenko said * Firefighters and rescuers in Russia’s Far East extinguished [...]
June 19, 2011
U.S. govt. offers condolences over Yelena Bonner’s death
The U.S. Department of State has expressed condolences over the death of Yelena Bonner, a human rights activist and the widow of the late Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Bonner died on June 18 in the United States at the age of 88 after a grave illness. “We note with profound [...]
June 19, 2011
Sakharov’s widow Yelena Bonner dies at 88 in U.S.
Yelena Bonner, a human rights activist and the widow of the late Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, died in the U.S. at the age of 88, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported on Sunday. Bonner died on Saturday in Boston after a grave illness, the radio station said, referring to human rights [...]
June 19, 2011
Russian Dissident Yelena Bonner Dies
Russian media have reported that prominent Soviet-era Russian dissident Yelena Bonner passed away on June 18 at the age of 88. Bonner, a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group rights monitor in 1976, was a vocal critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin and longtime defender of democracy in Russia. Her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich, said [...]
May 21, 2011
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov – deputy and dissident 11:18 21/05/2011 May 21 will be the 90th anniversary of the birth of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov. One of the fathers of the Soviet H-bomb and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sakharov was also a politician and dissident. He died at the age of 68 in 1989, having spent seven years [...]