Eurocrats, freshly humbled by a diplomatic failure at their Brussels summit, have been joined by bankers bearing the same old gifts of austerity, bailouts and instructions on what to do next. Is it all just feeding the flames under the Euro-kettle? Running a business is never easy, even a small one, like this German company [...]
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December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
Chief Prosecutor sees no reason for election re-run
Russia’s Prosecutor General has said he sees no reason to cancel the results of the December 4 parliamentary poll, but has promised to hold an investigation into all reported violations. “I think there are no grounds for setting a new election date or recounting the votes after the results of the voting,” Yuri Chaika told [...]
December 2, 2011
Russia may open case against man cleared of Russian toddler death
Russia’s Investigation Committee has every reason to start a criminal case against a U.S. resident whom a U.S. court cleared of suspicion of killing his Russian adoptive son, Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said on Friday. The boy, Isaac Dykstra, was born in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region in 2003 and was adopted by 35-year-old Brian and [...]
December 2, 2011
Disqualified South Ossetian Candidate Won’t Meet With Russian Official
TSKHINVALI — Alla Dzhioyeva, the disqualified South Ossetian presidential candidate, says she does not see any reason to hold talks with a Kremlin representative who arrived in the breakaway Georgian province on December 2. Dzhioyeva said she saw no point in meeting Sergei Vinokurov, a representative of Russia’s presidential administration, accusing Russian officials of siding [...]
November 28, 2011
New York prosecutors see no reason to review Bout verdict
New York prosecutors see no reason to doubt the jury verdict in the case of convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, defense team member Viktor Garkusha said on Monday. On November 12 the defense team led by lawyer Albert Dayan said it appealed the verdict citing ‘prejudice’ on the part of at least one juror. [...]
November 16, 2011
Moscow cops told to pay up for ignoring bus lane rules
Several dozen police officers in Moscow are to learn a bitter lesson after they were told to pay hefty fines for driving in the city’s bus lanes for no apparent reason. Forty-four officers have been spotted abusing the lanes, Moscow traffic police chief Vladimir Tomchak said. There was “no professional necessity to account for this,” [...]
November 16, 2011
Faulty weather forecast cause of White Sea cargo ship distress
A storm in the White Sea was determined the cause of why a cargo ship, the Kapitan Kuznetsov, went missing for 24 hours, the shipowner said on Wednesday. “The reason the ship was forced to stop its engines was due to a storm, despite the weather forecast that the crew received four days ago,” the [...]
November 13, 2011
November 12, 2011
Putin says role of intl forces in Afghanistan "not very effective"
The international forces in Afghanistan play a positive role but are not operating very effectively, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting with members of the Valdai discussion club. “We believe that the international forces are playing a positive role in Afghanistan. It must be said they are not acting very [...]
October 28, 2011
West weighs its interests over Syria intervention
With 20 people reportedly killed by Syrian security forces in anti-government protests on Friday, opposition activists are now urging protesters to rally for a no-fly zone over the country – a move tantamount to foreign intervention. Stop the War Coalition activist Jim Brann believes that the reason why the US and its allies haven’t yet [...]
October 21, 2011
Russian Foreign Minister rebuffs McCain’s dig at Putin
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday lashed out at U.S. Senator John McCain, who called the death of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi “reason to be nervous” for powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. “I think dictators all over the world, including Bashar al-Assad, maybe even Mr. Putin, maybe some Chinese, maybe all of them, may [...]
October 20, 2011
Russia can live without WTO accession says Medvedev
Russia will live on even if the World Trade Organization (WTO) rejects its membership bid, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. “If we are told that we are not fit for it for some reason, we can live without it. This is absolutely true and I am absolutely sincere,” Medvedev said. “Everybody, and our partners [...]
October 18, 2011
US is about to stir another hornets’ nest
America’s plan to send commandos to Africa to help eliminate terrorists in Uganda appears to have all the ingredients for getting the US military bogged down in a new prolonged Afghan-like military quagmire. Washington made public plans to deploy around 100 special operations troops to Uganda to help local forces fight the Lord’s Resistance Army, [...]
October 17, 2011
‘KFOR aiding Albanians in building illegal state’
NATO forces have extended a deadline for the Serbs of northern Kosovo to remove barricades near the border with Serbia. They have been told to clear the roadblocks by early Tuesday or face forced removal. Political analyst Aleksandar Pavic from Belgrade says that if KFOR dismantles the barricades, it would contradict its stated peacekeeping mission. [...]