Ex-Spymaster Convicted Of Betraying Chapman ‘Mary, try to take it calmly. I’m leaving … forever,’ Poteyev wrote. By Alexander Bratersky The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 29, 2011 (Issue # 1663) MOSCOW — A senior intelligence official was sentenced in absentia Monday to 25 years in prison for betraying Anna Chapman and the nine other sleeper agents in the United States who [...]
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June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011
New Options Ease Funding for Local Film
New Options Ease Funding for Local Film By Irina Filatova The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 29, 2011 (Issue # 1663) sunhome.ru A full-length movie with television’s Smeshariki characters will be co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov’s company. The domestic film industry will become more transparent and attractive for private investors after an independent organization is created this year to ensure that [...]
June 29, 2011
Why My Party Wasn’t Registered
Why My Party Wasn’t Registered By Vladimir Ryzhkov Published: June 29, 2011 (Issue # 1663) The Justice Ministry on Wednesday refused to register the opposition Party of People’s Freedom, thus denying my party its constitutional right to participate in the December State Duma elections. The ministry also denied the constitutional rights of millions of the [...]
June 29, 2011
With Russia’s Backing, Lagarde Elected to IMF
Finance Minister Christine Lagarde attending a government session at the French parliament in Paris on Tuesday. With Russia’s support, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was elected Tuesday as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Lagarde, who was praised by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin just hours before the vote, will start her five-year [...]
June 29, 2011
NASA sets farewell space shuttle launch for July 8
NASA senior officials voted unanimously to set space shuttle Atlantis’ launch date as July 8 after a day-long flight readiness review at the Kennedy space center in Florida on Tuesday. Atlantis’ 12-day mission to the International Space Station is the final flight of the 30-year Space Shuttle Program. “Atlantis is in great shape out at [...]
June 28, 2011
New Kiosk Model Unveiled in Downtown Moscow
The first of a new model of kiosks was installed on Tverskaya Ulitsa on the night of June 23. “The ‘Classic’ model kiosk set up on Tverskaya is a prototype, costing about 420,000 rubles [$14,820]. This price includes the frame, internal electric equipment and installation. It’s manufactured with advanced composites that do not rust,” the manufacturer’s spokesman, Yevgeny Kobzar, told reporters, according to RIA-Novosti. The Moscow architecture [...]
June 28, 2011
British Firm Moves into Art Market
Top British art consulting firm Art Market Research, or AMR, said Monday that it plans to offer its services in Russia, where growing investment interest in art and antiques presents a huge growth opportunity. London-based AMR, which counts auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s as clients for its art indexes and market analysis, said it hopes to raise 500,000 euros ($706,700) by the end of the year [...]
June 28, 2011
Ex-Spymaster Convicted of Betraying Anna Chapman
A senior intelligence official was sentenced in absentia Monday to 25 years in prison for betraying Anna Chapman and the nine other sleeper agents in the United States who flew to Moscow in a spy swap last summer. The Moscow District Military Court said Colonel Alexander Poteyev, who oversaw the sleeper agents as deputy head of the “S” department of the Foreign Intelligence Service, fled Russia shortly [...]
June 27, 2011
Vkontakte Said to Be in Talks on 2012 U.S. IPO
Vkontakte, the largest Russian social networking web site, is in early discussions with investment banks about a potential initial public offering, said people with knowledge of the talks. The company has discussed selling shares in New York as early as next year, said the people, declining to be identified as the matter is private. No final decision has been made on whether to press ahead [...]
June 27, 2011
Ryazan
1 of 5 RYAZAN — There is a widespread belief in Ryazan that Koreans owe some of their digital excellence to a local plant called Plazma. But few would remember the South Korean firm’s name when talking about Plazma’s joint venture with the Koreans — a memory dating back to the mid-1990s. Plazma’s deputy director [...]
June 26, 2011
New Options Ease Local Film Funding
The domestic film industry will become more transparent and attractive for private investors after an independent organization is created this year to insure projects from non-completion and a new investment fund is set up to provide financing for a local project, market players said Friday. The Denmark-based European Film Bond company and Sistema Mass-Media, AFK Sistema‘s mass media unit, agreed to establish a joint company to oversee the film [...]
June 25, 2011
Egypt extends custody of Israeli spy suspect for 15 days
Egyptian court extended for 15 days the custody of Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli citizen suspected of espionage on behalf of Israel, Egyptian news agency MENA said on Saturday. Grapel was arrested on June 12 in Cairo on suspicion of espionage. He is accused of “the subversive activity, aimed at damaging Egypt’s economic and political interests.” [...]
June 24, 2011
Car Fleet Leasing Struggles for Its Niche
The car rental business is hindered because many companies believe the resale value of their own cars is rising. The domestic anomaly of unusually high automobile resale values and a habit of rewarding staff with purchase rights to company cars is making it difficult for leasing firms to break into the Russian corporate car fleet market, new research shows. A survey by the Corporate [...]
June 23, 2011
Kazan Summit: Time For Breakthrough In Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process?
When the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia meet this week, flanked by U.S. and French diplomats, they’ll attempt to budge a geopolitical bolder — and not let it fall back on them. That’s the metaphor of choice for Thomas de Waal, a South Caucasus analyst at Washington’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who has [...]