Protesters rallying against North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, pictured with a firing target, in Seoul on Wednesday. The leaders of North Korea and Russia appeared on Wednesday to have canceled plans for a summit in the Far East when the Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev had no meetings scheduled with Kim Jong Il. Authorities in Vladivostok, 130 kilometers from the North Korean border, had [...]
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June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
Norilsk Invests to Double Arctic Shipments
Norilsk will increase deliveries of metal and coal through the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk, pictured. Norilsk Nickel plans to spend $370 million to double its shipments across the Arctic Ocean by 2016 as global warming allows the route to rival the journey through the Suez Canal. Norilsk will raise deliveries of metal and coal through the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk, near Finland, to China and South Korea, [...]
June 29, 2011
Main news of June 28
WORLD * The Fatah and Hamas movements reached an agreement on the candidacy of the reconciliation government’s prime minister, Egyptian Al Ahram daily reported * Georgia sent a note expressing readiness for dialog to Russia on Tuesday via mediator Switzerland, in accordance with the recommendation of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a [...]
June 28, 2011
Hitherto we shall be the Kingdom of Sakartvelo!
This would be something I most likely would have wanted to hear as it would be more than logical. But, alas, it’s not to happen! One of Russia’s southern neighbors wants to “rename” itself so that the name of the country sounds the same in all languages: Georgia… Georgia in English is obviously Georgia; however, [...]
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
Israel warns journalists against joining second Gaza flotilla
Israel on Sunday threatened to ban foreign journalists from the country for 10 years if they travel with an aid flotilla due to sail to the Gaza Strip next week. The 11 ships will try to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, which was tightened in 2007 after the Islamist movement Hamas took over the [...]
June 25, 2011
The Sound of Music
RussiaProfile.Org, an online publication providing in-depth analysis of business, politics, current affairs and culture in Russia, has published a new Special Report on the performing arts in Russia: Bodies in Motion. Twelve articles by both Russian and foreign contributors examine the current trends in theater, music and adjacent forms of art both as creative activities [...]
June 22, 2011
Ban Ki-moon pledges to be ‘bridge-builder’ in new term
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, appointed on Tuesday for a second five-year term, pledged to work as a “harmonizer and bridge-builder” among all stakeholders to uphold the UN Charter and lead the international organization. “To lead, we must deliver results. Mere statistics will not do,” Ban said as quoted on the UN website, adding that [...]
June 21, 2011
UN confirms Ban Ki-moon for second five-year term
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday confirmed Ban Ki-moon for a second five-year term as Secretary General. Last week, the UN Security Council passed by a majority vote a resolution recommending Ban for a new term to head the United Nations. Members of 192 nations of the UN General Assembly approved Ban Ki-moon for his [...]
June 21, 2011
Hotels Scrambling to Find Room for Conferences
Floors, walls and even ceilings gleaming in this computer image of the Baltschug’s upgraded lobby. Competition for conference bookings is on the rise. When a hotel that hosts 600 business conferences a year has to turn down potential customers for lack of space, it’s clear that Moscow’s market for conference venues has room to grow. And when that same major hotel is [...]
June 20, 2011
China-Russia Treaty: a powerful political tool
The China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. This indicates qualitative improvement in Russian-Chinese relations, primarily in political cooperation. The treaty opens up broader cooperation prospects in North-East Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia and other regions where the two countries have interests big or small. At the same time, [...]
June 18, 2011
S. Korea military fires at passenger jet by mistake
South Korean troops fired at a civilian airplane near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist country’s military planes, but no damage occurred, Yonhap said on Saturday. Two Marine Corps soldiers guarding the waters off the South’s western city of Incheon, fired their K-2 rifles for about [...]
June 18, 2011
Relationships between two Koreas
South Korean troops fired at a civilian airplane near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist country’s military planes, but no damage occurred, Yonhap said on Saturday.
June 14, 2011
China, Russia ties on sound base
Sino-Russian relations are usually wrapped in high-sounding rhetoric, but they are essentially very pragmatic. For China, Russia is a geopolitical “safe rear” and, in economic terms, a major resource base. For Russia, China is a huge market just across the border and a valuable geopolitical partner. The fundamentals of the relationship are solid and not [...]