Russian stock market changed colour at the start of this week, leaving the red territory it entered after Friday’s EU summit. Analysts, however, warn political uncertainty in the country could change investor sentiment in the coming days. Both the MICEX and RTS opened in the black on Monday, after they collapsed in the end of [...]
Tag: territory
December 12, 2011
December 8, 2011
Urban planner drafts perfect Moscow landscape
Moscow’s expansion will not hamper the city’s development if a multi-polar system is applied, urban planning specialist Edward Blakely told RT. The City Hall has approved extending the capital’s borders to the south-west by 2014. According to the plan, the city territory will more than double. Professor Edward Blakely, an urban policy and disaster recovery [...]
December 5, 2011
Transitory friendships: US vulnerable over Afghan supply
NATO’s recent deadly air attack on Pakistan has put the US mission in Afghanistan in danger with supplies cut-off, meaning Washington will soon have to turn to other transit states to keep its military effort going. Russia is among the alternatives and this could mean some well-timed diplomatic leverage for Moscow. After the deadly friendly-fire [...]
December 4, 2011
Over 320,000 police to maintain order during Russia’s polls
More than 320,000 police officers and 11,500 servicemen are to maintain security during the State Duma polls, which began at 20:00 p.m. GMT in Russia. As of 3:00 Moscow time [23:00 GMT Saturday] the vote is underway in four Russian time zones, which cover a vast part of Siberia and all Far East. “All polling [...]
December 1, 2011
Far East’s Primorye Territory set to double tourist incomes by 2016
The Primorye Territory in Russia’s Far East has introduced a target tourism development program aimed at doubling the region’s income from tourism, Deputy Governor Igor Uleisky said. “We should drastically rechannel tourist flows, which are currently directed outside Primorye,” Uleysky said. “This task would be feasible if we create good conditions for tourists in our [...]
November 29, 2011
Russia’s first new born found in box for unwanted babies
A child has been left in an anonymous baby box for the first time since its introduction in Russia, Head of the Krasnodar Health Department Elena Redko said on Tuesday. Administration of south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory purchased five so-called baby boxes in the beginning of November for mothers to anonymously drop off unwanted newborns. The [...]
November 20, 2011
Abkhazia must raise its game on human rights | Hugh Williamson
They like playing dominoes in Abkhazia. As dusk falls, young men unpack their pieces on the promenade by the Black Sea in Sukhumi, the picturesque capital of this breakaway territory bidding for independence from Georgia. Yet like playing ping pong in China, shuffling the dominoes in Abkhazia can also resonate with wider diplomatic meaning. In [...]
November 11, 2011
AvtoVAZ plans to produce first 100 electric cars in 2012
Russia’s largest car maker AvtoVAZ plans to produce its first 100 ElLada electric cars in 2012, AvtoVAZ Vice President for Technical Development Yevgeny Shmelyov said on Friday. “Production of 100 ElLada electric cars next year is a reality,” Shmelyov said. The price of the new eco-friendly cars, built on the basis of the Lada Kalina, [...]
November 3, 2011
Russia urges Israel to halt settlement construction
The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel on Wednesday to refrain from more housing construction in the occupied West Bank pending a final agreement on the status of the Palestinian territories. “Moscow is seriously concerned by the announcement from the Israeli leadership,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its web site. “The Russian position [...]
October 24, 2011
German satellite did not crash in Russia – official
The debris of a defunct German satellite that plummeted to Earth early on Sunday did not fall on Russian territory, spokesman for the Russian Space Forces Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. “As the experts from our Space Monitoring Center predicted, the fragments of the ROSAT satellite that did not burn up in the [...]
October 21, 2011
October 19, 2011
In Hosting Domino Championship, Abkhazia Hopes To Score Internationally
Dominoes is more than just a game in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia. It is also a welcome and relaxing diversion in a territory that still bears the scars of war and where unemployment is rampant. But this week, the pastime is taking on a whole new meaning with the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, hosting [...]
October 17, 2011
Western China-Europe transit highway…
“Western Europe-Western China” highway is of great importance not only for Kazakhstan, but in the global scale as well”, First Deputy Governor of Zhambyl oblast Karim Kokrekbayev has said in an interview to a Kazinform correspondent. As is known, within this project Kazakhstan plans to build and reconstruct about 2, 500 km of roads. The [...]
October 10, 2011
‘Russia will find cheap reply to US missile defense’
Russia will not need substantial funds to present an adequate reply to the planned US missile defense systems in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. In an interview published in the Russian weekly magazine Profil, the Foreign Minister said that though there were no movement in missile defense talks between Russia and the United [...]