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 30, 2011
In Tit-for-Tat, Russia Wants to Blacklist Foreigners
With the United States considering sanctions on Russian officials implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Foreign Ministry has turned to the State Duma with a blacklist of its own. But instead of punishing other countries for human rights abuses against their own citizens, the ministry would blacklist foreigners deemed to have violated the rights of Russian citizens. Under a bill submitted to the Duma on Tuesday, blacklisted foreigners [...]
June 30, 2011
Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, June 30, 2011
POLITICS The Yabloko opposition party proposed that all registered parties sign a memorandum on joint election monitoring. (Kommersant) Schools in Bashkortostan voiced plans to join Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s new movement, the All-Russia People’s Front; an entire street joined the association in Vladimir. All new members say they made the decision to join on their [...]
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 27, 2011
Vladivostok to replace cast iron manhole covers with fiberglass in fight against theft
Russian regional water company Primorsky Vodokanal will place 500 Chinese-produced fiberglass manhole covers in the city of Vladivostok in a bid to resolve the huge problem of ongoing thefts of cast iron covers. “People and animals frequently fall into open manholes, car wheels get stuck in them,” the company’s spokeswoman, Yulia Ignatenko said, adding that [...]
June 24, 2011
Vladivostok Gang Preyed On Vulnerable In Deadly Apartment Theft Scams
MOSCOW — Vitaly Myasin was getting ready for work when two men dressed as police officers showed up at his apartment in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. They told Myasin he was a suspect in a criminal case and that he needed to come with them to the police station for questioning. The [...]
June 23, 2011
The Legends of Russian Popular 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
Petroleum Conference Talks Business, Image
While the ninth Russian Petroleum Gas Congress opened Tuesday with political representatives from places as far apart as Ghana and the European Union hailing their energy ties with Russia, a panel was grappling with how to improve the country’s image as a global exporter of fossil fuels. “The [energy] sector is decoupling from the general development trends of the state in front of our eyes,” said Irina [...]
June 21, 2011
Contract for First Mistrals Worth Over 1Bln Euros
ST. PETERSBURG — Russia signed a contract worth more than 1 billion euros ($1.43 billion) Friday to buy two French warships — the largest military deal between a NATO country and Moscow to date that will likely worry some of Russia’s neighbors. President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the signing ceremony in St. Petersburg, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed the deal in a statement released by his office. The [...]
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 14, 2011
Former Russian Policeman Jailed For Life For Serial Killings
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Former policeman Vladimir Basmanov has been sentenced to life in prison for seven murders in Russia’s far eastern Primorye region, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. The Primorye regional court in Vladivostok ruled that five local men — two of them former policemen — killed seven people in order to illegally gain possession of [...]
June 11, 2011
Russia’s envoy to Africa urges Gaddafi to follow example of ousted Arab leaders
Russia’s special envoy to Africa, Mikhail Margelov said that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi should follow examples of other ousted Arab leaders who “lived in peace and quiet as individuals” after their voluntary resignation. “I am ready to remind to Gaddafi the examples from the newest Arab history, when the ousted states’ leaders, including former Algerian [...]
June 10, 2011
Russian Press at a Glance, Friday, June 10, 2011
POLITICS Russia and the European Union are holding a summit in Russia’s Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod to discuss the most important issues, with the vegetables ban in focus(Rossiiskaya Gazeta) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia is entitled to environmental funding as a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol(Kommersant)Hu Jintao speaks in an interview [...]
June 10, 2011
Elderly and Orphans Complain of Abuse
Five residents have fled a home for the elderly in Vladivostok, saying in a YouTube appeal that management was stealing their property and forcing them to work by threatening unjustified psychiatric treatment. The appeal came as prosecutors in the Chelyabinsk region reported gross violations at an orphanage where disabled children were punished for misdeeds with forced mental treatment, local ombudsman Margarita Pavlova said. Officials implicated [...]