WORLD * South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva asked her supporters to stop demonstrations on the main square of the republic’s capital, Tskhinvali, under a deal reached with the incumbent authorities * Residents of Moldova’s breakaway Transdnestr region voted to elect their leader for the next five years RUSSIA * President Dmitry Medvedev disagreed with [...]
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December 12, 2011
December 9, 2011
Main news of December 8
RUSSIA Election protests: * Protests against alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party continued for a third night on Wednesday, with arrests in both Moscow and St. Petersburg, police said *Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said; - police would crack down on illegal demonstrations – accused the U.S. [...]
December 3, 2011
Main news of December 2
WORLD * Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation and the Baltiisky Zavod shipyard signed a 2.5 billion ruble ($80 million) contract on Friday to build hulls for the third and fourth French Mistral-class warships for the Russian Navy * Russian specialists have started construction works on the Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant in Vietnam, a spokesman for [...]
November 27, 2011
Main news of November 26
WORLD * Pakistani authorities gave the United States 15 days to leave the Shamsi airbase, and closed NATO supply lines into Afghanistan in response to a deadly NATO air strike, the DawnNews TV channel reported * NASA launched a unique Mars rover, Curiosity, to search for traces of life on the Red Planet * Iran [...]
November 25, 2011
Main news of November 25
WORLD *Britain will stop sharing military information with Russia over Moscow’s decision to freeze compliance with the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a government minister said *Egypt’s ruling military council said in a statement it appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri the country’s new prime minister and charged him with forming a cabinet *The Patriarch [...]
November 25, 2011
November 24, 2011
Main News of November 23
WORLD The White House insisted that Washington would not alter its plans for a European missile defense project, despite increasingly tough rhetoric from Moscow Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) under which he would hand over power to his vice president within 30 days in exchange [...]
November 21, 2011
November 20, 2011
Main News of November 18
WORLD International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts may soon accept Tehran’s invitation to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s Cabinet won a second confidence vote in parliament to secure its right to tackle the country’s deepening financial crisis Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili described a European [...]
November 17, 2011
Main news of November 16
WORLD *Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his newly formed government’s ministers were sworn in at the presidential palace on Wednesday, ending Silvio Berlusconi’s 17-year-long political hegemony *The new Greek coalition government led by Lucas Papademos won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday *A storm in the White Sea was determined the cause of [...]
November 13, 2011
Main news of November 12
WORLD *The European union (EU) will continue to support post-Gaddafi Libya, the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said as she paid an official visit to Tripoli to open the EU diplomatic mission *The Italian parliament on Saturday approved the economy stabilization law which clears the way for the formation of the temporary government and [...]
October 27, 2011
Main news of October 26
WORLD * Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director and one-time board member of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, surrendered to the FBI Wednesday on criminal charges of leaking confidential information, The Wall Street Journal reported * Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the way world media covered the death of ousted Libyan leader Muammar [...]
October 21, 2011
Main News of October 21
WORLD * NATO actions preceding the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should be scrutinized for their compliance with international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. * A U.S. missile cruiser arrived on Friday in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol on an official visit which local authorities tried to kept secret to [...]
October 20, 2011
Main news of October 20
WORLD *Libyans celebrated the death of Muammar Gaddafi with peals of gunfire on Thursday as news broke of the dictator’s death during an attack on his hometown of Sirte *The eastern part of the Thai capital and neighboring province Nonthaburi in the west were completely flooded in the early hours of October 20, rising [...]