Saturday 28th January, 2012
Syrian Violence Escalates as Diplomatic Efforts Falter
Violence in Syria continued Friday, bringing to more than 50 the number of people killed there over the past two days, as a resolution to curb the bloodshed appeared to be stalled in the United ...
Russia launches cosmonaut recruitment drive
Russia, which sent into space the first artificial satellite, the first man and the first woman, has now launched a competition to select new cosmonauts. State space agency Roscosmos Friday said ...
Vlamidir Putin 'not concerned' by calls for resignation
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has dismissed concerns over the protests urging him to step down from the post. "Protests? What protests?," I am not concerned. I think about the people - the ...
Russia postpones rocket launch
St Petersburg News.NetThe launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunication satellite onboard scheduled for Friday has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, Russian space agency ...
'Ready' Azarenka wants maiden Grand Slam title 'really bad'
St Petersburg News.NetBelarusian tennis ace Victoria Azarenka has said she is ready to perform to the best of her potential in the Australian Open final clash with Russian opponent Maria Sharapova. Both Azarenka and ...
Robotic Russian supply ship docks at space station
MSNBCThis still from a NASA broadcast shows the Russian Progress 46 spacecraft as it prepared to dock at the International Space Station on Jan. 27, ...
Ukraine insists on creating gas pipeline consortium with Russia, EU
Itar TassKIEV, January 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukraine has at its disposal the necessary resources to carry out the upgrade of the gas pipeline system on its own, but it would prefer this to be done by an ...
Russian billionaire leads a London bookshop revolution
The IndependentIt is a literary innovation that will delight London's influx of Russians - and intrigue the intelligence services. Waterstones will open a Russian-language "bookshop" within its ...
Russia says it won’t back UN calls for Assad to go
Turkish Daily NewsRussia says it won't support any decision of UN Security Council demanding Syrian President al- Assad to step down, while the country was hit by blasts Jan 27. Dozens of people were killed by ...
Marriott to open three hotels in Sochi, Russia.
4HoteliersCompany Announces it Will Open New JW Marriott, Marriott Hotels & Resorts and Courtyard by Marriott Hotels in Sochi, Russia, Site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.Marriott International ...
Russia rejects new draft resolution on Syria
RTAnkhar Kochneva, writer and sole foreign journalist permanently living in Syria, tells RT what is really up in the country, who funds the opposition, how international media fake images of unrest ...
Russia Takes Silver, Bronze in Ice Dance at Euros
RIA NovostiTeam Russia won two more medals – silver and bronze - at the European Figure Skating Championship in Britain’s Sheffield on Friday night. Russia’s Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri ...
Putin to run for Russian president in 2012
RIA NovostiRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged on Friday his challengers in the presidential race to drop nationalist slogans, warning of the possibly "fatal" consequences of fuelling Russian ...
Russia stands fast in support of Syrian regime
The IndependentRussia's support for the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad was increasingly at odds with international opinion ahead of a UN Security Council meeting last night to discuss ways to loosen the ...
Russia Sides Firmly With Assad Government in Syria
International Herald TribuneMOSCOW - There are not many world capitals today where President Bashar al-Assad of Syria can count on unstinting support. But diplomats who passed through Moscow this week hoping to secure Russia's ...
Russian citizens fell victims to illegal human organ trafficking in Kosovo, and there is big politics involved in the story. The case is directly connected with accusations of illegal organ trafficking that have been set forth against Prime Minister of Al
PravdaIt goes about the events which took place in August 2008. The story took place at Medicus clinic, in Kosovo's administrative center - Pristina. Two Russian citizens, who decided to become ...
Russian investigators probe election violations
WHP CBS 21The Russian flag flies at the Opening Ceremony Of The Russian Pavilion held at the Pavilion 142 in the International Village during the 62nd International Cannes Film Festival. (Francois Durand, ...
Russia "disappointed" with UN Syria draft: envoys
West AustralianUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on Friday that he was "deeply disappointed" with a European-Arab ...
Georgia Says Wine Exports Rise Despite Russian Import
Spero NewsAccording to Georgia’s state statistics agency, the country’s wine exports jumped nearly 40 percent in value last year to more than $54 million. That’s below the figures of ...
What's Behind Russia's Attachment To Syria?
NPRJanuary 27, 2012 Russia has vowed to veto any United Nations resolution authorizing the use of force against Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The Russians fear "colored revolutions" and ...
Compensations to Costa Concordia Russian tourists to be settled individually – lawyer
Itar TassROME, January 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Compensations to many Russian passengers of the sunken cruise liner Costa Concordia will be settled individually, lawyer Tatiana della Marra who represents the ...
Arctic Ice Melt Lifts Hopes for Russian Maritime Trade
Insurance JournalWhen severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through ...
Russia - Independent newspaper suspends publication in response to pressure
IFEXMoi Gorod-Kostroma, Newspaper (GDF/IFEX) - 23 January 2012 - Albert Stepantsev, general director of the newspaper "Moi Gorod-Kostroma" (MGK), has complained to the Glasnost Defence ...
Love over gold: Lithuania blocks Russian woman’s Olympic dream
RTCyprus has become the training venue of choice for Russia's Olympic squad as the modern pentathlon team, which has won medals at every Games since 1964, hope to further their incredible record ...
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