Latest St Petersburg (Russia) News
RSS-
Vladimir Putin Russia has no evidence Syrian govt used chemical weapons
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has no evidence the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Some G8 countries, too, believe such weapons were not used, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
-
START Russia-U.S. nuclear talks
US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation ...
-
US Lawmakers Put Brakes on Russia START Nuclear Pact
WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – US lawmakers have imposed new conditions the administration of President Barack Obama would need to meet before the United States can fulfill its obligations under the 2010 START nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia, recently-approved legislation shows. The restrictions stipulate that no funds may be spent to decommission US nuclear weapons ...
More St Petersburg (Russia) News
RSS-
Russia US to Spearhead Syria Peace Plan – Putin
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following ...
-
Iran ready to stop 20 per cent uranium enrichment Russian minister says
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks to a meeting with Latin American Foreign Ministers in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Russia's foreign minister has sharply criticized a draft resolution on Syria to be considered by the United Nations' top human rights body. (AP Photo/Misha ...
-
G8 communique shows Russian shift
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) and U.S. President Barack Obama take part in a group photo for the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. REUTERS/Kevin ...
-
Siluanov Seeks Weaker Ruble to Promote Growth
Anton Siluanov on Tuesday rejected proposals to lay responsibility for growth on the Central Bank and offered his way out of the government's predicament - devalue the ruble. Siluanov's ministry will use oil revenue destined for the Reserve Fund to buy currency on the market and weaken the ruble by 1 to 2 rubles ($0.03 to $0.06), he told Bloomberg. Insisting that strictly ...
-
G7 plus one Isolated Russia holds line on Syria.
The G8 summit ended today with Russia far from agreement with the West over how to resolve the Syrian civil war. Russian experts say the rift is probably ...
-
Russias Su-35S shows art of aerobatics at Le Bourget
Russian multi-purpose fighter jet Su-35S that has never been presented abroad, successfully performed its first demonstration flight at the air show in Le Bourget, near ...
-
Russian multi-purpose fighter jet Su-35S that has never been presented abroad successfully performed its first demonstration flight at the air show in Le Bourget near Paris. Before the audience of the prestigious airshow the 4 + + generation fighter c
The plane, which attracts a lot of attention of potential buyers, bears a resemblance to its predecessor, the Su-27, but the new aircraft has been thoroughly modernized. Mikhail Pogosyan, the President of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said that the complex avionics of the Su-35S was capable of detecting targets with the help of a radar at a distance of more than 300 km. A highly powerful ...
-
Russian Government Announces Closure of Cellulose Plant in Baikal
Moscow, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, backed the decision of Irkutsk region''s management of closing permanently the Baikal Cellulose Plant, which was fiercely criticized by ecological organizations that accuse it of damaging the environment. During a meeting with the regional management about the ecological situation of Baikal Lake's ...
-
IMF cuts Russia 2013 growth forecast
The IMF on Tuesday cut its forecast for economic growth in Russia in 2013 to 2.5 percent from its previous projection of 3.4 percent due to weak investment and external demand."Russia's growth has slowed while inflation remains high," the IMF said in a statement after a staff visit to Russia this ...
-
Seeking a Syria consensus despite U.S.-Russia divide
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, where they discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral ...
-
Russia signs first contract at Paris Air Show
Planes The Russian delegation has landed its first deal at the Paris air show, selling all-weather K-52 Alligator helicopter gunships to Iraqi officials. Airplanes of all shapes, sizes, and nationalities have taken to the Parisian sky this week at 50th Le Bourget air show, and Russia has concluded its first sales on day two of the bi-annual exhibition. The Iraqi order is part of a $4 ...
-
Russias Youth Population ‘In Steady Decline’ - Official
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has seen both the number of young people in the country and their share in the total population decline steadily in recent years, an Education Ministry official said on Tuesday. "According to the Federal State Statistics Service, in 2012 there were 31.6 million people in the 15-29 age group – making up 22 percent of the country’s total ...
-
IMF Urges ‘Ambitious’ Economic Reforms in Russia
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia needs to carry out "ambitious" economic policy reforms to realize the economy’s midterm potential and reduce its vulnerabilities to a slump in oil prices or acceleration of capital outflows, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. "The pre-crisis growth model, based on increasing oil prices and rising use of spare capacity, ...
-
Nigeria drops charges against some Russian arms suspects
Russian sailors suspected of trafficking arms, their lawyer said, but another seven will face trial. The 15 Russian sailors were charged with illegally bringing weapons ...
-
Russias Putin Says Did Not Feel Isolated at G8
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking after two days of tense G8 talks on Syria, said on Tuesday he did not feel isolated at the summit despite clashing with leaders on how to resolve Syria's civil ...
-
Rostec Signs Deal for Small Aircraft Localization
Rostec said in a statement Tuesday that it signed a framework agreement during the Le Bourget Paris Air Show with Austrian Diamond Aircraft Industries to manufacture light aircraft in Russia. The Austrian producer signed a two-year contract with Rostec, worth 2.5 billion rubles ($77.9 million), to buy 114 Da40 Tundra planes, localizing their production and larger aircraft in the future. Rostec ...
-
Hiring Professionals Challenged By Generation Gap
The current wave of young job candidates entering the labor market are presenting unique challenges to hiring managers, experts said at a forum dedicated to human resources on Tuesday. Freedom loving, soul searching and socially conscious are some of the hallmarks of young professionals from Generation Y, an age group born in the period from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s. And they are the ...
-
Russia Chance for progress on Iran nuclear issue must be seized
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has taken constructive steps toward compromise in the decade-old standoff over its nuclear program and world powers should reciprocate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on ...
-
G8 communique represents real shift by Russia says Canada PM
Stephen Harper said on Tuesday. "We have a very different outcome and much better outcome than I thought we were going to have," Harper told reporters. Before the summit, Harper had said he feared Putin's support for Syria would make a G8 agreement difficult. "I think this was a very significant move on the part of Mr Putin and the Russians," he said. (Reporting by ...
-
Russias parliament votes to ban adoption by same-sex couples
MOSCOW - Russia is on its way to formally prohibiting all adoption by same-sex couples and also banning the adoption of Russian children by single people or unmarried couples from countries that allow same-sex marriage. The lower house of Russia's parliament voted unanimously for the ban on Tuesday. The bill still needs to be confirmed in a procedural third reading on Friday, then passed ...
-
Friends School graduate earns free trip to Russia
Alex Brooks started studying Russian because he needed a language class and didn't want to take French. Spanish class was filled, so the Friends School student settled for Russian. "I was willing to take a risk with a new alphabet," said Brooks, a science fiction fan who was raised in Bangladesh. Now, Brooks, who graduated from Friends on June 10, is reaping rewards from ...
-
Russia and USA reach agreement on nuclear problem
Russia and the United States have reached an agreement on the nuclear problem. After lengthy negotiations, the two leaders agreed to cut the military ...
St Petersburg Focus
-
New business centre in St Petersburg remains contraversial
Okhta Centre has become one of the most contentious development projects in all of Russia. It is a project that offers St Petersburg two options that can’t be matched, either to embrace the modern world and allow a world-class business centre to be built, or maintain the city’s historic skyline, architecture and reputation as a major tourist destination with huge historical significance.
Before 2007, Okhta Centre was called Gazprom City and was promoted as such in Russian and St Petersburg news media, but from the start the project was a contentious issue, due primarily to the fact that the development calls for a massive tower to be built in its centre, a tower that will be the tallest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Read more
News from around our Network
