RT News: Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of […]
RT: Getting a drink in Central Moscow on New Year’s eve is going to be impossible. Authorities are to ban the sale of alcohol in the city centre on New Year’s Eve night. All shops is central Moscow will stop selling all alcoholic drinks at 7pm local time on December […]
Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it the “birth pangs” of the Greater Middle East remixed as serial regime changes? Is […]
Russia has stepped up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths from the air strike campaign which led to the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammer Gaddafi. The campaign by […]
Asia Times Online: Neeta Lal: Close on the heels of India’s liberal intellectual tradition receiving a jolt with the removal of an essay – ”Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translations” – by the late scholar A K Ramanujan from Delhi University’s BA history (honors) syllabus, comes […]
More than 50 people were feared dead on Sunday after a mobile oil-drilling platform capsized and sunk during stormy weather in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia’s east coast. The […]
MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russia described the EU decision to impose sanctions against the Syrian newspaper al-Watan and Cham Press news website as “irrational” and that it came within the framework […]
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Source / Courtesy: January 2011, Alislam-eGazette Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek […]
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday’s Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run.”The country’s leaders must admit there were numerous falsifications and rigging and the results do not reflect the people’s will,” he said.Protesters were planning new rallies for Saturday as arrests […]
Pravda Ru. o5.12.2011. Russia’s Central Election Commission has processed 92 percent of votes as of Monday morning, Dec. 5. United Russia, the ruling party, has gained 49.67 percent of votes, Nikolai Konkin, the secretary of the commission said. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation gained 19.13%, Just Russia – […]
Russia’s ‘squeezed middle’ is disenchanted with Mr Putin, as his election humiliation shows – even his allies are getting nervous about his plans. As Vladimir Putin nurses a rare electoral […]
Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party appears to have lost the trust of millions of Russians after early results showed it had won less than fifty per cent of the […]
Pravda Ru. 30.11.2011 Russian warships were sent to the military base in Syria. The fleet is led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. Included also are a patrol vessel and other vessels. The Russian government announced Tuesday that from December, a flotilla of warships will be sent to the naval […]
Irina Shlionskaya. Pravda.Ru 02.12.2011. In September 1960, a 27-year-old US doctor Ron Wyatt, an amateur archeologist, read an article in Life Magazine about the phenomenon. The search for Noah’s Ark became the primary objective in his life. In 1977, Wyatt started the mission to Turkey with his two sons. Having […]
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, reached back to the rhetoric of the Cold War on Sunday to angrily accuse the West of trying to meddle in his country’s forthcoming elections. Speaking ahead of a parliamentary vote this weekend that his party is expected to win, the country’s de facto […]
Contact has finally been made with Russia’s troubled Mars mission, says the European Space Agency (Esa). The agency reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal […]
Source: TOI MOSCOW: A Russian company is going to produce and sell an alcoholic drink in Russia named after Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, a media report said Wednesday. The company, a subsidiary of Rusimport, Russia’s largest producer and importer of liqueurs and vodka, has filed an application for the […]
Source / Courtesy: NY Times PARIS — Russia on Thursday cleared the last major obstacle in its 18-year effort to join the World Trade Organization in what the head of the institution called a milestone for global trade. “It’s a victory for Russia, a victory for W.T.O. members, and a […]
Maksim Khrustalev. Pravda.Ru. 09.11.2011 The recipes from the IMF took Russia to the default in 1998, which automatically ended the “fruitful cooperation” with the fund. Strange as it may seem, Russia began to recover after that. The IMF could not be happy with that, of course. The Fund became concerned with […]
Companies from Russia and China are most likely to pay bribes when doing business abroad, a survey suggests. The two scored worst out of 28 countries in a poll of 3,000 business executives conducted by anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI). Read More…