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President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on presenting 2011 National Awards to the best representatives of Russian science and the arts.
The list of recipients features the prominent geologist Felix Mitrofanov for the discovery of platinum and palladium deposits on the Kola Peninsula, medical researchers Rem Petrov and Rakhim Khaitov for their study of the human immune system, and the world famous violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov.
TASS
Syria's opposition and government are preparing to take part in an internationally-sponsored peace conference, the United Nations-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange remains in Limbo in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and soon will be marking one year since he was forced to seek refuge there. Although he has never been charged with a crime the U.K. authorities have already spent almost $5 million dollars surrounding the embassy. Amidst austerity measures and economic woes being felt by citizens of the U.K. this expenditure, to persecute a whistleblower seems outrageous and even ludicrous. The U.K. has proven they will do whatever the U.S. wants, and hence Mr. Assange is in great danger indeed.
The man who shot himself dead Tuesday at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral turned out to be a well-known far-right activist Dominique Venner. Shortly before his death Venner had written a blog post denouncing an "infamous law" legalising gay marriage in France.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who has arrived on a visit to the United States, will be delivering to President Barack Obama a message from Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
What is the purpose of NATO’s military build-up in Eastern Europe? What can be done to reduce threats to strategic stability created by American missile defence plans? What is the current role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe? Some 300 Russian, EU and NATO experts, diplomats and generals will be discussing these and other issues at Moscow’s second annual international security conference to be hosted by the Russian Defence Ministry on Thursday and Friday.
Russia and the USA’s initiative for the convocation of the Geneva-2 conference - the second conference on Syria settlement - is not to everybody’s liking, a Russian Oriental studies expert and a political analyst, Leonid Isayev, said.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange remains in Limbo in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and soon will be marking one year since he was forced to seek refuge there. Although he has never been charged with a crime the U.K. authorities have already spent almost $5 million dollars surrounding the embassy. Amidst austerity measures and economic woes being felt by citizens of the U.K. this expenditure, to persecute a whistleblower seems outrageous and even ludicrous. The U.K. has proven they will do whatever the U.S. wants, and hence Mr. Assange is in great danger indeed.
The number of victims of a spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq on Tuesday reached 29 people, with more than 100 injured, local authorities said.
The scandal surrounding the surveillance of the Associated Press reporters’ phone calls by the US Department of Justice has now received an unexpected sequel. On Monday, it became known that the US authorities had also wiretapped the phone calls of a FOX TV reporter. Considering that this is mostly a pro-Republican channel, the Obama’s opponents have immediately accused him of putting pressure on the mass media.
Russia’s Regional Development Ministry has published the list of the most attractive Russian cities. The survey covered 164 cities and the top-lost contained 50 cities.
The engineers of the Russianspace corporation RKK Energia have designed a machine that produces water out of air.
The 18th International festival "Musical Olympus" has opened in St. Petersburg.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
The US authorities are going to enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran as part of extra unilateral sanctions against the country from July 1. The sanctions suggest a ban on selling gold and other precious metals to private and state-run Iranian companies, as well as to individuals holding Iranian citizenship.
The former head of the Internal Revenue Service told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday he was "dismayed" to learn that the tax agency had subjected conservative groups to extra scrutiny under his watch.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Foster parents of Alexey, Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov in the United States have been stripped of their parental rights.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) confirms that the so-called military emir of the Caucasian Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) Djamaleil Mutaliyev, the deputy head of Doku Umarov, was eliminated in Ingushetia in the North Caucasus.
Britain's House of Commons has voted to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales. British MPs approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) bill by 366 votes to 161.
Adoptive parents from US abandon Russian children
