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According to the poll’s results, 62% of the respondents don’t trust the Prime Minister, 32% - the President, 24% - NATO and 17% - the Church.
The President’s rating has suffered most of all.
The previous poll, which was held in June, showed that 39% of the respondents trusted the ruling Party of Reforms, which is headed by the country’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. The current figure is 22%.
Voice of Russia, IF
Britain is investigating a possible Nigerian link to attackers suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London while shouting Islamic slogans, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Ibragim Todashev, shot dead early Wednesday by the FBI in Florida, was "directly involved" in a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, a law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.
United States Attorney General Eric Holder has told Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.
The U.S. Attorney General has thanked Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for aid in the Boston bombings case.
The U.S. is for boosting ties with Russia, said Barack Obama at a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that he would dispute a decision to disqualify his close ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie from a vote to elect his successor. The disqualification will disappoint those in Iran who had been hoping for a more open contest.
An Army sergeant at the U.S. Military Academy has been accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers at West Point, a defense official said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of sex-related incidents that has rocked the armed forces.
An interview with Slobodan Eric, editor-in-chief of the Serbian «Geopolitics» magazine.
Syrian rebels killed at least 40 soldiers and other fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad as they captured a military base in the northwestern province of Idlib Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
President Vladimir Putin believes Russia’s spectrum of ethnic groups, cultures and faiths is a great boon for the country’s development.
Anti-immigration sentiment is nothing new in the West, and now it is also on the rise in Russia, as the country has to make up for its demographic shortfalls by importing guest labour from former Soviet Central Asia. Polls suggest anti-immigrant rallies and even riots may be around the corner. In the meantime, a report issued by the agency Interfax raises the specter of an even more sinister threat.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes that the authorities should care more about the welfare of scientists, teachers and students. This would raise the prestige of the professions of a scientist and a teacher, Mr. Putin says.
The Ukrainian government on Wednesday approved a memorandum applying for observer status in the Customs Union, a Moscow-based trade bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said.
This year is likely to bring a draft agreement, first proposed in 2008, for the EU countries to share information about interest accrued on deposits held in banks.
EU leaders agreed Wednesday that the automatic sharing of individuals' bank account data, a key measure to prevent tax evasion, should come into effect by the end of the year, European President Herman Van Rompuy said.
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)
A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash that involved four buses in northern Indiana. About 50 students sustained non-serious injuries, and one driver was seriously injured.
The Chicago Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs in a move that has sparked protests and lawsuits.
A new immigration law in the US could provide 11 million now illegal immigrants with citizenship. A Senate panel has approved the respective bill, making way for a full Senate vote next month. The legislation emerged with its core provisions largely intact, including new visa programs for high-tech and low-skilled workers and new investments in strengthening border control.
Obama: U.S. for boosting ties with Russia
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