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The decision to extend the walkout, launched on Thursday came just as medics called a similar strike in Athens protesting against salary and other cuts being effected as part of the government’s austerity plan.
Transport workers joined in the action on Friday and the central union of the country’s private sector workers will hold a general strike on February 20.
Voice of Russia, RIA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry will undertake the primary responsibility for settlement in Syria, said Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following a G8 summit on Lough Erne, reported Voice of Russia correspondent.
The attacks and the persecution of whistleblowers and truth seekers in the United States is part of a plague that is only going to get worse before it gets better. Despite knowing that he is under surveillance Michael Ratner spoke candidly to the Voice of Russia about Julian Assange, Jeremy Hammond, Guantanamo and the hunger strike and the entire illegality of the U.S. hyper-security state.
Iceland has received an informal approach from an intermediary who says Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, wants to seek asylum there.
According to President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a press conference after the current G8 summit, Russia does not intend to go to a great deal of expense, so the meeting will take place three months after the Olympics, making use of the available infrastructure, and thus avoiding extensive financial costs.
US President Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Tuesday for his first visit to the German capital as president, hours after departing from the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
The forthcoming speech by Barack Obama is being compared to the fondly remembered orations by presidents Kennedy and Reagan and is expected to be a great event in politics as well as in history. On the other hand, the Berlin Wall and Cold War are way behind us. Those who might declare proudly “Ich bin ein Berliner” are now rather more concerned about how they may move around the town when the presidential cavalcade imposes strict security measures throughout their home city. The chief of the section for the foreign policy in Süddeutsche Zeitung Stefan shared his insight with Voice of Russia.
Google Inc said on Tuesday it has asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow the Internet company to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), separately from criminal requests.
Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal scandal.
Turkish police are conducting mass arrests of participants of anti-government protest rallies.
Eleven people have been injured in explosions of projectiles at a range in Chapayevsk, the Samara region. Police are evacuating the people from communities located in the depot's vicinity. (VIDEO)
A well-known Russian journalist, photographer and a member of the Russian Geographical Society Vlad Minin started from Moscow his unique expedition. Vlad's giant Jeep will go through the cities and villages of Transcaucasia and Central Asia with films, books and paintings that can tell about what Russia really is.
During the trip, Vlad Minin would speak there with stories about the great Russians, the accomplishments of Russian culture, its tangible and intangible treasures.
The start of journey was given at the Sofia Embankment of Moscow. The participants of the Voice of Russia's project "Window to Russia" (media sponsor) came to say goodbye to the traveler and to wish him the easy way.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the country’s G8 delegation remained unperturbed by the reports of intelligence tapping phone communications.
At the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the United States and the European Union have launched talks on Monday to what could become the biggest bilateral trade deal in history. British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was ‘a once-in-a-generation prize’, which they were determined to seize. US President Barack Obama announced that talks on a trans-Atlantic trade and investment deal would begin in Washington next month. While the EU leaders admit the negotiations will be difficult, they believe the agreement could be reached within two years. For more on the news we are joined by Patrick Young, Leading Expert on Financial Markets and the Founder and Chairman of Derivatives Vision, a securities exchange advisory and media company.
Group of Eight leaders said on Monday that world economic prospects remained weak even though downside risks have lessened due partly to policy action taken in the United States, the euro zone and Japan.
Experts, who’ve been invited to attend the 17th annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, SPIEF, believe that this kind of forum has a decisive influence on the development of global economy, as well as the global political processes.
The Fitch rating agency is concerned about the unregulated part of the Chinese banking sector. The so-called “shadow banks” pose systemic risks for the country’s economy.
The Iranian economy is experiencing severe stress caused by the international sanctions against Tehran. An unofficial estimate of the Iranian inflation rate is almost three times the official annual inflation figure.
The foreign exchange market is now in the crosshairs of the global financial regulators in the aftermath of the rate-rigging scandals in currency rates and interest rates markets.
Russia’s State Duma on Tuesday approved in the second reading a bill encouraging resettlement to the Russian Federation of compatriots living abroad.
Airport officials intiated a partial evacuation of the McNamara Terminal Tuesday morning after a K-9 united alerted on a particular item in the cargo area of the airport.
Vladimir Putin is ready to compensate the moral suffering of American businessman Robert Kraft caused by the loss of the diamond ring, which he presented to the Russian leader in 2005. This came in a statement by press-Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov in response to the scandal associated with the name of the Russian President and boosted by the media. Peskov has also noted that Kraft’s behavior was the subject of a detailed conversation with a psychoanalyst.
Google asks US surveillance court permission to publish request data
