Construction of Moscow-St.Petersburg highway provoked a conflict in the city of Khimki, the Moscow region. The road which is to unload the congested Leningrad highway passes through the forest which is planned to be cut down. It’s the only green spot in the district, thus, locals and ecologists are protesting.The activists had proposed an... →
The people in Russia say that if a winter is dry and cold, then the summer that will come after it will be dry and hot. Just like it is in Russia now, because what followed after a very cold winter was an excessive wave of heat this summer. The heat wave has gripped European Russia – a record spanning 130 years. Europe and the territories of... →
The church schism in Ukraine is abating. Now the main aim is to consolidate the Orthodox faith in the country. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s visit to the Ukrainian dioceses had exactly this goal in mind. Patriarch Kirill spent 9 days in Ukraine, visiting Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev. Mass protests against the Russian Orthodox... →
A third of all the atomic energy power plants in the world operate on the Russian light-water nuclear reactors. The huge success of Russia on the global market of nuclear reactors is due to the priority the country gives to security and reliability, which has led to its nuclear reactor being in high demand in the world. Foreign partners have... →
A hijacking attempt was prevented at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said, citing a plane en route from North Caucasus to Moscow, where an incident took place earlier in the day.One of the passengers on board suddenly scrambled to hijack the plane, making unspecified demands. Upon touching down at the Domodedovo airport, the hijacker was... →
Speaking at a session of the Council for National Projects in Moscow on Thursday, President Dmitry Medvedev voiced hope that a state budget for 2011-2013 will contribute to the development of national projects in the next couple of years. He pointed out that introducing innovations into national projects is an uphill task, which should be resolved... →
The two Russian strategic bombers have completed a record 40-hour patrol flight, which saw them covering 30,000 kilometers over the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific Oceans on Thursday, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. He added that the Tu-95 bombers were shadowed by several NATO fighters during separate stages of the flight. →
Criminal cases on 12 charges have been opened in connection with Russia’s poor performance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Audit Chamber chief Sergei Stepashin gave no further details when he broke the news to reporters on Thursday, but said that most issues concerned the athletes’ training system, the so-called uniform calendar... →
Russia is not going to supply its S-300 long range surface-to-air missile systems to Azerbaijan, the Rosoboroneksport arms maker stated on Thursday.The hoax was published in one of Russian newspapers. →
In a commentary on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry lashed out at the 2010 State Department report on arms-control compliance, which Moscow complained clouds the ongoing “reset” of relations between Russia and the United States.The report, among other things, points the finger at Russia, which allegedly violates a raft of... →
A US Military Boeing C-17 cargo plane crashed with four people on board, on the outskirts of Anchorage at Elmendorf Airforce Base in Alaska on Wednesday, officials said, adding that all four on board died.They also said that the plane belonged to the 3rd Wing of the Elmendorf Airforce base and was training for an air show slated for later this... →
Hundreds of striking truck drivers clashed with riot police in front of the Greek transport ministry in Athens on Thursday after the government issued an emergency order to force them back to work. The clashes occurred after the drivers gathered to protest outside the transport ministry, with riot police firing tear gas to disperse the angry... →
Iran will suspend a 20-percent uranium enrichment if it gets fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor.This comes from Iranian Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Akbar Salehi. →
Russia believes Kosovo remains part of Serbia despite the UN Court decision which still cannot justify the region's state-building, Russia's Ambassador to Europe's OSCE security organization Anvar Azimov stated on Thursday.He noted that the Court hadn't approved Kosovo's break away from Serbia. In February 2008, the Kosovo Albanians... →
