Dmitry Borisov
9 декабря 2010 17:19
Participants in the Cancun Forum on climate change have failed to reach an agreement on how to deal with a pressing problem, which requires concerted efforts. Dmitry Borisov examines the issue in more detail. Drought, floods and hurricanes now occur more frequently in the world because of global warming.
13 сентября 2010 15:08
Countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Forum are holding the 7th “Peace Mission” joint military exercises on the territory of Kazakhstan. According to the organizers, the games focus on anti-terror tactics and pose no threat to other countries. About 5 thousand military personnel from Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are participating in the drill.
12 сентября 2010 13:17
Germany has marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Unity Treaty, which led to the eventual reunification of a divided Germany. Two decades on, the country's east and west still have problems coming together.
13 июня 2010 10:54
A Russian emergencies ministry plane carrying six Kyrgyz citizens, seriously injured during riots in the south of the country, landed in Moscow earlier in the day. The injured, among them a 5-year-old girl and a police officer, will be treated in the best Moscow hospitals, a ministry spokesman said.
5 июня 2010 20:15
Russia and Germany have agreed to do more to contribute to European security. The topic was high on the agenda of Saturday’s talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a government guesthouse, Meseberg Palace, outside Berlin.
22 мая 2010 12:32
The European Union will apply sanctions against members who violate budgetary discipline. The EU finance ministers did not specify, however, on what terms and in what form the sanctions will be used. Strict financial discipline is now obligatory within the euro zone. Every EU country is required to cut costs all round regardless of the inconvenience.
3 мая 2010 12:01
Plans to launch the indirect talks failed last month over a row about Israeli plans to build 1,500 settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem. The Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state, then pulled out of the scheduled proximity talks in a show of protest.
25 апреля 2010 16:04
Poland's Defense Minister Bogdan Klich has urged Russia to speed up the investigation of the April 10 presidential plane crash near Smolensk and to follow the principles of openness and transparency. In his turn Russia's Vice Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov said that Russia does not intend to artificially delay the investigation and to hide any results.
24 апреля 2010 18:50
American Congressmen have accused ex-President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev of fraud in supplying fuel for the US air base “Manas” and have launched an inquiry. Bakiev, now in Minsk, denies the charges putting the blame on Moscow.
24 апреля 2010 13:06
Russia is sending a planeload of relief supplies to China, still smarting from the devastating more than 7 point earthquake that hit the country northwest on April 14. Another Emergencies Ministry transport aircraft is now being loaded at a military airfield outside Moscow.
10 апреля 2010 21:07
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller promises quick work also on the South Stream pipeline, to pump Russian natural gas to southern Europe. Miller made the pledge after Friday's start of the construction of the undersea leg of the Nord Stream pipe to deliver Russian gas to Germany and other European consumers.
14 марта 2010 14:33
The Rada Speaker Vladimir Litvin is concerned over the Ukrainian language being actually ousted by the Russian language. It may appear that Mr. Litvin is taking the side of Russophobes who are quite active in Ukraine nowadays.
6 марта 2010 17:06
The Georgian government is working out a new military doctrine and plans to replenish its stocks of antitank and air defense weapons it lost during the brief war of August 2008.
5 марта 2010 21:22
President Medvedev believes bad times in relations with Ukraine are a thing of the past and the two countries are entering a new era of good will, renewed friendship and pragmatic partnership. He was speaking about this in Moscow on Friday after emerging from a brief summit with his new Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich.
24 февраля 2010 12:24
With the global financial and economic crunch riding roughshod over globalization, some countries are starting to take urgent steps to protect their markets and increase their governments' clout in the economy. In light of this, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) move to reject an international capital flow principle did not come like a bolt from the blue.
23 февраля 2010 12:17
As Ukraine is getting ready to welcome its 4 th president, pollsters across the country have been studying the results on the latest surveys in which Ukrainians were asked to say what they think about the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine and the status of the Russian language.
23 января 2010 18:36
A new Russian-US treaty on strategic offensive weapons is likely to be signed quite soon. Now it is every minor technicality that is due to be agreed. This is what the Chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov and the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen have been engaged in, in Moscow.
20 января 2010 18:22
The residents of border regions of Russia will get an opportunity to watch Russian television programes and listen to radio broadcasting without disturbances this year. A digital broadcasting network will be launched in 12 regions in the Russian Far East and entire Russia will shift to digital format by 2015.
19 декабря 2009 17:08
A lying-in-state ceremony for Yegor Gaidar has been held at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. His daughter Maria has said she will have her dad cremated and his ashes buried some other day, possibly at the Novodevichy cemetery. The prominent politician and economist died on Wednesday.
13 декабря 2009 16:53
Over 2,000 people gathered in Moscow on Sunday for a jubilee congress of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party, or LDPR, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its creation.
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