Lada Korotun
18 мая 2012 21:58
Ingushetia is the leader among the North Caucasus entities in the industrial production growth rate, in income per capita and in wages. With such indices one of the youngest republics in the Russian Federation will mark the 20th anniversary of its coming into being.
14 мая 2012 15:03
The center of economic development is shifting eastwards. There is a consensus of opinions between the UN experts that the restoration of the global economy will start in the Asian-Pacific region.
7 мая 2012 14:20
May 7th is Day of Radio in Russia. It’s on May 7th 1895 that an outstanding Russian researcher, Alexander Popov presented the world’s first radio set that he had designed.
4 мая 2012 20:15
Football has recently become a political game. The Euro Commission has decided to boycott Euro 2012 events that are to be held in Ukraine and Poland due to concerns over the Tymoshenko case. The FIFA head Joseph Blatter has opposed the measure urging politicians to think about its consequences as football should unite people not divide them.
26 апреля 2012 21:28
The time is ripe for the beginning of a political dialogue in Syria, Qadri Jamil, leader of Syria’s opposition Popular Front for Change and Liberation, said on Thursday.
25 апреля 2012 17:00
Russia's lower chamber of parliament has approved in the final reading a presidential bill restoring elections of governors in the country. The bill has been wrangled over – certain parliamentary factions objected to it during the second reading. In 2004, then-President Vladimir Putin banned such elections, and governors were appointed by the president.
23 апреля 2012 20:14
Highly qualified foreign experts have willingly started to arrive in the Russian capital. This is the result of the liberalization of Russian legislation, says the head of the Moscow Department of Migration Service Fyodor Karpovets in an interview with the Voice of Russia. An increase in the number of elite foreign workers has become a recent tendency.
19 апреля 2012 20:43
“Trust, but verify” – that’s how Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on NATO’s claims that the European missile defense system is no threat to Russia. Assurances to this effect came in the immediate wake of Thursday’s anniversary meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels.
19 апреля 2012 20:14
Special services of Russia and the United States are conducting a joint anti-drug operation in Afghanistan, Russian Federal Drug Control Service chief Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday. He added that the operation aims to destroy an array of drug laboratories located at important narcotics-trafficking crossroads in Afghanistan.
18 апреля 2012 16:24
An end to all violence and non-intervention from abroad: this is Moscow’s position with regard to the ongoing events in Syria. Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of Russia’s Council of Federation (the upper chamber of parliament) Mikhail Margelov declared this during his meeting with representatives of the Syrian opposition in Moscow.
14 апреля 2012 17:47
Speaking with reporters in Moscow the chief of the PACE electoral mission in Russia Tiny Kox said that the presidential elections in March had a “clear winner” and that was Vladimir Putin. The European politician said that further political reforms are needed to strengthen people’s confidence in the fairness of the elections.
12 апреля 2012 02:05
Prime Minister and President Elect Vladimir Putin believes the Russian lawmakers must put their political differences to one side and work as one for the common cause of making Russia a competitive modern economy and an even stronger world power.
10 апреля 2012 21:55
“Rumors about a NATO military base in Ulyanovsk – a provocation”, Russia`s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin wrote in his Twitter account on Tuesday. This is how Mr. Rogozin reacted to a hunger strike announced by the Communist Party members in Ulyanovsk to protest against a NATO base at a local airport.
4 апреля 2012 21:15
The last remaining “dinosaur” of the Cold War - the Jackson-Vanik amendment - will soon become extinct –believes the head of Russia’s upper house Foreign Affairs Committee Mikhail Margelov. By late spring, US Congress is to review the abolition of the amendment that among other restrictions limits hi-tech imports to Russia.
3 апреля 2012 13:13
Counternarcotics agencies of the members of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan) have made a new proposal to NATO on tackling Afghan drug threat. It envisages that the SCO fights against drug dealers in its member countries while NATO destroys poppy fields in Afghanistan.
29 марта 2012 15:18
The political system in Russia is being radically reformed to make it easier for citizens to form parties. The number of people required before a potential party can be registered has been reduced by 80 times, meaning that the demand for a specific number of organizations required to qualify for registration has been revoked.
21 марта 2012 22:46
The magazine, “Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn” (“International Life”), the first of its kind on Foreign Policy that is published in Russia is marking an anniversary. The first issue appeared in March, 90 years ago.
20 марта 2012 17:38
The European parliament’s rapporteur for Russia Hannes Swoboda has called on the Russian opposition to switch from street protests to establishing a constructive interaction with the Russian government. He has also urged his colleagues in the European parliament to refrain from resolutions which may throw doubt on the results of the vote of the Russian citizens.
17 марта 2012 15:46
The EU countries’ closer cooperation with Russia could help resuscitate the economy of Europe, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said during the 14th session of the Association of European Senates in Paris on Friday.
15 марта 2012 15:28
Russia will share its experience in overcoming the financial-economic crisis with Europe, Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko said during her visit to France. She is taking part in the session of the European Senates (AES) in Paris (March 15th to 16th).
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