Vladimir Romanchenko
23 июля 2010 20:55
Russia needs an Afghanistan that adopts modern democracy, expels the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and also quickly rolls back an intolerable situation in which the Afghan drug industry floods the former Soviet Union and Europe with illegal opiates. Accordingly, it lends support to the Afghan campaign of NATO.
10 июля 2010 18:04
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Russian diplomat Yuri Fedotov to head the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The UN chief praised Fedotov for being highly experienced, knowledgeable about world affairs and fully aware of the responsibilities that come with the job.
10 июля 2010 13:13
It is the Dutch against the Spanish in the single biggest football match in the entire sport, the 2010 World Cup Final scheduled for this coming Sunday. On Saturday Germans are facing Uruguay in a third-place play-off with both games triggering a wave of speculation from human soothsayers and even their colleagues from the animal world.
2 июля 2010 19:09
Final counts from last Sunday’s referendum in Kyrgyzstan return a 90-percent ‘yes’ to initiatives to radically devolve power from the presidency to Parliament, endorse the interim administration that took over from the ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiey and make Interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva Acting President for the period to 2012.
1 июля 2010 21:13
The world economy is in the “early stages of a third depression, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said in an interview on Thursday.
28 июня 2010 18:19
The Toronto G20 summit ended with no concrete agreement on cutting the countries' budgetary deficits and austerity measures. The participants couldn't overcome the controversies in economic issues and Barack Obama's model of borrowing clashed with European views on overcoming debts.
21 июня 2010 19:20
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy was unexpectedly frank when addressing the participants in St.Petersburg Economic Forum. Particularly, he urged Europe not to consider Russia its enemy. President Sarkozy argued that Europe needs a "common denominator," such as standardized financial systems. A new structure should unite Europe and Russia in a common economic space.
24 мая 2010 14:35
Polls show that more than 50 percent of Russians don’t object to lie detection during a job interview and are even interested in the procedure. However, some respondents don’t even know what a polygraph is, while others think they have nothing to conceal. Specialists have their own view on the issue.
23 мая 2010 19:09
Of the over 300 million people who lived in the Soviet Union, many are now abroad. But fortunately, despite obstacles created by countries like Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all stay united in their enthusiasm for the Russian language.
22 мая 2010 21:21
The two-year-old Continental Hockey League brings 20 ice hockey clubs in Russia together with one in Ukraine, one in Belarus, one in Kazakhstan and one in Latvia. Under a memorandum on Saturday, it is harmonizing contract terms with the National Hockey League of Canada. This should oil transfers and create appropriate conditions for resolving disputes.
21 мая 2010 20:06
Since the middle of last century, the Southeast Asian nation of Thailand has seen dozens of coups. The latest one was in the autumn of 2006, when the army deposed a popular Prime Minister named Thaksin Shinawatra. He is now abroad, but continues to command considerable support at home.
19 мая 2010 19:24
After examining both flight recorders and carrying out exhaustive computer simulations, Russian and Polish investigators have unveiled more conclusions concerning the April 10th Smolensk air crash that killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, together with almost 90 others Polish leaders and dignitaries. Mrs.
14 мая 2010 18:50
It’s too early to say the global financial crisis is over , Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin said at a joint session of Finance and Economic Ministries. The EU states have to undertake special measures to stabilize their financial situation. However, these are ordinary people who suffer from governments’ miscalculations, Putin said.
14 мая 2010 14:10
“Russky Newsweek” weekly carries an article presented as “Russia’s new foreign policy doctrine”. Experts assess the material as being at odds with reality.
12 мая 2010 22:01
After creating a euro stabilization fund, the European Union is going to its Euro-Parliament with a package of measures to tighten financial control around the EU and avert meltdowns of the kind that threatened Greece. Indeed, although the euro is not a dead project, it is a seriously wounded one.
6 мая 2010 16:33
As the world is preparing to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat and the end of World War II in Europe, it would be unfair not to mention Soviet diplomats and their tangible contribution to the cause of Victory.
22 апреля 2010 21:49
Speaking at an enhanced session of the state councils on science, education and culture in the Moscow Region city of Istr a on Thursday, President Dmitry Medvedev urged more efforts to help Russian young people to fulfill themselves in a modern-day world.
13 апреля 2010 21:50
"This is a small world", analysts say when commenting on the ongoing Nuclear Security Summit in Washington - an event that is attended by leaders from scores of countries from all across the globe.
7 апреля 2010 21:04
Reports from Kyrgyzstan speak about dozens dead and nearly 200 injured after police in Talas, Naryn and now the capital Bishkek used weapons to disperse crowds of protesters against corruption and economic hardship. Government buildings are under heavy police guard, and curfews are in force. Many foreign media and websites, including Russian, are inaccessible.
22 марта 2010 17:54
The participants in the International Congress of Russian Language Researchers currently underway in Moscow say the Russian language is rapidly gaining popularity in countries across Europe. According to experts in Russian philology, the Russian language is getting to play a consolidating role in Slavic countries.
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