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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:04:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5298030.html The world’s first Diamond iPad tablet computer developed by Apple Inc. has entered assembly lines in the US. Reports by Interfax say Mervis Diamond Importers is launching the luxury version of Apple iPad in a limited number of batches by early summer. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5297693.html At least two Army servicemen were injured in a hand grenade blast earlier today in the Thai capital Bangkok, the site of a many-thousand strong antigovernment rally. The protesters, pressing for a change of constitution, disbandment of parliament and for holding another election, have blocked the city centre. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:50:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5296944.html The Russian president’s ombudsman for children Pavel Astakhov will seek a meeting with Finland’s President Tarja Halonen on his upcoming trip to Helsinki, beginning Tuesday, to discuss the situation around a seven-year-old boy with dual Russian-Finnish citizenship who was forcibly taken away from his family by authorities in Turku. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:36:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5297065.html Founder of the new branch of semiconductor physics and electronics, Academician Zhores Alfyorov is celebrating his 80 th birth anniversary on March 15 th . The ability of speaking about physics in simple phrases is characteristic of this prominent Russian scientist, whose book "Physics and Life" is popular among both specialists and ordinary people. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:35:00 +0300 Pshenitsina Olga http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5296834.html The Russian airborne hospital of the Emergencies Ministry Rescue Service has started operation in Chile, which has recently been hit by a series of devastating earthquakes. Russian doctors have performed four major surgical operations in the past 24 hours. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:35:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5296459.html Figure skater Yevgeny Plushenko will be awarded a special gold medal, which is expected to be produced in the nearest future. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:32:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5296366.html An air mobile hospital of the Russian Emergencies Ministry is working round the clock in Santiago. Russian doctors and their Chilean colleagues are saving dozens of lives in the wake of the devastating earthquake, which destroyed most of the local hospitals and medical centers. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:27:00 +0300 Volkova Marina http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5297503.html Google is likely to close its Chinese-language search engine within a few weeks after failing to agree on terms under which it should be operated, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google first threatened to shutter its search engine in China in January following a series of hacker attacks on its network security. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5295706.html Russia ranks second after the US in terms of arms exports from 2005 to 2009, The Guardian says citing a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The report says t he US remains the world's top arms exporter, accounting for 30% of the total, followed by Russia (23%), Germany (11%), and France (8 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:11:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5293861.html The prominent Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alferov is 80 today. In the year 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental research into heterostructure physics and electronics. In other words, it was thanks to him that mobile phones and CDs have come into being and are now available to one and all. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:44:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5292914.html Russia is not considering a merger of the Nabucco and South Stream gas pipelines, says Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko in a comment on a proposal by the CEO of the Italian oil and gas company Eni Paolo Scaroni. Last week Signor Scaroni suggested merging part of the two pipelines’ routes to reduce operational costs and boost their efficiency. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:26:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5292818.html A unique township for seniors is due to be built in Japan, one that will provide them with an opportunity to lead an active life, take care of their health and work, if they so wish. The future residential compound is due to be located in the built-up area of Kashiwa, in the immediate vicinity of Tokyo. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:25:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5291484.html Single election day of March 14 has probably become one of the quietest in the history of Russia. Both the participants and the observers agree on this. Last Sunday Russia held numerous elections and referendums in 76 regions. Eight regions elected local parliaments. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:56:00 +0300 Solovyov Vyacheslav http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5290975.html The crew of the Thai Union-3 vessel is back in Russia after being held in captivity by Somali pirates for over four months. According to the seamen, they are now enjoying their long-awaited reunion with their relatives and friends. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:48:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5289057.html The Gazeta daily reports on Russia’s biggest-scale, in terms of organization, elections to the local bodies of government on Sunday. Election campaigns were held in this country’s 75 regions. The ruling United Russia party has secured a majority in regional parliaments. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:09:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5286577.html A Strong cyclone has brought heavy snowfall from China to the city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. The snow has caused chaos and numerous road accidents. Currently the traffic in Vladivostok is snarled. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:59:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5286428.html It will be five years on March 15 th since the international company Amway operating in more than 80 countries, opened its office in Moscow. The US-based company specialises in manufacturing of a wide range of cosmetics, perfumes, household goods, quality steel kitchen utensils and nutrients. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:55:00 +0300 Nikitenko Eugene http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5286210.html Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to take up prospects for boosting economic cooperation with Turkmenistan, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:54:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5286080.html The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is going to meet the leaders of Russia and five Central Asian countries to take up joint measures to fight drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:47:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5286226.html A copy of a unique wooden palace, which used to be a residence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the middle 17 th century, was unveiled at the Kolomenskoye estate in Moscow, Rossiya TV channel reports. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5285771.html A scandal around the recent provocative report by the Georgian TV channel Imedi on an alleged Russian military attack has triggered condemnations from around the world. The French Foreign Ministry has urged to call to book all those behind the haox. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:35:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5285826.html Pope Benedict XVI paid his first visit to a Lutheran church in Rome. Addressing the congregation, Pope said that Protestants and Roman Catholics should be thankful for a possibility to achieve unity in prayer. On 17 January Benedict XVI paid a historic visit to the synagogue in Rome. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:27:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5285430.html Russia ’s navy has turned over seven pirates to the breakaway state of Somaliland, where they will stand trial, a spokesperson for the local police said. In early February the Neustrashimy ship of the Russian Navy captured the pirates as they were trying to attack the Slovenia-flagged Ariella ship. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:06:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5284658.html Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has turned down an ultimatum to stand down by tens of thousands of protesters as they marched on a military barracks sheltering members of his government. The demonstrators demanded Abhisit call new elections or face a mounting wave of protests. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:22:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5284294.html The ruling United Russia party is leading in Sunday's regional elections. According to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission the vote held in 76 out of 83 Russian regions has been successful also for other parties represented in the State Duma lower house of parliament. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:06:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5283844.html Search efforts resumed on Sunday for potential victims after a massive Boulder Mountain avalanche killed at least two people Saturday afternoon some 550 km northeast of Vancouver, Canada. RCMP confirmed two were dead after the avalanche hit an annual extreme-snowmobiling event attended by more than 200 people. The avalanche hit just before 3:30 p.m. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:47:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5283814.html A Yemeni air raid against a "terrorist cell" in the southeast of the country has killed two senior Al-Qaeda members, the defense ministry said in a statement early Monday. The air strike happened in the Abyan province around 500 kilometers southeast of the nation’s capital Sanaa. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:32:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5283546.html 11 people died and 19 were injured when a passenger bus with 30 passengers inside overturned Saturday in China’s northern Jiangxi province after the driver lost control of the vehicle on an icy road. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:51:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/15/5283097.html A moderate, magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattled Chile on Sunday with the US Geological Survey saying the epicenter was 35 km deep some 100 km northwest of the town of Temuco. We have no immediate reports so far about human casualties and material damage caused by the temblor. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5283026.html Russia's cross-country skier Irek Zaripov has won a gold medal in Men's 15 km Sitting at the 2010 Paralympics in Vancouver finishing the distance at the Whistler Paralympic Park in 41 minutes 01.01 seconds. Roman Petushkov, also of Russia, finished 10 seconds behind to win silver. Enzo Masiello of Italy finished in the third place. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:52:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5282451.html About 200 fishermen trapped on an ice-drift in the Kaliningrad gulf in the West of Russia have been rescued. The fishermen ignored the warning about the thin ice and when they came to the gulf for fishing the ice broke and several fishermen's cars sank. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:50:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5282443.html At IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, Russian high Ivan Ukhov won gold taking 2.36 m height. His compatriot Yaroslav Rybakov won silver taking 2.31 m, while US jumper Dusty Jonas is the third with the same result. Russian Maria Savinova won gold in the 800meteres run showing the fastest time 1m 58,26 seconds. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5281651.html The former Polish Premier Leszek Miller believes his country risks falling out of the international mainstream unless it abandons attempts to make NATO and the European Union enemies of Russia. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:51:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5281616.html Saturday’s mock war report on Georgian television has attracted wide international condemnation. France has advised the Georgian government to investigate the incident and punish the perpetrators. Russia has described the telecast as an ugly provocation. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:49:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5281368.html Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov have presented books to the children from Russian orphanages. The event took place in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:28:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5281360.html Two Russian emergencies ministry planes have arrived in Chile carrying rescuers, supplies and equipment including a mobile hospital to help the earthquake-stricken country, RIA Novosti news agency reported Sunday. The mobile hospital is capable of providing care for more than 200 victims. On February 27, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Chile. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:27:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5281336.html Reports speak about big turnouts at the elections to local parliaments in 76 regions of Russia. According to the data of the Central Election Commission, about 32 million of voters have been registered across the country which is one third of all Russian citizens who have the right to vote. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5279441.html The Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has extended by three more days a closure of the Palestinian territories, first introduced on Thursday midnight to prevent further Palestinian protests at Israeli plans for 15 hundred new Jewish homes in Arab East Jerusalem. Clashes before the closure resulted in about a hundred non-fatal casualties. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:56:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5279345.html The Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has suggested his scenario to settle the Kosovo issue. He invites the Albanian leaders to allow Serbia annex the northern territories of the republic in exchange for a long-term truce with Belgrade. However, Dodik admits that the division is being opposed not only in Pristina but in Serbia as well. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:53:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5279340.html A folk show in Maykop in the Russian Caucasus has marked 157 years since the Cherkess people of the surrounding Adyghe Region got their first ABC book. There were just 52 copies, printed in Arabic characters for Cherkess schools in Stavropol and Yekaterinodar, presently Krasnodar. The author was Umar Bersey. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:53:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5279332.html The top prize of this year’s film festival in Sofia has gone to a Russian screen drama about five Soviet women in isolation on a small island together with their children, fathered by Nazi soldiers. The director is Vera Glagoleva. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:51:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5278850.html The Russian team took the lead on the very first day of the Winter Paralympics in Canada. The athletes have already won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals and currently tops the overall ratings. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +0300 Volkova Marina http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5278794.html Russia's ombudsman for children Pavel Astakhov and Finland's Ambassador to Russia Matti Anttonen have called for bilateral dialogue on assistance in lawsuits related to family disputes. As the number of mixed marriages keeps growing, both sides are aware that a separate treaty is needed to regulate problems occurring in case of divorce. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:25:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5277619.html On Sunday, over 30 million people, nearly one-third of Russia's eligible voters, are expected to go to polling stations in 76 regions across the country. Some 6,000 elections are being held simultaneously. All polling data is being fed into the Central Elections Commissions' database. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:39:00 +0300 Korotun Lada http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5277560.html Fake news broadcast by the Georgian Imedi TV channel on Saturday about an alleged Russian invasion and the alleged Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:36:00 +0300 http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5277512.html 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. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:33:00 +0300 Borisov Dmitry http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/14/5277422.html The famous Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has advertised its fourth “I Want Home” action to give away part of the cats guarding the imperial Winter Palace. Cats have been there since the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. Currently living in the Hermitage are about 50 cats, each having a passport with a photograph. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:27:00 +0300