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. Vladimir Litvin thinks that the Russian language is more competitive than the Ukrainian, and if the former is... →
Rescuers on the Sakhalin Island have recovered the bodies of four people who were killed while trying to save 15 amateur fishermen from in ice floe that broke away and drifted into the Sea of Okhotsk. Two fishermen and two rescuers were hurrying for the scene to help evacuate the people when strong winds overturned their boat. The day before,... →
Lyudmila Voynova, a citizen of Russia, is seeking help from Finland’s President Tarja Halonen. Lyudmila fears that her daughter, Inga Rantala, who has a Finnish husband, fell victim to russophobia. On February 4, authorities in Turku, where the family lives, placed Inga’s son Robert, who has a dual citizenship, into an asylum and filed... →
Russia has sent two planeloads of humanitarian supplies to Chile as the country continues to overcome the aftermath of the quake it was hit by two weeks ago. As of today, Russia has already supplied some 60 tons of humanitarian cargo, including tents, electric generators, medicine and food. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry also opened a... →
A squally wind hit the North-East of USA this Saturday, leaving about 450 thousand consumers without electricity. The strongest blow came on New York and New Jersey states, the wind power the record 450 km per hour, leaving 265 thousand people without electricity. The ferry communication with the New York district of Staten Island has been... →
Two airplanes of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in Chili on Saturday, bringing rescuers, doctors, psychologists and a mobile hospital with special equipment and medicines to help cope with the aftermath of a series of earthquakes that stroke this Latin American country. Another two lots of Russian humanitarian aid, including... →
A half million ticket holders are in limbo after the cabin crews of British Airways voted in support of a two-stage strike from next Saturday against staffing and scheduling changes. There will be a break for the Easter period. The company says it is doing everything in its power to keep at least some of its flights to Moscow and St Petersburg... →
Moscow detectives are after three bandits who brazenly fired on police, leaving one officer dead and another badly wounded. The shooting took place in the early hours of Saturday after the two officers pulled over a speeding BMW car without registration plates on it. The people inside opened fire and drove away. Two... →
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. →
Rescuers on the Sakhalin Island have recovered the bodies of four people who were killed while trying to save 15 amateur fishermen from in ice floe that broke away and drifted into the Sea of Okhotsk. Two fishermen and two rescuers were hurrying for the scene to help evacuate the people when strong winds overturned their boat. →
Lyudmila Voynova, a citizen of Russia, is seeking help from Finland’s President Tarja Halonen. Lyudmila fears that her daughter, Inga Rantala, who has a Finnish husband, fell victim to russophobia. →
Russia has sent two planeloads of humanitarian supplies to Chile as the country continues to overcome the aftermath of the quake it was hit by two weeks ago. As of today, Russia has already supplied some 60 tons of humanitarian cargo, including tents, electric generators, medicine and food. →
A squally wind hit the North-East of USA this Saturday, leaving about 450 thousand consumers without electricity. The strongest blow came on New York and New Jersey states, the wind power the record 450 km per hour, leaving 265 thousand people without electricity. The ferry communication with the New York district of Staten Island has been temporarily stopped. →
Two airplanes of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in Chili on Saturday, bringing rescuers, doctors, psychologists and a mobile hospital with special equipment and medicines to help cope with the aftermath of a series of earthquakes that stroke this Latin American country. →
A half million ticket holders are in limbo after the cabin crews of British Airways voted in support of a two-stage strike from next Saturday against staffing and scheduling changes. There will be a break for the Easter period. →
Moscow detectives are after three bandits who brazenly fired on police, leaving one officer dead and another badly wounded. The shooting took place in the early hours of Saturday after the two officers pulled over a speeding BMW car without registration plates on it. The people inside opened fire and drove away. →
Police authorities in Ireland have released three of seven people detained on suspicion of scheming to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog in a widely reported incident in 2007. Mr. Lars Vilks has been receiving threatening E-mails, and a group with a connection to Al-Qaeda has placed a hundred thousand dollars on his head. →
Unknown hoodlums have daubed anti-Semitic slur on a Polish memorial on the site of a death camp where the Nazis murdered the inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto of Krakow. For a clean-up, the authorities have just a few hours before scheduled commemorations on the 67 th anniversary of the ghetto removal. →
A delegation from the Russian city of Kostomuksha is taking part in events underway in the Finnish city of Suomussalmi in connection with the 70 th anniversary of the end of the 1939-1940 Soviet-Finnish war, known as the Winter War. The Russian representatives laid wreaths to war graves and visited Red Army memorials. →
20 years ago this county witnessed a development that ended one dramatic period in Soviet history and ushered in an altogether different one. Article 6 of the Constitution on the guiding role of the Soviet Communist Party was abolished on March 14 th 1990. An office of national president was simultaneously instituted in the USSR. →
In the walkup to the 10 th Paralympics in Vancouver the organizers of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi have unveiled a book which is all about the lives of handicapped athletes. →
Deciphering wartime photos taken from American planes has helped authorities in southern Austria discover two mass graves with an estimated 70 sets of remains in them. Both pits are under a football pitch inside an Austrian military base. Experts believe the skeletons there are of people shot dead by the Nazis shortly before the liberation of Austria. →
An exploding gas cylinder has caused a blaze on an Egyptian express train crossing the Nile Delta. Miraculously, all 600 or so passengers on it escaped injury by jumping into a thick orchard near the embankment. Reports say one of them had pulled an emergency brake valve. Eight years ago, a fire on an Egyptian train resulted in 375 deaths. →
A rescue operation to save 11 fishermen stranded on an ice floe is currently underway in the east of Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East. Harsh weather conditions, including gale force winds, snowstorms and high-altitude waves, have complicated the rescue effort. 15 fishermen had gone ice-fishing despite danger warnings. 4 have been rescued by now. →
Six civilians are reported killed in Oruzgan Province in Afghanistan after a mine went off in close vicinity to a passing passenger bus at the approaches to Tarin. Attacks of this kind are commonly used by terrorists against coalition forces, but much more often they kill civilians. →
A European Parliament spokesman, Pavel Zalevski, has said the making of Ukraine’s Nationalist leader Stepan Bandera Hero of Ukraine by former President Victor Yushechenko is at odds with European values. →
Somali pirates have launched another abortive attack in the Indian Ocean. According to the Mombasa-based Programme to Support Seamen in East Africa, the pirates tried to seize the German cargo container ship Luebeck 450 miles away from the Seychelles on Thursday. →
Four rebel fighters have been wiped out in a special operation in a Dagestani village, in the North Caucasus. According to the republican Department of the Interior, all militants were part of the Khasavyurt sabotage and terrorist gang. They were blocked in a private home. When told to lay down arms, the militants opened fire. →
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