Election 2011/2012

Bill for direct mayoral elections introduced in Moscow duma

24.05.2012 19:23   News dept., edited by Semyon Kvasha

Moscow City Hall

United Russia has introduced a bill to the Moscow Duma setting out the rules for a mayoral election, Interfax reported, citing a source in the city's...

Iniquities

Russian motorcyclists accused of espionage in Iraq, detained and released

24.05.2012 19:13   Ekaterina Saviba, edited by Semyon Kvasha

4 Russian riders planned to go through Georgia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and return home through Central Asian republics.

Four Russian motorcyclists who were held in an Iraqi prison under suspicion of espionage, are to be released by the order of Iraqi government, Iraqi...

Defense Ministry considers abandoning radar station in Azerbaijan

24.05.2012 16:45  

Russia's Defense Ministry has expressed discontent over the conditions of extending a missile defense radar station lease in Gabala, Azerbaijan, a source...

Occupy!

Opposition leaders Navalny and Udalstov released from jail

24.05.2012 14:02   News dept

Alexey Navalny was greeted by dozens of journalists and supporters

Famous opposition leader Alexey Navalny was released on Thursday, after 15 days in jail. He was detained for disobeying police on May 9 near metro station...

CIS States

S. Ossetian opposition get major posts in new government

24.05.2012 12:27   Lev Makedonov, edited by Karina Ayvazova

Alla Djioeva will now be reponsible for the social sphere in the state

The rebel state of South Ossetia has turned the page of the events of 2011, when the political battle between the former president Eduard Kokoity and his...

Chelyabinsk school director stands up against ethnic profiling by police

23.05.2012 19:58   Viktor Semyonov (Chelyabinsk), edited by Semyon Kvasha

Alexander Popov, a school director, a mathematician, a philosopher, a poet and a brave man from Chelyabinsk.

Chelyabinsk police find themselves having to make excuses after a well-publicised case of ethnic profiling. They sent a request for information to...

Iniquities

Book fest earlier prohibited by city authorities receives approval

23.05.2012 17:18   News dept

The festival initially should have taken place on Shkolnaya street. It was now decided that the book fair will be held at the Taganskiy park

Taganskiy book festival which was prohibited by Moscow authorities as it resembled opposition "strolls", was given approval on Thursday, Ilya Sviridov from...

Iron curtain

Russia tests new missile amid tensions with NATO defense system in Europe

23.05.2012 16:37   Sergey Smirnov, edited by Karina Ayvazova

Russia has launched a new intercontinental missile Wednesday morning from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia

Russia has launched a new intercontinental missile Wednesday morning from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, Interfax news agency reported.

Iniquities

Russian parliament increases protest fines 300-fold

23.05.2012 12:10   Ekaterina Vinokurova, edited by Karina Ayvazova

Alexander Sidyakin, a United Russia deputy, who became the author of the new law.

Russian parliament has adopted, in the first reading, a new law which automatically increases fines for violating rallies rules 300 fold. 

Occupy!

Occupy Russia - dozens of protesters take part in rallies in different regions

22.05.2012 22:37   Alexandra Garzhamapova (Saint Petersburg), Christina Farberova (Novosibirsk), Yaroslav Gunin (Nizny Novgorod), Alexei Dmitriyev (Astrakhan), Dmitry Trunov (Kaliningrad), Sergei Teplyakov (Barnaul), Dmitry Antonenkov (Yekaterinburg), Ivan Petrov (Vladivostok), edited by Semyon Kvasha

The Moscow protest strolls which started on Vladimir Putin's inauguration day have begun to spread all over Russia. Occupy camps have sprung up in...