Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused China and Russia of breaching a United Nations arms embargo by continuing to supply weapons to the Sudanese authorities for use in Darfur.
Popularity: 10% [?]
May 8, 2007Russia has offered India a one percent equity stake worth $1 billion in state-controlled oil firm Rosneft, the Financial Express said in an unsourced report on Tuesday.
Popularity: 8% [?]
An explosion in Ukraine on Monday knocked out of service one of the main pipelines exporting Russian natural gas to the European Union, but was not expected to affect supplies, officials said.
Popularity: 11% [?]
Swedish prosecutors have charged a group of 24 Russians and Swedes with human trafficking, pimping and buying sex from nine Russian women, the AFP news agency reports.
Popularity: 13% [?]
April 18, 2007Russian nuclear contractor Atomstroyexport cannot complete the work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant by the end of 2007, Igor Ivanov, secretary of Russia’s Security Council said on Tuesday, April 17. Ivanov sited cash crunch and technical problems as reasons for the delay.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Organizers of Boston Marathon has played wrong anthem as Russian Lidiya Grigoryeva won the race and accepted her trophy on Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Popularity: 5% [?]
April 17, 2007Washington needs to think twice before launching a military campaign against Tehran as such an attack would have global implications, the RIA-Novosti quoted a senior Russian military official as saying on Tuesday.
Popularity: 8% [?]
April 3, 2007Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has released previously classified files on a double agent who, under the codename “Brittâ€, passed secrets to Moscow from inside British intelligence in the 1940s, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Russia’s leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday.
Popularity: 8% [?]
The widow and friends of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have started a charitable foundation in his name.
Popularity: 5% [?]
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