Georgia’s Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli met US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US Trade Representative Ambassador Susan C. Schwab in Washington DC Monday, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 12, 2006
Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 14% [?]
December 6, 2006
North Korea will renounce its nuclear weapons if the U.S. withdraws nuclear arsenals from South Korea and other countries in the region, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Popularity: 7% [?]
The adoption of the American model for development has not created prosperity in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian republic’s state secretary was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying on Wednesday.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Russia has received EU assurances of support in the swift conclusion of multilateral talks on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), a Russian delegation member said on Friday quoted by Interfax.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 24, 2006Bush is attending the November 18-19 APEC summit in Hanoi. At first Moscow stop was planned for refuelling but Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Bush and his wife for a social visit during the stop.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 10, 2006Relations between Russia and the United States will continue to worsen regardless of which political party is at the helm of the American legislature, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a leading Russian expert as saying.
Popularity: 8% [?]
November 9, 2006Police in Manhattan Beach, California, have arrested a Russian teenager for allegedly stalking 19-year-old singer-actress Hilary Duff.
Maksim Myaskovskiy is alleged to have threatened to kill Duff. He was taken into custody on charges of stalking and making criminal threats, and is now being held on a $200,000 bail.
The young Russian is reported to have told a private investigator on Friday that he planned to murder Hilary Duff at a public event on Sunday.
Popularity: 6% [?]
November 7, 2006An annual study for the U.S. Congress finds that in 2005 Russia, for the first time, sold more arms to the developing world than the United States did, UPI said.
Russia’s sales included eight new aerial refueling tankers to China and surface to air missiles to Iran, The New York Times reported. Both deals make the U.S. government nervous because of the possibility of a crisis with China over Taiwan and with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
The report, “Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations,†found that Russia’s arms agreements with developing countries came to $7 billion, up from $5.4 billion in 2004. France was second with agreements totaling $6.3 million and the United States just behind at $6.2 billion.
India was the largest buyer among developing countries. Russia’s largest customers were India and China.
The United States continued to rank first in total arms sales, followed by France and Russia.
Popularity: 4% [?]
October 30, 2006The Russian registration Service has shut down a women’s monastery in the Tyumen region of Siberia. The state agency said that the monastery, headed by a U.S. citizen, failed to meet the registration rules for NGOs in Russia.
The check on Ishim monastery of St. John, carried out under the recent controversial law on NGOs, has revealed that the activities of the organization did not correspond to those declared in its order, RIA Novosti reports.
The monastery has been forced to seize its actions and move to its original location — Odessa, Ukraine. Besides, local registration officials have informed the Federal Security Service and to the Prosecutor’s Office about the case.
Local branch of the Registration Service registered 9,740 NGOs in the Tyumen, Yugra and Yamal regions in 2006, plus 2,785 public associations, including 410 religious associations.
The service has had to act on violations in 609 cases.
Popularity: 2% [?]
October 27, 2006
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