Contributor Reports3,000 Russians protest Saint Petersburg skyscraper plan
Source: Kuwait Times
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Sat Oct 10 21:35:20 -0700 2009 | political-news
Around 3,000 Russians held an angry protest yesterday against a controversial plan by state-run energy giant Gazprom to build a huge skyscraper in the country's former imperial capital. Demonstrators held signs saying "Gazprom go home" and "History is worth more...
Protest against new hunting law in Russia
Posted by: nikolaev
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Mon Aug 03 09:57:16 -0700 2009 | political-news
St.Petersburg, Russia, 31.07.2009 - A protest against new law about hunting took place in St.Petersburg. About 20 activists took part in the performance, in which a hunter "kills" the actors with masks of animals. The law about hunting was issued...
ReachRussian Constitutional Court Backs Manana Aslamazyan
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fonchik 
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Sat Oct 03 23:55:27 -0700 2009 | political-news
In its first session in its new home in St. Petersburg, the constitutional court on May 27 upheld the appeal by Manana Aslamazyan, former head of the Educated Media Fund (formerly Internews Russia), which for 15 years supported independent media....
Ban Mourns Victims Of Russian Train Bombing
Source: Scoop
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Mon Nov 30 16:45:50 -0800 2009 | political-news
Secretary-General Mourns Victims Of Russian Train Bombing New York, Nov 30 2009 4:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced the hope today that investigations will shed more light on the circumstances behind the bombing of a Russian train that killed 25 people...
Medvedev-Putin show brings Kremlinology back in fashion
Source: Taiwan News
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Sun Nov 22 09:03:40 -0800 2009 | political-news
A presidential marionette controlled by a master prime minister-puppeteer? Or is Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev a visionary reformer with a mind of his own, slowly but surely sidelining his mentor, Prime Minister and former president Vladimir Putin?
Russian Communists protest removal of Lenin statue
Source: The independent
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | updated Tue Oct 27 01:54:21 -0700 2009 | political-news
Russian communists protested Monday that authorities had secretly removed a statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin after it was damaged in an April Fool's Day explosion. The statue -- featuring a huge hole in its buttocks since the prank blast...
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