Family photo album of last Russian czar shown for first time
Source: Japan Times
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-05-18 10:07:28 -0700 | political-news
Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia's last czar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album that has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum. The photographs, most of...
Russia and US play jailhouse chess
Source: BBC
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-05-15 12:44:09 -0700 | political-news
Russia and US jail inmates in Skype chess tournament BBC News The Cook County prisoners played on secure lap-tops Convicts in Russia have teamed up to play a chess tournament via Skype with inmates at the biggest jail in the...
Family album of last...
Source: Arab News
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-05-11 15:07:28 -0700 | political-news
Sunday 12 May 2013 Last Update 12 May 2013 12:40 am Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia's last tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album which has now come...
Fancy Cars and Booze Fuel Russian Online Petitions
Source: Global Voices
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-04-13 18:30:11 -0700 | political-news
Last month RuNet Echo reported [GV] on a proposed Russian government online petition platform, similar to We the People , a White House-run project in the US, where after reaching a certain amount of signatures a petition would be addressed...
1.5 kg of emerald found inside rock
Source: NewKerala
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-04-10 07:07:29 -0700 | political-news
A deposit of emerald crystals weighing an estimated 1.5 kg has been discovered in a lump of rock in Russia, an official said. The rock was found in Sverdlovsk region, said Firat Nurmukhametov, director of the rocks centre of the...
Coherent approach needed on visa liberalisation (Opinion)
Source: Euractiv
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2013-04-08 23:39:11 -0700 | political-news
Coherent approach needed on visa liberalisation Published 04 August 2013, updated 09 April 2013 Peter Van Elsuwege is a professor of EU law at Ghent University in Belgium. "On 11 March 2013, the European Commission published the common steps towards...
Russia's Nuclear Submarine Catches Fire at Shipyard(Video)
Posted by: fahadulhassan
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2012-04-10 15:45:23 -0700 | political-news
A massive fire aboard a Russian nuclear submarine at a naval shipyard has been put out according to the country's emergencies minister. After the submarine caught fire,it was submerged into water to reduce the intensity of flames and after a...
Russia clamps down on opposition before elections
Posted by: mustafa77
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2012-03-22 03:11:06 -0700 | political-news
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Last Halloween, the opposition here put together a daring demonstration, portraying Vladimir Putin as Count Dracula and President Dmitry Medvedev as Frankenstein. Lesser officials were turned into a collection of werewolves and mummies, and licking their lips...
Sofia Airport passenger traffic hits record-high in 2010, freight still low
Source: Sofia Echo
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2011-03-24 12:57:22 -0700 | business-news
The airport handled 3.3 million passengers in 2010, up by 5.2 per cent and two per cent compared with 2009 and 2008, respectively, while the volume of cargo and postal shipments was just more than 15 300 tons, about 200...
2018: a Russian odyssey | Luke Harding
Source: The Guardian
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2011-02-07 23:33:55 -0800 | sports-news
Russian odyssey England just can't match the historic sweep of this post-Soviet World Cup and the Russian trains are great The venue was one of Moscow's swankier Italian restaurants, the theme Russia's 2018 World Cup prospects. Pushing to one side...
Good news!!!! Zardari, Singh agree on secretary level talks
Posted by: TaniaRana
Yekaterinburg :: Russia | updated 2012-02-25 06:33:03 -0800 | political-news
Good news!!!! Zardari, Singh agree on secretary level talks YEKATERINBURG, Russia: The eight-month-long Pakistan-India stalled peace process got a fresh lease of life as President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan met here on Tuesday on the sidelines...
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