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Guinean President Moussa Dadis Camara was shot in the head by his military aide and chief of the presidential guard, Aboubacar �Toumba� Diakite. Shooting an unarmed person is not usually a complicated affair, but he bungled the job because Diakite�s only...
Tags: Guinean, Interior Ministry, Aboubacar �Toumba� Diakite, Moussa Dadis Camara, Sergei Magnitsky, Guinea, Conakry, Vladimir Putin
Petersburg Legislative Assembly stripped more than a hundred green spaces of legal protection amid controversy and protests on Wednesday...A Just Russia factions voting against the changes, the exclusion of 104 sites from the list of protected green spaces...
Tags: St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Alexei Kovalyov, United Russia party, United Russian, Vyacheslav Makarov, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Government of Saint Petersburg, Valentina Matviyenko, Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, Kovalyov, Kindergarten, Yabloko, Vladimir Putin
The Perm regional administration resigned en masse Wednesday after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered withering criticism in connection with a nightclub fire that killed at least 125 people. Perm Governor Oleg Chirkunov will form a new administration...
Tags: Perm Mayor Arkady Kats, Vladimir Putin, Interfax, interfax reported, Carnegie Moscow Center, Oleg Chirkunov, nightclub fired, region administration, Russia, Moscow, Perm, Politics, Dmitry Medvedev
Key gas exporting countries on Wednesday backed a Russian engineering executive, Leonid Bokhanovsky, to lead their efforts to control gas supplies on the global market, a sign that they recognize Moscow�s primary role in the plan. Bokhanovsky, first vice...
Tags: Russia, Moscow, Security, Federal cities of Russia, Russian Railways, Transit police, Rail transport in the Soviet Union, Disaster Accident, Saint Petersburg, Vladimir Putin
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Kiriyenko discussed Rosatom's cooperation with Russian and foreign partners and the corporation's development plans for 2010 in a meeting on Wednesday. "Next year we will commission the Bushehr plant in Iran;...
Tags: Sergei Kiriyenko, Iran, Bushehr, Russian, bushehr plant, Rosatom, power plant, Tehrān, Environment, Bushehr Province, Science and technology in Iran, Politics, Atomenergoprom, Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Vladimir Putin
It said the casualty figure may further rise as 36 people are still in a critical condition...The fire engulfed the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm last Saturday after an indoor fireworks display caused sparks to hit the suspended ceiling. The preliminary...
Tags: Russian Federation, Perm, nightclub fired, death toll, indoor firework, lame horse, firework display, urals city, Russia, Disaster Accident, Dmitry Medvedev, Ural, Agence France-Presse, Politics, Aeroflot Flight 821, Fireworks, Smoke, Oleg Chirkunov, Pyrotechnics, Vladimir Putin, Geography of Russia
Europe will have enough gas this winter provided Ukraine observes the agreements it has signed, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. "If our Ukrainian partners show a sense of responsibility, everything will be alright. Europe will have...
Tags: Eastern Europe, Russian, Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Moscow, Gazprom, Energy in Russia, Politics of Ukraine, Politics of Russia, Energy policy, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Environment, Nabucco pipeline, Gerhard Schrᅢᄊder, Pipeline transport, Russia¬タモUkraine gas disputes, Yulia Tymoshenko, Nord Stream
Inside the Kremlin, Manmohan Singh and Medvedev emerged from a meeting, shook hands and smiled at each other in front of a huge media presence in the imposing Malachite Hall. With a sense of purpose, as was evident from the Indo-Russian joint declaration,...
Tags: Indo-Russian, India, civil nuclear, Vladimir Putin, key partner, Russia, Moscow, Politics, Manmohan Singh, Sergei Kiriyenko, Russian ruble, Nuclear technology, Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, India¬タモRussia relations, Economic history of Russia, Currency, Koodankulam, Central Bank of Russia, United States dollar, Economy of the Soviet Union, Indian National Congress, G20 nations, Business Finance, Republics, Dmitry Medvedev, Ruble, VVER, Rosatom, Pressurized water reactors, Nuclear energy policy, Economy of Russia
About this Report Alexandra Szacka is our correspondent based in Moscow, covering Russia and Eastern Europe. She has reported extensively on the Putin Revolution, the growth of the Russian space program, and the war in Georgia. Other Recent In Depth...
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In a Tuesday meeting with Iranian Ambassador Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi, Russia's Deputy Ecology Minister Igor Maidanov asked Iran to help the project of reintroducing leopards to the Caucasus region. Turkmenistan gave Russia two male leopards, but the country...
Tags: Russian Caucasus, Persian, persian leopards, Iran, Russia, Sochi, Iranian culture, Persian Leopard, Leopards, Politics, Persian people, Amur Leopard, Caucasus, Vladimir Putin