Friday 3rd September, 2010
Woman stabs father, kills self
A woman fatally stabbed her father and then jumped to her death from their sixth-storey apartment in Moscow after he refused to visit her grandfather's grave.
Russia launches navigation satellites
Russia Thursday launched a rocket carrying three navigation satellites from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
Two dead as new fires destroy homes in Russia
Russia have left at least two people dead and injured more than a dozen others as some 500 buildings went up in flames near Volgograd and Saratov.President
Fears Grow Over Global Food Supply After Russia Moves
CNBCRussia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent o...
Aeroflot Sues Moscow for Traffic Jam
St Petersburg TimesAndrei Makhonin / Vedomosti Aeroflot is seeking $3.7 million in damages from City Hall for losses after a traffic jam on Leningradskoye Shosse.
Building Collapse Causes Traffic Mayhem
St Petersburg TimesAlexander Belenky / The St. Petersburg Times Two policemen walk past the building on Ligovsky Prospekt the day after the internal flooring structures collapsed.
Heat, Hurricane Push Up Prices
St Petersburg TimesA number of regions in the European section of Russia are now facing shortages in eggs that will in turn lead to significant price increases. The shortages are largely the result of the exceptionally ...
Well-Known Emigres Rally At Foreign Demonstrations
St Petersburg TimesThe 31st rallies, which took place in London, Berlin, New York and Tel Aviv, attracted only a handful of people, but some well-known emigres were spotted among the protesters.
Russian Oil Premium Vanishing on Refinery Cuts: Energy Markets
Business WeekSept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russian crude’s unprecedented premium to North Sea Brent is vanishing as European refiners switch to higher-value blends and scale back purchases to protect their profits.
Russia To Strengthen Black Sea Fleet with 15 New Combat Ships and Subs
General Sourcesreports with reference to Commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky. In addition, two vessels of the Baltic Fleet will be redeployed to the Black Sea to struggle against piracy.
Russia's Medvedev Flies to USA to Solve Mysteries of Silicon Valley
General SourcesRussia's Dmitry Medvedev starts a long visit to North America on June 22. His tour of the continent will end next Monday. On June 22-24 Medvedev is visiting the USA. Afterwards, on June 25-27, he is t...
Spain Arrests Russian Wanted Over Deadly Night Club Blaze
Quote.com(RTTNews) - Police in Spain have arrested a Russian man wanted in connection with a deadly night club fire that killed over a hundred people in Russia in 2009, said officials on Thursday.According to...
Deaths in new Russia wildfires
Al JazeeraA fresh wave of wildfires that engulfed more than a dozen villages and towns in southern Russia has killed at least two people and destroyed hundreds of homes, officials say. Hundreds of blazes drive...
Russian fires start up again
West AustralianForest and brush fires have flared up again in southern Russia, killing one person and burning down more than a hundred houses, the emergencies ministry said on Thursday.Strong winds stoked fires that...
Russian Police Raid Office Of Opposition Magazine
Spero NewsArmed policemen, including masked Special Forces officers, today raided the Moscow office of "The New Times," one of Russia's few prominent opposition-minded media outlets. They pressured th...
Driven To Distraction: Putin's Lada Stunt Backfires
Spero NewsRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ride across Siberia in a brand new Lada Kalina, designed to boost both Russia's flailing car industry and his own popularity ratings, appears to have run into a...
Price Of Bread Increases In Russia's Far East
Spero NewsPETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia -- The price of bread is rising steeply in parts of Russia's Far East, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. The price of bread in stores in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the ...
European Parliamentarian 'Shocked' By Moscow Protest
Spero Newsin Moscow on August 31, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Lithuanian Laima Andrikiene, the deputy chairwoman of the European Parliament's Human Rights subcommittee, was at Moscow's Triumph Square at t...
Georgia Slams Russia Over Cease-Fire 'Breaches'
Spero NewsGeorgia's prime minister today charged Russia with failing to live up to the EU-brokered cease-fire that ended the 2008 war between the two countries, accusing Moscow of beefing up its military forces...
Summary Box: Wheat rises on extended Russian ban
The Seattle TimesBUYERS WANTED: Wheat prices advanced Thursday after Russia extended its export ban on the grain until next year's harvest. That is nurturing hopes of more robust sales of the U.S. crop to other countr...
Two killed as Russian wildfires spark again
ABC AustraliaA new wave of wildfires swept through villages in southern Russia on Thursday, killing at least two people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials and news reports said. Fires driven by high wind...
Russia defends record on racism
BBCThe head of Russia's 2018 World Cup bid has defended the country's track record in dealing with racism in football.Alexei Sorokin denies Russian football has a problem with racist fans, despite recent...
Putin Extends Ban on Russian Grain Exports
International Herald TribuneRussia’s ban on grain exports , which was adopted last month after a severe drought and heat wave depressed the harvest, would be extended well into next year because of continued uncertainty ov...
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