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Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:19 |
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was born 130 years ago, on the 13th of April 1883. The composer wrote the music for the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, which later became the National Anthem of the Russian Federation, in 2001. He furthermore founded the Alexandrov Ensemble, also known as Red Army Choir.... |
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:40 |
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Spy devices disguised as rocks were found on an uninhabited island near the Russian base at Tartus. Israel is keeping an eye on other military objects in Syria served by Russian experts, and may have intelligence operations in Russia. The country is selective about sharing this information with its allies.... |
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Friday, 05 April 2013 14:45 |
Published time: April 05, 2013 11:12
Edited time: April 05, 2013 14:15  Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, announced Thursday it will increase its loan portfolio for defense industry investments to 464 billion r... |
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Friday, 05 April 2013 11:33 |
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Former Dire Straits lead guitarist takes decision on Moscow and St Petersburg gigs following crackdown by the Kremlin Mark Knopfler has cancelled two concerts in Russia owing to what he called a crackdown on human rights groups. Russian prosecutors and tax officials searched the offices of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Memorial,... |
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 15:25 |
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Moscow's two main exports are natural resources and weapons. Africa has plenty of former and plenty of demand for latter At the start of April, the UN general assembly overwhelmingly approved a new arms trade treaty. The treaty had been nearly 20 years in the making and seeks to regulate the $70bn international trade in conventional arms. Despite... |
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Wednesday, 03 April 2013 16:58 |
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Anti-Putin campaigner to be tried on 17 April as tensions mount across Moscow in the wake of last year's protests A provincial Russian court has announced it will launch the trial of Alexey Navalny on 17 April, in a case widely believed to be targeted at silencing the popular opposition leader. The case against Navalny, one of the loudest critics of... |
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Monday, 01 April 2013 15:15 |
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"We should have considered the issue of the American aggression against Yugoslavia in the Security Council, and to should have created a court together with other countries. Clark and Albright should have been held criminally responsible," said Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov in an interview with Inna Novikova, chief editor of Pravda.Ru... |
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Monday, 01 April 2013 10:35 |
Published time: April 01, 2013 08:35  Brussels has been forced to eat a generous slice of humble pie: A massive sell-off of the euro is underway in the wake of a persistent financial crisis, as holdings in the European currency by emerging economies were slashed by... |
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Sunday, 31 March 2013 12:34 |
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Alexander Naumovich Mitta celebrated his 80th birthday on the 28th of March 2013. The Russian cartoonist, screenwriter and film director was born in Moscow, in 1933. He first studied engineering, graduating in 1955, then worked as a cartoonist in art and humorous magazines, for example the satirical journal "Crocodile."... |
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Saturday, 30 March 2013 21:00 |
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Alexander Perepilichnyy's friends question three-week delay in toxicology tests and say he may have been poisoned in Paris A Russian supergrass who died in mysterious circumstances outside his Surrey home may have been poisoned in Paris before travelling to England, his associates have claimed. Alexander Perepilichnyy, a wealthy businessman who... |
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