Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:10 |
Anna Reid's scholarship makes living history out of a wartime catastrophe The Nazi science of mass murder was first put to the test in occupied eastern Europe. Hitler's plan to acquire "living space" for German settlers in Russia required the elimination of entire Slav populations. This was done by gassing, shooting or by a slow death from hunger.... |
Sunday, 25 September 2011 01:04 |
This striking book shows how chance revealed the forgotten part poets and artists played in the Soviet war effort An extraordinary discovery was made in 1997 at the Art Institute of Chicago: 26 thick rolls of paper, which crumbled to the touch, were found at the back of a cupboard. After being put in a humidity chamber, where the paper was... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:20 |
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is feeling better every day. Vice President Elias Jaua announced the good news when speaking at a meeting dealing with a planned reform of the country’s penitentiary system. On Thursday Hugo Chavez returned home from Cuba where he had been undergoing another course of chemotherapy, which he said was his last.... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 23:02 |
Libyan provisional government forces have found weapons believed to be banned internationally near the southern cities of Sabha and Wadan, the head of the National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said on Saturday, Reuters reports. "There are weapons believed to be internationally forbidden, and they are under our control," Abdel Jalil ... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 22:52 |
Prime minister bids to return for two more terms as Russia's president after months of speculation Vladimir Putin is to run for president of Russia next year in a move that could keep the powerful leader at the helm of the country until 2024. Prime minister Putin and head of state Dmitry Medvedev ended months of speculation on Saturday during the... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:36 |
NATO overstepped its UN mandate in Libya, Russia’s FM Sergei Lavrov told the CNN on Saturday. “The international embargo on arms deliveries to Libya was openly violated… The country’s neighbors made no secret of the fact that they were supplying weapons [to the opposition]. France publicly admitted such deliveries and foreign commandos were also ve... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:33 |
Turkey will intercept all weapons being delivered to Syria, Reuters reports, quoting Prime Minister Recep Tayiip Erdogan. Mr. Erdogan said that Turkey had intercepted a Syrian ship in the Sea of Marmara but didn’t say where exactly and whether there were any weapons found on board. On Wednesday Erdogan said that Ankara was suspending all talks ... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:32 |
Unknown gunmen shot dead a German tourist and his Afghan companion in central Afghanistan on Saturday. Two other Afghans were wounded when the gunmen opened fire on the van the tourist was travelling in, a local police spokesman said. The men were on a road in the country’s remote Ghor province. Two German nationals were killed last month while... |
Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:22 |
Billionaire newspaper owner tells Luke Harding about his previous bouts in Russia and his opinion of David Cameron It has become a video sensation: the moment when Alexander Lebedev punched a fellow businessman live on Russian TV. Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, s... |
Friday, 23 September 2011 13:41 |
Image from mergersandinquisitions.com With the investment climate being one of the major economic issues for Russia, Business RT spoke to Robert Abdullin, president of the World Organization of Creditors, about what is being done to improve Russia’s profile and what lies ahead for it. RT: Your organization provides support for companies looking for... |
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