Russia to resume test launches of troubled Bulava missile Sept. 9-12
Test launches of Russia's Bulava ballistic missile will resume between September 9 and 12, a defense industry source said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 08:43 GMT
Was the U.S. military operation in Iraq a success?
U.S. President Barack Obama is making good on his promise: Washington is currently on track to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. In what state will the United States leave Iraq? Dr. Alexander Shumilin (Ph.D. in History) heads the Center for Middle East Conflict Analysis at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. In an interview with Samir Shakhbaz, he speaks about the consequences of the more than seven-year presence of American troops in Iraq.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 08:30 GMT
Japan’s capitulation brought an end to Second World War
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, marking the end of World War II.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 08:07 GMT
Russian consumer price inflation to hit 6-7 pct in 2010
Russian food price inflation will amount to 6–7 percent in 2010, but annual inflation will be the lowest in the last 20 years, the Kremlin's senior economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 07:49 GMT
Government investigating dairy producer's prices in Siberia
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service has opened an investigation into a Siberian subsidiary of Russia's top dairy producer Wimm-Bill-Dann, after the firm raised its wholesale prices by 11–17.9 percent while its production costs grew by just 4.5 percent.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 07:49 GMT
Russian Navy headquarters to stay in Moscow
The headquarters of the Russian Navy will not be transferred from Moscow to St. Petersburg, a high-ranking Defense Ministry official told RIA Novosti on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 07:02 GMT
Medvedev, Putin's approval ratings go up after wildfires - polls
The Russian president and prime minister's approval ratings have risen in the aftermath of wildfires that ravaged a large part of European Russia this summer, business daily Vedomosti said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:57 GMT
Putin’s Lada Kalina put on display in Moscow
The Lada Kalina Sport that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used to drive down the Amur Highway was put on display at the AvtoVAZ section of the Moscow International Motor Show on September 1. The prime minister drove the yellow supermini from Khabarovsk to Chita during his trip to the countryâ™s Far East. </p>
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:57 GMT
Russian Health Ministry puts $66,000 price tag on life
Proposed health legislation on a mandatory liability insurance program would see healthcare providers in Russia pay out $66,000 for deaths caused by negligence, a business daily said on Friday.
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:45 GMT
Russia's Fires May Have Strengthened Putin
Political analysts say Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev handled the wildfire emergency poorly. Timberland, villages, and a naval base were destroyed as officials in Moscow initially failed to act and their local subordinates were reluctant to take charge, says Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. “All decisions are made and all commands are issued at the top, so everyone was waiting for orders from the Prime Minister.”
// Sep. 03, 2010 - 06:24 GMT