How would you feel if you could see a cemetery of your enemies from your window? The people of Subbotino and Turitsyno, neighboring villages about 60 kilometers northwest of Moscow, have been living for decades next to a large common grave of hundreds of Germans killed in the battle for Moscow in the winter of 1941.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 03:56 GMT
* Election authorities said ruling party United Russia had scored a landslide victory in two local elections Sunday
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 05:32 GMT
MOSCOW, December 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's first 24-hour English-language news channel, Russia Today, returned to the airwaves Tuesday following a day spent off air after hackers attacked its computer network.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 06:10 GMT
I am puzzled by constat references to Belarus as a 'dictatorship' or even 'the last dictatorship of Europe'. Those of us old enough to remember will recall that there were real military dictatorships inside NATO. In Greece, more than 20 students were shot dead during an anti-government demo in 1973. NATO said and did nothing. Portugal was a military dictatorship and in Turkey there was a military coup in 1980 followed by a brutal crackdown. 75,000 were imprisoned.In General Franco's Spain even the mildest critics would face immediate imprisonment.Spain was not in NATO but the US was cozying up to Franco who offered military bases in gratitude to US support.The hypocrisy that surrounds Belarus is truly breathtaking.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 06:33 GMT
KUALA LUMPUR, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin arrived in Malaysia Tuesday for a historic regional summit, where he will discuss a number of issues ranging from space to trade.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 06:37 GMT
PETROPAVLOSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 13 (RIA Novosti)-Two people have been killed in Russia's Far East after an explosion at a scrap metal plant, a local official said Tuesday.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 07:10 GMT
XIANGANG (HONG KONG), December 13 (RIA Novosti, Mark Zavadsky) – Russia is not going to join plurilateral WTO committees before becoming a member of the World Trade Organization, a Russian official said Tuesday.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 07:33 GMT
PETROPAVLOSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 13 (RIA Novosti)- Two officers responsible for the transportation and destruction of decommissioned armaments in the Pacific Ocean city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky have been detained in connection with a blast at a scrap metal plant that left two people dead, the military prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 08:04 GMT
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Belgium and a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom are considering a move that mixes economic cooperation with the spirit of cultural exchanges.
// Dec. 13, 2005 - 08:05 GMT