December 29 morning preview
MOSCOW
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 05:23 GMT
Morning re-cap of main news, December 28
* Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized unfair competition on global arms markets
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 05:23 GMT
Fire at psychiatric hospital kills 7, injures 12
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – A fire in a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow Region has killed seven people and injured 12, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday. According to the ministry, the fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning at the hospital in the Shatura district, southeast of Moscow.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 05:46 GMT
Russian rocket blasts off with U.S. satellite
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian rocket carrying an American communications satellite blasted off from the Baiknour space center in Kazakhstan early Thursday morning, the Russian Space Agency said.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 06:27 GMT
Kazakh president signs decree on fight against corruption
ASTANA, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a decree on adopting a 2006–2010 state program on combating corruption.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:06 GMT
Prosecutors investigate arson in fatal hospital blaze
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – Prosecutors in the Moscow Region have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a psychiatric hospital that killed seven and left 12 injured Thursday morning, the local prosecutor's office said.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:11 GMT
Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute Remains Unsolved as Threatened Deadline Nears
The energy ministers of Ukraine and Russia have failed to resolve a politically charged dispute over Russia's plans to raise the price of natural gas exports to Ukraine. Moscow argues that Kiev should pay more than four times current prices, in line with world tariffs.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:39 GMT
Digest of the Russian press, December 29
(RIA Novosti does not bear any responsibility for the articles published in the Russian papers)
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:45 GMT
U.S. Judge Rules Accused Nazi War Criminal Can Be Deported to Ukraine
John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker once thought to be the sadistic Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," could be deported back to his native Ukraine, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday. Demjanjuk, 85, has denied all charges against him.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:48 GMT
URGENT: Gazprom to buy 30 bln cu m of gas from Turkmenistan in 2006
MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti)-Russian energy giant Gazprom will buy 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas at $65 per 1,000 cu m from Turkmenistan in 2006, the company said Thursday.
// Dec. 29, 2005 - 07:52 GMT