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Ivanov puts GLONASS to the test Иванов in Antarctica

Russia’s first vice-premier Sergei Ivanov attended by the minister of transport Igor Levitin and that of natural resources Yuri Trutnev landed on an ice airfield of Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica. The purpose of the Antarctic assignment of the ministers was a solution of transport problem of Russian polar explorers and test of a Russian navigation system GLONASS. According to Cnews, Sergei Ivanov was accompanied either by the general designer of the GLONASS system Yuri Urlichich.

Russia took its bullet back

Russian delegation to Belgrade had to give commentaries on scandalous statement of a presenter of a state TV-channel ‘Rossia’ Konstantin Semin, who had approved during a live broadcast a murder of Serbian’s premier minister Zoran Djindjic. The management of the channel hasn’t apologized to Serbia yet. Russian officials persuaded Boris Tadic, that Semin’s statement didn’t reflect Russia’s position. Career future of an eloquent journalist is still unknown.

To put out a flame of science

Complicated situation with the European University in St. Petersburg drew a wide response both in the media and the blogosphere. Great number of reports, from simple news with quotations of press-releases of the University administration to primitive analytics with attempts to find out deep causes of what had happened and to paragon, appeared in the press. The case becomes even more confused, as the administration of EUSP hardly contacts with the press.

New intermediaries for Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine gas war is over. Vladimir Putin and Victor Yushchenko reached gas debt deal during the meeting in the Kremlin. New scheme of supplies and agreement on prices is quite favorable for Ukraine.

European University in St. Petersburg was considered to be fire-hazardous

The work of the university, which prepared election observers, was suspended.

Gas perfume

In Arbat Prestige it smells like Gazprom. In the very centre of Moscow an owner of a large cosmetics retail network Arbat Prestige Vladimir Nekrasov and a consultant of a firm called Evergate Ltd. Sergei Shnaider were detained on suspicion in tax evasion.

British Council is accused of colonization of Russia

Russia continues putting pressure upon the British Council in spite of statements of official figures, which argues that this scandal that has been lasting since the end of the previous year, has no attitude to the policy. The ambassador of the Great Britain Sir Anthony Brenton received the note of protest concerning the activity of the Council in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg; after that the Russian side made series of rather harsh steps and statements.

Noga is on the offensive against Kremlin

The deposits of the Central Bank were frozen in France in response to a suit by the Swiss Noga Co. that has long-standing financial complaints against Russia.

The black till of the Kremlin hit back

A journalist of The New Times magazine wasn't let into Russia because of her article on Kremlin's financial activity during the parliamentariam campaign

Bear Surprise

Vladimir Putin supported the candidacy of the first vice-premier Dmitry Medvedev as a candidate to succeed him in presidential elections scheduled for March 2. This became known at a meeting with leaders of four pro-Kremlin parties, i.e. United Russia, Just Russia, Civil Force and the Agricultural Party. These parties backed Medvedev as a presidential candidate.

A successful successor

Dmitry Medvedev was announced to be the successor to the president Putin. It can hardly be said that it is a surprise: experts, which have commented the decision said that the figure of a ‘compromise liberal’ could suit both rights and lefts in the country, the East and the business society. But first of all it suits Putin whose image has been pretty spoilt by United Russia.

Putin lost the elections

Some analysts consider the past election to be unsuccessful for the president. Kremlin positioned the elections as a referendum on the confidence in Putin as a national leader. But this time the United Russia party supported by Putin garnered much less than 71%, which Putin got in 2004.

Riot police in St. Petersburg broke Gozman’s arm and promised to vote for the Union of Right Forces

During the March of dissenters in St. Petersburg on November 25th Boris Nemtsov, Nikita Belykh and Leonid Gozman were detained. While arresting the leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) on the Dvortsovaya Square policemen has broken Goizman an arm. In the result Goizman has his arm plastered, and Nemtsov and Belykh who are not injured, hold in Moscow a press conference and imparted details of the detainment to journalists.

History online. 16-22 November, 2007

Not quite enough

In November automakers, dockers in Tuapse and St. Petersburg went on strikes; railroad men also plan for a strike. Workers of different areas demand advance of wages; they claim that they are paid not enough.

Three roles of the Kremlin's power broker

Vedomosti daily retold the speech of Vladislav Yu. Surkov, the deputy chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, aide to the President. The official addressed the assembly of the Stolypin’s Club “Right Idea and Business”. He noticed that terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ concern the industrial society of the XIX century and that they can’t be applied to own times.

Putin chooses the lesser of all evils

The Russian president Vladimir Putin told road transport workers in Krasnoyarsk that he had decided to head the United Russia’s ticket just lacking something better. Going by what he said, the United Russia was far from being ideal, since the ‘ruling party’ had no principles, and ideology and many impostors had intruded in it. “But we have nothing better”, the president said.

Putin is chained to the helm

On 15 November a constitutive assembly of an All-Russian public movement “For Putin” will be held. It is expected that members of the “United Russia” party will participate only in Moscow forum of the movement, which is to become the key event of the pre-election campaign of the party. Although members of the party even don’t dissemble that the movement is designed to unite people who like Putin but don’t like the “United Russia”. One way or another all Russian people are anxious to see Putin at the helm.

Memorial conquered a juridical lawlessness

Recently the International historical and enlightened, charitable and human rights society Memorial won a case against the Federal Registration Service (FRS). Human rights advocates hope that they have managed to created a precedent and to overcome the general tendency.

The pre-election purge turned into an ethnic one

A new turn in the case of the Saratov State University, about which polit.ru has ready written. The persecution of disagreeable continues, but methods have changed.

100 jokes about Putin

The FSB of the Novosibirsk area considered jokes about Vladimir Putin which had been published in a communistic newspaper “For the people rule!” to be an illegal agitation. It should be remarked that this is not first complaints against the KPRF concerning jokes about Putin. What are jokes about the president about and are they illegal indeed?

On behalf of the whole cult society

Far from all Russian cultural workers support a famous director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov and a sculptor Zurab Tsereteli who want Vladimir Putin to run for a third presidential term. But the opinion of cultural and art workers is opposed to that of common people. Most Russians want Putin to remain on his post for a third term and demonstrate it by all possible means.

Deep frozen prices

The first-rate Russian diary producers and trading networks decided to freeze prices on socially significant produces and signed a corresponding agreement.

GAK vs. NAK

Vladimir Putin has interfered in the “war of the siloviki” and has changed the alignment of forces among the antagonistic groups. The chief of the the FSKN [Federal service for control of narcotics] will head a new State Antinarcotics Committee [GAK] which has been established by Pitin’s decree. The new Committee is to become a very serious structure; its organization will be similar to that of the National Antiterrorist Committee [NAK] of Nikolai Patrushev, the main enemy of Cherkesov’s agency.

Secret Agencies War. Vladimir Putin considers the behavior of Cherkesov “incorrect”

Vladimir Putin considers that it is “incorrect” to bring up problems of special services in mass media. The president declared that to a reported of the Kommersant daily Andrew Kolesnikov while commenting on the article of Victor Cherkesov, where the head of the Federal Drug Control Service claimed that a war between different groups of special services had broken out.

Russia’s rebrending

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia is anxious for the image of the country abroad. It intends to improve the investment image of Russia everyway and to promote national and regional Russian brands abroad.

Putin’s KGB colleagues unleashed war for the authority and resources

Criminal proceedings initiated against officials of the Federal Narcotics Control Service (FNCS) picks up steam. The case is said to be the result of the infighting between siloviks closely tied to Putin: the chief of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev and the head of the Federal Narcotics Control Service Victor Cherkesov.

Fradkov went on a recco

During the summit in Tajik capital, Dushanbe, Vladimir Putin said to journalists: “As for person who will take up a post of the Director of Foreign Intelligence Service, you know him very well, it is Mikhail E. Fardkov”

The pre-election purge goes on

The persecution of those, who are who not consent, in the Saratov State University continued. This time the victim is a researcher of Petrarka, the author of over that one hundred scientific works, professor Nina I. Devyataikina.

Message from Mikhail

After a long silence jailed Mikhail Khodorkovsky decided to address to Russian liberals in his letter to participants of the conference “Russian alternatives” that had place in Moscow in July 10. The text entitled "Morality and Justice" is available on the website of the All-Russian Civil Congress.

Pre-election purge

The situation in the Saratov State University aggravated again. Poilt.ru has already written on this case: the dean of the Faculty of History was dismissed because of his aversion to the “United Russia” party’s policy; historians of Saratov threaten the head of the university with impeachment.

Putin «number one»

Vladimir Putin became a person number one for the United Russia. He promised to head the party in the upcoming elections.

Sochi 2014. Today and tomorrow

Triumphal reports on record investments in the Olympic Committee that sounded during the investment forum in the City of Sochi are confirmed only by several contracts, new membership of the Presidential Council on the Olympics and by an outrageous law that permits dispossessing of private houses, demolishing them and even forced people resettlement. Sochi citizens are disturbed. They worry for ecology, their common way of living and their private property.

Ukraine: some days before

Андрей Левкин
Several days remain before the elections in Ukraine, but nothing special can be said. Certainly, one can estimate chances of one or another candidate, but no more. There are no changes; the present coalition and other have even chances, things will become more definite during the very process. It is quite clear that the result won’t become the end. When votes are summed up, one will begin forming the coalition, changing the Constitution, etc. One can’t say about any stability, and in the near future the situation won’t change.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation: yesterday, today and tomorrow. On the threshold of elections

The left of our political spectrum becomes even stranger. Traditional criticism of the “anti-national” regime now is accompanied by appeals to provide economic policy line that is provided by the regime anyway. But real activities of workers meet almost no response in this party. KPRF is now occupied with struggle with all kinds of oppositions and deviations, the main enemy is “Fair Russia” which suggests KPRF to unite; the main battle-front is struggle against orange revolution that frightens KPRF much. Separated sentences and actions of the Communist Party members point mostly to a very strange ideological cocktail in their heads. In order to understand all that we have had a talk with one of the leaders of the left front Ilya Ponomarev.

What has happened? 33 versions

Сергей Мартынов
It seems that nobody understood why Vladimir Putin had replaced Mikhail Fradkov by Victor Zubkov, a financial scout, 66, who is undoubtedly an influent person but he has never been active in public life. The resignation of the government was expected, but at the same time it seemed, that the post of the premier minister would be taken up by some well-known person who lately would become Putin’s successor (all expected Sergei Ivanov). But things did not become clearer. This sudden decision has upset all plans and made useless all analytic forecasts concerning Ivanov, Medvedev and other well-known candidates. In place of that experts and analytics together with mass media had to create explanations and versions of what had happened and what would happen then. There are also several official explanations.

Zubkov instead of Fradkov

Сергей Мартынов
The Premier Minister Mikhail Fradkov has requested Vladimir Putin to dismiss government. He explained that soon there would be important political events in the country and he wanted to give the president free rein to act.

The General Prosecutor’s Office is searching for the source of the information leak

The General Prosecutor’s Office is searching for people who have revealed the investigation secret and provided the names of 11 suspected in participation in the murder of a journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The named were published in “Tvoi den” redtop. Chief editor of “Novaya Gazeta” Sergei Sokolov on Sunday evening said in a broadcast of Radio Echo of Moscow, that the information leak had shocked the General Prosecution. “It is just a betrayal”, he claimed.”

Anti-teachers terror

In the Ingushetia Republic a family of a Russian teacher, already the second in the last two months was shot to death. The murder took place in the Karabulak village in the early hours of Friday. A group of unknown people broke into the house 55 Lenin street, where the family of Vera Draganchuk lived and shot from machine-guns her husband and two sons of 20 and 24 years old. The husband and one of the sons, who was an invalid of the first category, died immediately. Another son, a student, was taken to a hospital where he lately died.

A conscript killed on the Cosmodrome

Anatoly Serdyukov, Minister of Defence of Russia promised to punish harshly generals and officers of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome after in a military hospital a conscript Sergei Sinkonen beaten by his commanders had died. The Minister of Defence is going to crack down on generals and officers guilty of negligence, right up to their discharge.

Religious practices of Russians

According to results of the poll conducted by the Yury Levada Analytic Centre, most of Russians (56% of respondents) consider themselves to be Orthodox. 3% profess Islam, less then 1% - Catholicism, Protestantism or Judaism. 33% of respondents don't consider themselves to be believing persons. At the same time most Orthodox Russians confess of not attending church services (69%), of not receiving Holy Communion (83%) and even of not being christened (76%).

Accident with the "Nevsky express" train. A suspected is portrayed by eye-witnesses

Special services elaborated an identikit of a person suspected of implication in the terrorist act on the October Railway. The investigation found out that locals had seen a man getting over the enclosure and walking along the railings. From words of tree locals the police managed to compose an e-fit.

A terrorist act - “Nevsky Express” train was to fall from bridge

Сергей Мартынов
A train Moscow-St. Petersburg is derailed. One of the rapidest and most modern expresses between the two capitals was exploded on its way to St. Petersburg near the city of Novgorod. Nobody perished, but tens of people got injured. The train was planned to fell from a bridge to a river, but by a miracle it did not happen. The transportation department of the Northwestern Federal District General Prosecutor's Office has confirmed that the explosion should be considered as an act of terror and has opened a corresponding criminal case.

Get out of here!

Series of passed and expected dismissals of governors point at Kremlin’s intension to purge ranks of regional officials. It doesn’t concern at the moment real prominent figures, since it is necessary to draw high turnout. Every dismissal is preceded with its specific history though. We counted four main reasons of governors’ discharges.

Gazprom can wait

The second gas conflict between Russia and Belarus is to be over. Belarus has already transferred the first part of the money for gas and received a weekly respite for paying off the amount. But Gazprom is likely to keep on pressing on Lukashenko in order to get in Belarus assets that it is interested in. such policy prejudices possibility of peaceful integration within the post-Soviet area. Belarus transferred this morning to Gazprom $190 mln. Earlier it was reported that Belarus would use its reserve to pay off the debt.

To fish or not to fish

Russia put moratorium on catch of sturgeons. The reason of the implementation of the full ban against the production of black caviar is a disastrous amount of poaching If the process of sturgeon depopulation is not stopped, already in three years this species of fish may totally disappear in the Caspian Sea.

A partner of Abramovich turned out to be an accessory of Berezovsky

Russian General Prosecutor’s Office yesterday unveiled new charges against fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky, accusing him of embezzling $13 million (BD5m) from the SBS-Agro Bank in 1997. Eugene Shvidler, the business partner and close friend of oligarch Roman Abramovich, figures in the case.

Catch me up if you can

On 27 June 2007, the Kingdom of Tonga became the 151st and newest member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Russia falls behind. Although it seems that bilateral negotiations are drawing to a close, Russia is still to held difficult and long multilateral talks. If Ukraine does not break into the conversation.

Not Blue Stream

Иван Гринько
Italy, Turkey and Greece made a contract about new alternative gas pipeline from the Caspian region to Europe. Thus a rapid realization of TGI project becomes real. What does it mean for Russia, that was named by Vladimir Putin a guarantor of the European energy security? Is not is a high time for thinking of the Blue Stream-2 seriously?

Echo of Sakhalin

Moscow has asked the British Embassy's top trade and investment official to leave the country. The senior embassy official responsible for negotiations over Sakhalin-2 project is one of the four British Embassy officials being expelled. The diplomatic conflict seems to be not quite diplomatic. The question is, if activities of Moscow are just rhetoric, situational response to actions of London or a policy that can determine political and economic relationship between two countries for the next few years.

The end of the Wild Wild East

Иван Гринько
In Vladivostok a vice-governor Alexander Shishkin was detained on Wednesday while taking a bribe of 1.2 million rubles. In the opinion of the prosecution, jointly with officials of the regional municipal water supply service Primorsky Vodokanal he introduced overestimated demands in the technical documents in order to extort money from builders.

Putin is to overcome Russia, Britain mini-crisis

Сергей Мартынов
The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin reckons that the current conflict between Russia and the Great Britain is a “mini-crisis” that can be easily overcome. Whether the diplomatic row amounts to business conflict? Opinion of analysts.

Russian Foreign Ministry did not pass American censorship

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has withdrawn an article he wrote for the U.S. journal "Foreign Affairs," accusing the editors of changing his text. It appears Lavrov's article was meant to be a response to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who wrote a piece -- published in May -- entitled "Containing Russia."

Putin tries to shoot down Berezovsky. The tycoon prefers other arguments

Against a background of a diplomatic war that has begun between Moscow and London, the Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has made new sensational announcements. He claims that the Secret Intelligence Services have detained a peson plotting to kill him. Besides that he announced that he was ready to face trial in any neutral country, but only together with Andrei Lugovoi.

The British Empire strikes back

London announced about expulsion of 4 Russian diplomats and introducing of visa restrictions for Russian officials. The RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs named that "provocative" and "immoral" and promised "most serious consequences". The diplomatic war, that had been so long expected, began. Although London affirms, that it would like to see Russia as a key international partner, its current actions meet only irritation in Moscow. Lavrov tries to prove, that there are no animals that "are more equal than others".

Putin is to use conventional weapons

Russia announced that it suspended its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Europe expressed "grave concern, disappointment and regret". There are still 150 days to decide, if it is really a step in wrong direction or possibility to ratify the updated version of the pact.

Berezovsky is responsible for Brazilian football

The Brazilian Federal Court issued an arrest warrant for exiled Russian tycoon and several leaders of a Sao Paulo football club Corinthians. They are accused of forming a criminal group and money laundering.

The case of Lugovoi turned into diplomatic war

London is extremely disappointed with Russia's refusal to hand over Andrei Lugovoi - whom British justice authorities consider to be the chief suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko last November. The criminal case is officially transported on political level. The British Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined the verbal wrangle between the Moscow and the London. In response of Russia’s unavailability to collaboration the Great Britain can reduce relations with the Moscow in different fields. The next week the chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will introduce in the Parliament a report on possible variants of the further activities. According to the Times, the Britain can cease co-operation with Russia on several fronts, including education, social affairs, trade and counter-terrorism information.

Alexei Miller's French kiss

Gazprom chose French Total as Shtockman partner. Total receives 25 percent stake in an operating company that will plan, finance and build the first stage of the project of development of a key source of energy for the whole Europe. Gazprom keeps the controlling stake and remains the only holder of actual license to the field. Thus the Russia's state gas monopoly is keeping on its European expansion, started with South Straem, North Stream, Sakhalin-2 and Kovykta.

Pasat is set free

An appeals court freed Moldova's former defense minister Valeriu Pasat, who had been recently sentenced to ten years imprisonment. He was pronounced not guilty in the first count of the accusation. After that his stretch decreased for five years and he was amnestied.

Moscow and London exchanged extradition refusals

The Moscow officially refused extradition of Alexander Litvinenko, the London prepares a proper response.

Olympic rings in Sochi

Иван Гринько
The 22nd Olympic Winter Games in 2014 are awarded to the city of Sochi. What does it mean? Some reflections about the Olympics in Sochi.

Even more spies

A Russian national recruited by MI6 collaborates with the Russian Federal Security Service.

Putin and Bush will get a sense of lobsters' soul

1-2 July, the RF President Vladimir Putin is to discuss Russian-American problems with George Bush in an informal atmosphere in Bush’s father vacation house in Kennebunkport, Maine on the Atlantic coast. The main issues of the negotiations are establishment of the US system of antimissile defence in Central Europe, the status of the Serbian province Kosovo, situation with human rights and democracy in Russia.

Russia is to replace "Satan"

Russia has answered the US plans to settle in Poland and Czech antimissile defence system. First reported test of the new RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRV) was conducted at Plesetsk.
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