Russian activists erected barricades to prevent loggers from cutting down a forest in the Moscow suburb Khimki on July 19. AP photo   |
Russian police detained about 15 environmentalists as they were trying to stop the cutting of trees in the disputed Khimki forest outside Moscow, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Comment 2010-07-29
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It is an effort to re-conceptualize the region in which we live and work in a way that moves beyond familiar labels that obscure as much as they illuminate. The "Middle East," the "Balkans," "Southeast Europe" or "
We hope thinking about our region in terms of its natural contours, the ancient river basins, aids our understanding of the many transcendent challenges that define our age.
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The average bribe has nearly doubled from 23,000 rubles ($760) last year to 40,000 rubles ($1,320) in the first six months of 2010, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
1 Comment 2010-07-28
Ukraine may sell ruble debt for the first time as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s government builds ties with former Soviet states and promotes its currency as a regional alternative to the dollar.
Comment 2010-07-26
Prime Minister Vladimiar Putin has revealed that he met and even sang patriotic Soviet songs with a group of Russian spies recently deported from the United States.
1 Comment 2010-07-25
Finland will back Russia's bid to scrap the visa regime with the European Union, Finnish President Tarja Halonen said on Wednesday.
Comment 2010-07-21
The Russian National Association of Bookmakers wants to purchase Paul, the psychic octopus who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting FIFA World Cup outcomes, for 100,000 euros.
Comment 2010-07-21
An environmental rights group and local residents unite in the fight to save a forest near Moscow from an $8 billion highway, which they fear will have devastating effects on the environment.
Comment 2010-07-19
Moscow Consumer Rights Protection Society filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the capital's subway system because the temperature exceeds sanitary standards at underground stations and in the passenger cars.
Comment 2010-07-21
A Russian diplomat's appointment as the U.N.'s top man in the fight against drugs and crime has been opposed by influential nongovernmental organizations over Moscow's record on human rights, a Russian paper said Monday.
Comment 2010-07-19
People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare - an honest politician.
Comment 2010-07-26
Estonia’s government wants to boost public support for the euro, which remains below 50 percent, as the Baltic nation prepares to adopt Europe’s single currency in less than six months.
Comment 2010-07-26
A new code of ethics and professional conduct for workers in the Russian state service was approved on Thursday and could come into force in the fall.
Comment 2010-07-22
The workers at Yuniy Kommunar coal mine in Ukraine, which suffered an underground nuclear accident in 1979, are set to go on strike for three months, the miners' trade union said on Thursday.
Comment 2010-07-22
Militants storm a hydroelectric plant in Russia's volatile Caucasus region in a brazen dawn attack, killing two and setting the facility ablaze with a string of blasts, officials say.
Comment 2010-07-21
French police detained three Chechens after receiving a tip from Russian law enforcement agencies that they might be plotting bombings in the Moscow metro.
Comment 2010-07-19
Russia's oil-rich Bashkortostan voted into office the central region's new leader on Monday, shutting the door on the 17-year rule of an outspoken veteran of the Yeltsin era.
Comment 2010-07-19
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said he expects to see the positive changes that have occurred in Ukraine with his own eyes during his forthcoming visit to Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported citing Interfax Ukraine.
Comment 2010-07-19
