Stray pets will be killed, little kids will be watching - and it's gonna be legal.
Region: Russian FederationThere is the city in the heart of Russia, in Western Siberia, is the city - Novosibirsk. Don’t think of the snow-covered village and the streets where the bears walk. Novosibirsk - one and a half metropolis, and now, June 15, there are about 30 degrees Celsius (85 degrees Fahrenheit). Bears are in the zoo; city officials seem to take their place. June 9 Deputy Head of the City Department of Energy, Housing an... more
Views: 919Robert Amsterdam: Khodorkovsky's top propagandist
Region: Russian FederationMikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, is in jail. Everybody agrees to say that his trial was far from being fair and no one knows if he’ll eventually be freed one day! Nonetheless, Khodorkovsky’s American lawyer (and PR guy) Robert Amsterdam has been building for years a biased image of Khodorkovsky. A biased image Western media widely buy… Let’s get a ... more
Views: 1828Mine Collapses a Reminder of the Impact of Coal Energy
Region: Russian Federation
By Daniel Tovrov Photographer: Peter Van den Bossche A miner in the coal-rich Chinese province of Shanxi. After a pair of explosions collapsed a coal mine in western Siberia, 66 miners and rescue workers have been declared dead while 24 remain missing and 80 survivors recover in local hospitals. According to a report by the Associated Press, the May 10th blasts have trapped the miners 500 meters (1600 fee... more
Views: 1993Medvedev the Peaceable
Region: Russian Federation
It is time to set the doomsday clock back one full generation. Historic events of that magnitude don’t come along every week, so one would think that the world’s financial markets would breathe a sigh of relief, instead we got the ‘flash crash’ and some hand ringing about a peripheral economy called Greece. Last week, Russia and the Ukraine reached an historic agreement. ... more
Views: 2044Russian Anti-Government Protest Covered By Bloggers, Ignored By Media
Region: Russian FederationAt least 7,000 protesters gathered on the streets of Kaliningrad [ENG], the country's westernmost city, on January 30 to demand, among other things, the resignation of the regional governor Georgy Boos [ENG] and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. But don't count on the leading Russian media outlets to tell you about it. The biggest and most popular TV channels keep their silence. Mainstream newspapers and radio ... more
Views: 2154Web Forum Beats Media in Covering Russian Night Club Fire
Region: Russian FederationFire at the night club “Khromaya Loshad” (Lame Horse) [RUS] in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. According to an official version, the fire was caused by fireworks inside the club. Within minutes after the tragedy, Russian Internet users turned to blogs, forums and social media sites to share information about the horrific event. An lj user starina-klin, who lives next to the night c... more
Views: 3278Russian death toll reaches 100 in Perm nightclub blast.
Region: Russian FederationRussia's police say the death toll from an explosion inside a nightclub in central Russia has topped 100. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says at least 100 people were killed and over 130 others were injured by the blast at a nightclub in the industrial city of Perm on Saturday. As per my informations, more than 200 people were attending a party at the club, which included a fireworks show. Now the office say... more
Views: 839Russia: How Passengers of “Nevsky Express” Tell Their Stories Through Social Media
Region: Russian FederationRussian authorities continue to investigate the crash of the train “Nevsky Express”[ENG] that happened between Moscow and St. Petersburg on Friday night. According to officials, the tragedy that took lives of at least 25 passengers was a terrorist attack. The crash raised a number of questions. Many people ask what happened during the first hours after the crash and why it took so long to start reporti... more
Views: 1638Should Central Asia Fear Taleban Spillover?
Region: Russian FederationUpsurge in militant activity in Central Asia will be contained, although security should be stepped up in border areas. By Sanobar Shermatova in Moscow (RCA No. 595, 06-Nov-09) In the eight years the United States-led Coalition has been in action in Afghanistan, the northern provinces have remained largely calm – until recently, that is. Taleban attacks focused on southern Afghanistan, and the overland rou... more
Views: 1553In Russia, Bloggers Report on Election Fraud
Region: Russian FederationReports of vote-rigging in the local elections, which took place in 75 of Russia’s 83 regions on Oct. 11, spurred protests by citizens and politicians in the Russian capital - and quite an outrage among some of the country's bloggers. In Moscow, the United Russia party, led by PM Vladimir Putin, took 32 of 35 seats in the city legislature; the only other party to make it to the Moscow Duma is the Communist Party... more
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