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Posted on November 10, 2010 - by Venik
Global newspapers to Russia’s president – start protecting journalists
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have jointly called on Russia’s president to ensure that widespread attacks on journalists are aggressively prosecuted. Their letter to Dmitry Medvedev follows the attempted murder of newspaper reporter Oleg Kashin and the fact that there have been 19 unsolved murders of [...]
Posted on November 8, 2010 - by Venik
Russian journalist beaten unconscious outside office
Attack on Anatoly Adamchuk as he left Zhukovsky office occurred 48 hours after another reporter was beaten with iron bar Two young men beat a Russian journalist unconscious outside his office today, 48 hours after another reporter was attacked with an iron bar. In the latest incident, Anatoly Adamchuk was attacked as he left the [...]
Posted on November 8, 2010 - by Venik
Nuclear smuggling: Armenia arrests suspected supplier
Man held in 2005 over illicit weapons grade uranium arrested again following Georgian trial of two Armenians The Armenian government said today it had detained a man suspected of supplying nuclear bomb-grade uranium to two smugglers caught in Georgia earlier this year trying to sell it on the black market. The Armenian national security service [...]
Posted on November 8, 2010 - by Venik
Russian journalists – and newspaper owners – face death and intimidation
Yet another Russian reporter suffered from a potentially lethal assault at the weekend. Oleg Kashin, a reporter with the daily newspaper Kommersant, was attacked by two men near his Moscow home, leaving him with a fractured skull, a shattered jaw and a broken leg. That news broke soon after a raid by armed police on [...]
Posted on November 7, 2010 - by Venik
Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium smuggled via train inside lead-lined package High enriched uranium which could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in Georgia. At the [...]
Posted on November 7, 2010 - by Venik
Russian journalist ‘nearly killed’ in doorstep beating
Nationalist thugs suspected of brutal revenge attack on Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin outside his Moscow home A leading Russian journalist has been left with a fractured skull, a shattered jaw and a broken leg after two men beat him close to death on the doorstep of his Moscow home. Oleg Kashin, 30, a reporter with [...]
Posted on November 5, 2010 - by Venik
Alexander Lebedev’s empire suffers another blow with hotel raid in Ukraine
Exclusive: Tax officers and security service officials enter More resort in Alushta on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast Alexander Lebedev, the Russian owner of Britain’s Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers, suffered another bruising blow to his business empire today after police carried out a raid on his luxury hotel in Ukraine. Dozens of tax officers [...]
Posted on November 5, 2010 - by Venik
Georgia and Russia collide over ‘spy ring’
Moscow denounces Tbilisi’s ‘provocative’ arrest of 13 people on espionage charges as attempt to derail Nato summit Georgia and Russia were today heading towards a new crisis after Tbilisi announced it had dismantled a Moscow-run spy ring, arresting four Russians and nine Georgians. The Russian government rejected the charges, denouncing them as a “provocation” timed [...]
Posted on November 5, 2010 - by Venik
Georgia arrests 13 over ‘Russian spy ring’
• Four Russians and nine Georgians on charges of espionage• Tbilisi claims secrets passed to Russian military in 2008 war Georgia today said it had detained four Russian citizens and nine Georgians on charges of espionage in a move likely to trigger a new crisis in relations between the two countries. The interior ministry in [...]
Posted on November 4, 2010 - by Venik
Rudolf Barshai obituary
He rebuilt his career as a conductor after repression and exile While Rudolf Barshai, who has died aged 86, made his reputation in the west as a conductor – above all in the music of Dmitri Shostakovich – he had already established himself as a top-flight quartet player and a viola virtuoso in his native Russia. Had his early [...]
Posted on November 3, 2010 - by Venik
Viktor Chernomyrdin obituary
Yeltsin’s protege and the longest-serving Russian prime minister of modern times Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has died aged 72 after a lengthy illness, was the longest-serving prime minister of Russia of modern times. Until he was eclipsed by Vladimir Putin, he was in 1999 a serious candidate to succeed Boris Yeltsin as president. As prime minister (1992-98), [...]
Posted on November 3, 2010 - by Venik
Russians complain to PCC over ‘propaganda article’ in The Independent
A group of Russian politicians, business owners and trade unionists have made a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about an article in The Independent. The collective complaint, signed by 33 individuals led by a Russian historian exiled in Britain, Pavel Stroilov, concerns a piece published in September about the governor of St Petersburg, [...]
Posted on November 3, 2010 - by Venik
Alexander Lebedev accuses rival of organising police raid against his bank
Russian tycoon claims motive was to devalue his business Alexander Lebedev, the Russian owner of Britain’s Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, has claimed an armed police raid on the bank he owns was organised by a rival in order to devalue his business. Up to 30 detectives and special forces stormed the headquarters of Lebedev’s [...]
Posted on November 3, 2010 - by Venik
Viktor Chernomyrdin, titan of post-communist Russia, dies at 72
Pundits divided over legacy of factory worker who rose through the Soviet hierarchy before becoming prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, former prime minister of Russia and a titan of the country’s turbulent first decade after the fall of communism, has died at the age of 72. A big, bluff factory worker who worked his way up [...]
