Ukrainian Supreme Rada chair will ask for help from Lithuania’s president in crisis settlement

Ukraine’s Supreme Rada Speaker Alexander Moroz told reporters today he intends to turn for help to Lithuanian’s President Valdas Adamkus, who, as Moroz believes, can take part as mediator in the settlement of the political conflict in Ukraine…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 26.04.2007 on 14:04.

Silent March to commemorate victims of Armenian Genocide: Photo report from Warsaw

Armenians in the whole world commemorated those killed in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 yesterday, on Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide…
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Putin’s annual address: Access to Russia’s natural resources for foreigners must be closed

Russian President Vladimir Putin touched upon the question of effective use of natural resources in his annual address to the parliament. The government must increase the number of measures aimed at improving qualitative processing of the extracted resources…
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Estonian police: Woman hurt while encountering with police was given medical assistance

Traffic has been restored near the Bronze Soldier Monument in Tonismagi Square, Tallinn, Estonia, and there are no restrictions on traffic now, Pohja Police Prefecture told REGNUM today…
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Activists to protect Bronze Soldier Monument denied medical assistance after encountering with police

Today, at about 04:30 a.m., officers of Estonian special police forces detained a group of activists protecting the Bronze Soldier Monument in Tonismagi Square, Tallinn…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 26.04.2007 on 12:04.

Putin: Money from sale of Yukos assets must be sent for communal reform

Most part of the money from sale of Yukos assets and other tax collections must be sent for implementation of the communal reform, said Russian President Vladimir Putin today at his annual address to the parliament…
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Lech Walesa: Boris Yeltsin has invaluable merit to the whole world

Russia’s First President Boris Yeltsin has invaluable merit to the whole world, Poland’s ex-President Lech Walesa said. According to the Polish ex-leader, it was Yeltsin, not Gorbachev, who was the driving force that ultimately led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 17:04.

First Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies: Biography

Russia’s First President Boris Yeltsin, 76, died today, informs the Kremlin press office. Boris Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in a family of peasants in the Village of Butka, Sverdlovsk Region…
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Mikhail Gorbachev presents condolences to Boris Yeltsin’s family

USSR First President Mikhail Gorbachev presented his condolences to Russia’s First President Boris Yeltsin’s widow. The text was published ion the Gorbachev foundation website…
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Kyrgyz authorities deny that arrests of oppositionists are politically based

The government has not start any oppressions against opposition politicians. Actions of police officers were caused only by a necessity to find out who is in charge for the disorders in Bishkek on April 19, Kyrgyz State Secretary Adakhan Madumarov said at a news conference today, reports a REGNUM correspondent…
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