Ukrainian expert: New elections will result in cloning the current parliament

“New elections will give nothing and resolve nothing in the current situation,” expert atKiev Gorshenin Institute of Management Issues Kosntantin Bondarenko believes, informs a REGNUM correspondent in Kiev informs…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 17:04.

President Yushchenko sends condolences letter to President Putin on Yeltsin’s death

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko sent a condolence letter to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin regarding “death of the outstanding political figure and statesman Boris Yeltsin…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 16:04.

Turkey is trying to consolidate Jewish communities against US Congress resolution on the Armenian Genocide

Several Jews organizations in Turkey on behalf of the country’s Jewish community sent a letter to the US Congress against Resolution 106 on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire of 1915…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 15:04.

Algirdas Brazauskas: If it were not Yeltsin, Soviet troops would have not been withdrawn from Lithuania

Today, on April 23, Lithuania’s ex-President, chair of the Social Democratic Party Algirdas Brazauskas announced on air of Lietuvos Radijas, Lithuanian national radio, that Lithuania received its independence in many respects thanks to Boris Yeltsin…
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Estonian president to visit Boris Yeltsin’s funeral

Estonia’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will participate in the funeral of First Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 25. The information was confirmed today to REGNUM at the presidential administration press office…
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 15:04.

Commission to organize Yeltsin’s funeral started working

On April 24, a special governmental commission started working to organize funeral of Russia’s First President Boris Yeltsin. Earlier, it became known that head of the presidential administration Sergey Sobyanin was appointed chair of the commission…
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Expert: Russia and USA’s anti-missile systems are targeted against each other

“The plan to deploy elements of US anti-missile system has existed for half a year already, and several problems have occurred by now regarding its implementation,”..
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Estonian foreign ministry: The Russian note contains lies and slander

The Estonian foreign ministry confirmed it received the Russian protest note, but it has not decided yet whether and how to answer it. “Lamentably, the document contains deliberate lies and slander,”..
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Posted in Russian News No Comments 24.04.2007 on 14:04.

Estonian prime minister: Drunken looters are buried under the Bronze Soldier Monument

Speaking at the Estonian parliament and answering a question about the Bronze Soldier Monument in the Tonismagi Square, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said that excavations would be certainly held there and then it will become known, whether there are any burial grounds there at all, Estonian Youth newspaper reports today…
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Russian parliamentary deputy chair: “The Armenian Genocide cannot be deleted from memory of the mankind”

“The Armenian Genocide cannot be deleted from memory of the mankind,” Russia’s State Duma First Deputy Chair Oleg Morozov said on April 24, as Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Armenian Genocide, a REGNUM correspondent informs…
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