| 03/06/2018 11:25 | Campbell's view: Disasters, but no deaths ( The Daily News of Newburyport )
15 that a firm linked to the KGB is to guard the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. An earlier attempt to build an embassy in Moscow was scrubbed totally because listening devices were discovered in all the prefab concrete created in Russia by ... |
| 03/05/2018 21:25 | 'Witch' is jailed for 12 years for helping Russian ex-cop murder six people they intended to raise as ... ( Daily Mail )
Russian judicial authorities named the so-called sorceress as Tatyana Solovyeva but gave no further details. The woman, who is described simply as 'young', was convicted in a trial in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a town near Yekaterinburg, without media coverage even though she had earlier escaped from ... |
| 03/02/2018 21:25 | While Putin brags about new nuclear weapons, his Deputy Prime Minister admits near-disaster ... ( The Independent Barents Observer )
âNobody has anything like this,â Putin said simultaneously as a video animation was displayed on big screens, showing how both Russia's new ballistic- and cruise missiles can't be intercepted. Putin's nuclear war-drumming were applauded by the audience in Moscow consisting of the country's ... |
| 03/02/2018 03:00 | Exclusive: Russian mercenaries in Syria, Putin's secret army ( FRANCE 24 )
Moscow is trying to cover up the real death toll from this incident and the role of the private military contractor Wagner, which sends mercenaries to Syria. Our Russia correspondent Elena Volochine travelled to the Svedlorsk region, in Siberia, where she met families in mourning. She also investigated ... |
| 03/01/2018 16:55 | Police searched Swiss pharmaceutical concern Roche ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The police found a USB flash drive at one of the former employees of the pharmaceutical company; there was a file with information about payments to doctors recorded at the expense of ROSH-Moscow CJSC (a legal entity of Roche in Russia), the protocol of examination of seized items says. The file ... |
| 02/28/2018 22:55 | Belarusian sentenced to community service for attempted arson at Yeltsin monument ( RAPSI )
MOSCOW, February 28 (RAPSI) â A judge in Russia's Yekaterinburg has sentenced Belarusian national Igor Shchuka to one year of community service for an attempt to set a monument honoring the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin on fire, the court's press-service has told RAPSI. The defendant was ... |
| 02/28/2018 09:30 | In 2011, a Russian Submarine Fire Nearly Caused a Nuclear Disaster ( Popular Mechanics )
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has admitted that a December 2011 incident involving a nuclear missile submarine almost became one of the worst nuclear weapons disasters ever recorded. The Ekaterinburg, a ballistic missile submarine, caught fire in drydock, threatening its load of ... |
| 02/28/2018 05:06 | Russian official's offhand remark about nuclear submarine fire ignites fresh speculation and new ... ( Bellona )
A Russian official has admitted there were missiles aboard the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine when it was ravaged by fire during repair work at a shipyard near Murmansk in late 2011, reviving a six year old mystery about what specific dangers faced the Russian public when the accident occurred. |
| 02/27/2018 07:00 | Ural police making overtures to thief in law Gia Sverdlovsky? ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
Yekaterinburg conducted a special operation to detain a gang of scammers with insurance. The leader of the group is policeman Alexander Fedotov, who is known as shot caller Sandro. As reported by URA.RU, he is the part of Sverdlovsk thief common fund keeper Vladimir Solomennikov, known as ... |
| 02/27/2018 07:00 | Exclusive - Syria: Putin and Allies Seek Back to the Future Solution ( Asharq Al-awsat English )
It is only now that the Defense Ministry in Moscow implicitly admits last December's âterrorist attack' that shook the Russian base in Hmeimim that destroyed 20 per cent of the warplanes stationed there and claimed the lives of at least 9 Russian military personnel. The message is clear: a base that can be ... |
| 02/26/2018 09:35 | Rallies In Russian Cities Commemorate Nemtsov ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
... held across Russia on February 25 to commemorate slain Kremlin critic and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov ahead of the third anniversary of his murder. In Tomsk, people laid flowers to Nemtsov's photo displayed at a local memorial "to the victims of the Bolshevik terror." In Yekaterinburg ... |
| 02/26/2018 01:45 | Russians Rally For Slain Kremlin Critic Nemtsov ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Thousands marched in central Moscow in a demonstration featuring placards with slogans such as "Democracy is the right to kick out authorities" and "I'm against the annexation of Crimea," a reference to Russia's 2014 seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea. One group of protesters carried ... |
| 02/23/2018 04:40 | Trolling The Patriarchy With Photos Of Battered Women - One Woman's Quest To Change Russia's ... ( ELLE UK )
MOSCOW - For Russian women's rights activist Alena Popova, battling the patriarchy is a full-time job. The 35-year-old has become a regular fixture both in and outside of the national parliament in Moscow, where she lobbies lawmakers to take a stand against the country's endemic domestic violence ... |
| 02/16/2018 00:30 | MP admits his guilt to stealing $130.200 ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
After that, 7.5 million rubles were transferred to the account of Altair in Yekaterinburg. Allegedly, the purchased spare parts were put onto company's books, however, in fact, there were no supplies. After that, in Yekaterinburg, the son of Ismailov received money from representatives of Altair LLC, net of ... |
| 02/15/2018 18:30 | Russian Court Says Foster Mother Unfit Because of 'Male Behavior' ( Human Rights Watch )
In its ruling, the court, located in the Ural region city of Yekaterinburg, said Savinovskikh's home was safe and comfortable for the children and that neighbors spoke positively of the family. It ignored this evidence, however, and confirmed the decision to remove the children, who are now living in an ... |
| 02/14/2018 20:25 | Court rules that woman without breasts becomes man ( Pravda )
In Yekaterinburg, a woman, who removed her breasts, was deprived of her children on the basis of a court decision. ... As long as same-sex marriage in Russia is prohibited, the court ruled that she no longer had parental rights for her children, because marriage in Russia is a union between a man and ... |
| 02/14/2018 18:20 | US-led forces 'kill dozens of Russians' in Syria air strikes ( The Independent )
Russian media have already reached the widow of one of the soldiers identified in CIT's research. In an interview published in Znak.ru, a news portal based in Russia's third city of Yekaterinburg, Yelena Matveyeva confirmed the death of her husband Stanislav Matveyev, 38. She told journalists said his ... |
| 02/14/2018 14:35 | Russian courtroom rejects mom's adoption bid after breast surgical procedure ( Luxora Leader )
A Russian court has ruled that a woman who chose to have her breasts removed cannot look after two adopted boys since she identifies herself as a man. The long-running case of Yulia Savinovskikh affects two mentally disabled boys who were removed from her care last August. She appealed against ... |
| 02/13/2018 22:45 | Russian court rejects mother's adoption bid after breast surgery ( BBC News )
A higher court had asked the district court in Yekaterinburg to reconsider its ruling against Mrs Savinovskikh, but now the district court has stuck by its original decision. The ruling, quoted by human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov, said "Yu. V. Savinovskikh's self-identification as a male and her marriage to a ... |
| 02/13/2018 18:45 | Russian Court Pronounces Woman a 'Man in Same-Sex Marriage' in Custody Saga ( The Moscow Times )
A court in Siberia has justified the removal of a mother's adopted children by declaring her a "man in a same-sex marriage." Social workers removed Yulia Savinovskikh's two foster sons last year on suspicion that she had planned a sex change operation after undergoing breast reduction surgery. A local ... |
