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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:00 AM

Russia

Type: Country

Name: Russia

population: 144,003,904

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 74 Documents (in Politics)

British foreign minister visits Russia to thaw ties

POISONOUS ACCUSATION: The wife of Alexander Litvinenko, allegedly killed by a Russian parliamentarian, criticized the trip, saying it was ‘adding insult to injury’AFP , MOSCOWBritish Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, meets Russian Foreign Minister ... [Taipei Times Online - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Russia, Alexander Litvinenko, David Miliband, Moscow, Yuri Fedotov

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 3 hours ago - 9 Documents

David Miliband

Miliband meets his long-lost Russian relative

Tony Halpin in MoscowIt was easily the most fruitful of David Miliband’s efforts to restore Anglo-Russian relations during his visit to Moscow. After a day of difficult diplomacy with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Secretary sat down ... [Times Online - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Ralph Miliband, David Miliband, Moscow, Ed Miliband, Tony Halpin

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 6 hours ago - 29 Documents

International Atomic Energy Agency

UK, Russia demand prompt response from Iran

MOSCOW Britain and Russia both demand that Iran give a prompt response to a United Nations-drafted nuclear fuel deal, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on a visit to Moscow on Monday, even as Teheran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy ... [Oman Tribune - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Russia

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 43 mins ago - 3 Documents

Huge fire breaks out in Saint Petersburg: reports

A massive fire broke out late Tuesday at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported.The fire broke out in the northeastern Vyborg district of the former capital and spread to cover ... [InSing.com - 43 mins ago]

Entities: Saint Petersburg, Vyborg (Russia), emergency, Russia

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 13 Documents

Former KGB agent shot dead in Moscow

Shabtai von Kalmanovic killed while his car was stopped at traffic lights, in what police say was a professional hitInvestigators at the scene of the shooting of Shabtai von Kalmanovic in Moscow. Photograph: Andrey Smirnov/AFP/ Detectives in Russia are ... [Guardian.co.uk - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Moscow, KGB, Ruslan Yamadayev

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 5 Documents

Sanitary control intensifies at Moscow pre-school institutions

MOSCOW, November 3 (Itar-Tass) -- , Chief Public Health Official Gennady Onishchenko told a Tuesday press briefing. ?We have decided to intensify sanitary control at pre-school institutions attended by children, who age from three to six,? he said. ?Every ... [Itar Tass - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Moscow, Nikolai Filatov, Public Health, Inoculum

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 14 Documents (in Environment)

Vladimir Putin

Climate deal must consider forests: Putin

A GLOBAL warming pact to be agreed next month in Copenhagen must take into account the carbon dioxide absorption potential of Russia's sprawling forests, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says.'Are we ready to support Denmark's efforts in the post-Kyoto period? ... [Herald Sun - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Climate, Carbon Dioxide, Kyoto

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 Documents

Moscow eyes $2bn Avtovaz rescue

The Russian government is considering raising cash to help the country's biggest carmaker avoid bankruptcy and pay off its debts, says Vladimir Putin, the prime minister ... [FT.com - World, Europe - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Avtovaz Co, Moscow, Government of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 8 Documents (in Space Science)

Russian rocket blasts European sats into orbit

The Russian launch vehicle “Rokot” has taken the scientific satellites SMOS and Proba-2 into space on Monday morning.The rocket, equipped with a Briz-KM booster and the two satellites onboard, blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russias north ... [Russia Today - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Plesetsk (Russia), Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Salinity, European Space Agency

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 6 Documents

UK and Russia seek to heal relations

The UK and Russia are seeking to heal a rift in relations as the foreign ministers emphasised a positive mood during the first visit to Moscow by a UK foreign secretary in five years ... [Financial Times - Asia homepage - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Russia, United Kingdom, Moscow

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 23 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

U.N. wants swift response from Iran on fuel proposal (Reuters)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday urged Iran to respond quickly to his nuclear fuel proposal while warning the world against using force. "I therefore urge Iran to be as forthcoming as possible in responding ... [Yahoo! News - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Weapon, Tehran, Mohamed ElBaradei

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 10 Documents

Financial aspect of Arctic Sea incident sorted out - Russian ministry

MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - Russia, Malta and the owner of the Maltese-flagged dry cargo carrier Arctic Sea have settled all financial issues related to the vessel, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a report on Tuesday. 'An act on the vessel's handover ... [Interfax - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Malta, Russia, Arrest Warrant

Quotes

...in the history of India's space program,' said G Madhavan Nair, a rocket scientist and the outgoing chairman of the national space agency, the . "More and more bright young Indian scientists are calling us for jobs. We will look back on this as a turning point." The ascendancy of India's space program highlights the country's rising ambitions on the world stage, as it grows economically and asserts itself in...

India's space ambitions taking off [Washington Post - 29 mins ago]

...says the choices made by Mikhail Gorbachev following his 1985 appointment as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party hastened the collapse. "He wanted to save communism but in the process of trying to save it, he accelerated its demise … So his policies of perestroika, [or, economic] restructuring, and then glasnost, or openness, speeded up the disintegration of the Soviet empire" Nye said.Richard Pipes, a leading authority on Russia and a former anti-Soviet crusader who served in the Reagan administration, also stresses Mr...

Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War [VOA News - 55 mins ago]

...oil pipeline with a capacity of 15 million tons is under construction and expected to pump oil from Russia to northeastern China from late 2010. "The three pipelines could account for 40 percent of oil imports after their completion, reducing the reliance on the Malacca Straits through which 80 percent of China's oil imports now pass" said Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economic Research Center at Xiamen University

CNPC begins work on oil port in Myanmar [CHINAdaily - 56 mins ago]

...of investments in sophisticated new refineries in China, India, Russia, the U S and in the MiddleMiddle East, which led to overcapacity, he added. "Overcapacity has been driven not by economic, but political factors" he said

Distillates In Floating Storage To Be 'Overwhelming' in 2010 Economist [Nasdaq - 59 mins ago]

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Pime Minister's visit to Spain: Zapatero unders... [Malta Independent Daily - 19 mins ago]
SPA LUX Recognized as Being One of Top 25 Ameri... [Prlog - 24 mins ago]
Give more voice to developing nations in IMF, W... [Individual.com - 27 mins ago]
India's space ambitions taking off [Washington Post - 29 mins ago]
Unified Communist Party of Nepal-M urged to rec... [Xinhua News Agency - 32 mins ago]
General Motors to Keep Opel [Huliq.com - 32 mins ago]
Durham announces another H1N1 vaccination clinic [Raleigh News & Observer - 34 mins ago]
SCENARIOS - Next steps in North Korea nuclear c... [Reuters India - 34 mins ago]
McIlroy and O’Driscoll honoured with Texaco awards [Belfast Telegraph - 35 mins ago]
IAEA chief urges Iran to cooperate on nuke issu... [DDI News - 36 mins ago]
GM abandons planned sale of Opel [CNN - 40 mins ago]
Holding firm [CAMag Online - 41 mins ago]
GM pulls out of Opel sale [CNN - 42 mins ago]
Huge fire breaks out in Saint Petersburg: reports [InSing.com - 43 mins ago]
Obama 'Doesn't Care' about Eastern Europe, Clai... [Sofia News Agency - 44 mins ago]
Indelible Jewish heritage in Harbin [Xinhua News Agency - 49 mins ago]
North Korea produces more weapons-grade plutonium [Daily Times - 49 mins ago]
Debate Still Rages Over Who Won the Cold War [VOA News - 55 mins ago]
CNPC begins work on oil port in Myanmar [CHINAdaily - 56 mins ago]
Distillates In Floating Storage To Be 'Overwhel... [Nasdaq - 59 mins ago]
Our Man in La Paz? [World Politics Review - 1 hour ago]
Moscow eyes $2bn Avtovaz rescue [FT.com - World, Europe - 1 hour ago]
Moscow eyes $2bn Avtovaz rescue [FT.com - Industrials - 1 hour ago]
Moscow eyes $2bn Avtovaz rescue [FT.com - Automobiles - 1 hour ago]
OIL: Cuba and Russia sign first post-Soviet oil... [France24 - Business - 1 hour ago]
Huge fire breaks out in Saint Petersburg: reports [France24 - Americas - 1 hour ago]
Huge fire breaks out in Saint Petersburg: reports [France24 - europe - 1 hour ago]
Ukrainian president wants gas agreements with R... [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]
GM makes surprise U-turn by ditching Opel sale [FT.com - Automobiles - 2 hours ago]

Blogs

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Ukraine: Yet Another Flu Roundup [Global Voices Online - 1 hour ago] More updates on the flu situation - Greetings from Kyiv: “Flu is all anyone is talking about in Ukraine right now.” Ukraine Today: “Ukraine's best hope now is to ...
Carl Pope: Playing by Polish Rule [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago] This post is long -- but it's one of my most heartfelt, so I hope you'll bear with me.As I write this, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ...
Blogger throws a shoe at Samara city mayor [Global Voices Online - 2 hours ago] Blogger Vitaly Papilkin [RUS] threw his shoe at Samara Mayor Viktor Tarhov. It looks like political shoe throwing is becoming mainstream - it's the sixth case in ...
GM to Keep Opel [Green Car Congress - 3 hours ago] Given an improving business environment for GM over the past few months, and the importance of Opel/Vauxhall to GM’s global strategy, the GM Board of Directors has ...
GM to Keep Opel [Green Car Congress - 3 hours ago] Given an improving business environment for GM over the past few months, and the importance of Opel/Vauxhall to GM’s global strategy, the GM Board of Directors has ...

Audio/Video

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ABC World News, 11.03.09 [ABC World News (Enhanced Video) - 6 hours ago]
The Mystery of the Rising Stock Market [Slate Magazine - 7 hours ago]
If the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? T... [Slate Magazine - 7 hours ago]
Adobe premier: Putin the moviemaker [Russia Today - YouTube - 10 hours ago]
Brain Drain: Russian scientists still flee the ... [Russia Today - YouTube - 13 hours ago]

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