Day: October 15, 2019
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ROSATOM takes part in Russia—Africa Economic Forum
The Russia-Africa Economic Forum will host on October 23 a panel discussion “Contribution of Nuclear Technologies in the Development of Africa” with the participation of Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev The panel discussion will become one of the key topic within the framework of the forum’s business program. Alexey Likhachev will discuss the possibilities…
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Russia Doles Out First ‘Fake News’ Fine Over Moscow Protest Interviews
A Moscow court on Tuesday handed down Russia’s first fine for spreading “fake news” against an online media outlet over its interviews about this summer’s Moscow opposition rallies. President Vladimir Putin signed legislation into law this year that fines online media for spreading “fake news.” Observers warned that the “fake news” and “disrespect for authority”…
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Russian Reporters Receive Threats After Investigating Secret Military Group
A group of Russian journalists who investigated the activities of a secretive group of Russian mercenaries in Africa and the Middle East have been subject to a campaign of physical threats and harassment, their editor-in-chief said. “Proekt,” an independent Moscow-based online news outlet which specializes in investigations, began to publish a series of articles in…
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Chechen Leader’s Inner Circle Being Held, Tortured in Secret Prisons – Novaya Gazeta
Senior officials and their relatives in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya are being held and tortured in secret prisons in the region, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Monday. The crackdown is targeting officials deemed to be showing disrespect and disloyalty toward Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his family, Novaya Gazeta reported, citing unnamed…
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Russians Feel More Positive Toward Ukraine Since Zelenskiy’s Election, Poll Says
Russian attitudes toward Ukraine have improved since the beginning of the year thanks to the election of Volodymyr Zelenskiy as Ukraine’s president, a joint study by the independent Levada Center pollster and the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) has said. Ties between the two neighbors have been fraught since 2014, when Russia annexed the…
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Kremlin Envoy Calls Turkish Military Operation in Syria ‘Unacceptable’
The Kremlin’s envoy for Syria on Tuesday called Turkey’s military offensive in northeast Syria “unacceptable” and denied Ankara’s operation had been cleared by Moscow in advance, Russian news agencies reported. Alexander Lavrentiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Syria, was speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi during an official visit there by Putin. He made…
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Russia Says ‘Unacceptable’ Turkish Incursion Into Syria Must Be Temporary
Russia called Turkey’s military incursion into northeast Syria “unacceptable” and said on Tuesday the operation had to be limited in time and scale, a rare broadside that suggests Moscow’s patience with Ankara is wearing thin. In Russia‘s strongest criticism since Turkey launched its military operation last week, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Syria indicated Moscow…
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U.S. ‘Hands Over’ Syrian City to Russia, Reports Say
The United States has “handed over” the northern Syrian city of Manbij to Russia, Newsweek magazine reported as Russia announced that its military was patrolling the area. The abrupt U.S. withdrawal from the eight-year Syrian war, and the Syrian army’s return to the Kurdish-controlled northeast, are major victories for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his…
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Belarus Detains Russian Accused of U.S. Election Meddling
A Russian national indicted in the United States for meddling in the country’s 2016 presidential election was briefly detained in Belarus, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller in 2018 charged 13 Russians and three companies for allegedly carrying out a sophisticated, years-long conspiracy to meddle in the 2016…
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Moscow Considers More Tax Breaks for Crimea
Crimea could be set for a fresh round of tax breaks and investment incentives to support the annexed peninsula’s tourism industry, according to Russian daily Kommersant. An influential business group founded by the Kremlin has called on the government to give tax breaks on land, real estate and utilities to Crimean businesses, while also offering…
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Skripal Poisoning Suspect Spotted at Russian Spymaster’s Daughter’s Wedding
A man Britain suspects of poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been filmed attending the wedding of the daughter of an alleged top military intelligence unit commander, according to media reports. British prosecutors last year accused two Russians they said were operating under aliases of trying to murder GRU defector Skripal and his daughter…
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On This Day in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev Was Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
On this day in 1990, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the U.S.S.R., “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community.” By that time, Gorbachev had withdrawn Soviet troops from Afghanistan, had not interfered in the fall…
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ROSATOM and ENEC continue cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy
October 15, 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE – ROSATOM and Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The signing was held in Abu Dhabi on the sidelines of the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the United Arab…
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Russian Universities Named the Best in Eastern Europe
Three Russian universities topped a list of the best universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia compiled by British education marketing company Quacquarelli Symonds. Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University and Novosibirsk State University took the top three spots, while Tomsk State University, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Higher…
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Over 1000 visitors attended ROSATOM’s Festival of Science & Technology-2019 in Hanoi (Vietnam)
Hanoi, October 11-13 – ROSATOM, Hanoi University of Science & Technology (HUST) and Information Center on Nuclear Energy (ICONE) jointly organize the Festival of Science & Technology-2019. During the Festival aimed to popularize atomic technologies among the youth of Vietnam a wide range of lectures and discussions supported by leading experts of Russian nuclear industry…
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Russian Women Stranded in Syrian ISIS Prison Seek Help as Turkey Mounts Offensive – RTVI
Dozens of Russian women in a camp for Islamic State prisoners in northern Syria are seeking help from their motherland as Turkey’s incursion against the Kurds has thrown the region into disarray, the international Russian language news outlet RTVI reported on Monday. Turkey’s defense minister said Monday that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters had emptied a…
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Massive Nuclear War Games Start in Russian Arctic
Swathes of Russia’s arctic seas are closed off for huge nuclear war games taking place this week. Five submarines, more than 100 aircraft, 200 missile launchers and 12,000 Russian troops will be taking part in the exercise, the Defense Ministry said Monday — the latest major drill testing the readiness of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces. …
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Putin’s Dollar Dump Costs Russia $8Bln
The first year of President Vladimir Putin’s experiment in diversifying away from the U.S. dollar cost Russia about $7.7 billion in potential returns. Russia’s central bank added exposure to underperforming currencies such as the euro and yuan just as it missed out on a 6.5% rally in the greenback. If it had maintained the previous…
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New Wave of Police Searches Targets Allies of Opposition Leader Navalny Across Russia
Police searched the homes of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s supporters in at least 12 Russian cities overnight following mass raids last month, the police-monitoring website OVD-Info reported Tuesday. News of the latest wave of early-morning home searches came from cities including Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar in the south and Arkhangelsk in the north. Police carried out more…
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Thousands March in Kiev in Protest Against Donbass Peace Plan With Russia
Thousands of people marched through central Kiev on Monday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s deal with Moscow to grant special status to a pro-Russian rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine as part of efforts to end a five-year conflict there. Around 20,000 people, including war veterans, took part in the rally ‘No capitulation’ against what…