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Declaring Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his relatives a legitimate target of NATO attacks is “going overboard,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. “The coalition is, in effect, openly declaring that its task is regime change [in Libya]. That Gaddafi and his relatives…are a legitimate target. This is over the top,” he saidContinue reading Russia slams NATO targeting of Gaddafi, relatives

The Russian Investigative Committee has failed to file formal tax evasion charges against Hermitage Capital head William Browder because he did not show up for questioning, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. “If he fails to appear again, action will be taken to establish his whereabouts and enforce his presence,” committee spokeswoman Irina Dudukina said. U.S.-bornContinue reading Hermitage Capital CEO fails to show up for questioning in Russia

We have been having a great time in Odessa Ukraine. The weather has been just about perfect and the sights we have been seeing are really cool… We have stayed in a flat near the Black Sea. It was very nice and the price is right due to off season. We could walk to theContinue reading Odessa Ukraine and Life has been Wonderful…

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed another four Interior Ministry generals, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.

Some 3,000,000 people took part in Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, the Russian capital’s police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said. Victory Day that Russia celebrates on May 9 marks the final defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union in World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. This year, the 66th anniversaryContinue reading Three million people celebrated Victory Day in Moscow

Our duty is to safeguard peace achieved by the victory in the 1941-45 war against Nazi Germany, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a military parade in Moscow on Monday. The military parade dedicated to the 66th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War was launched on Moscow’s Red Square at 10:00Continue reading President Medvedev says ‘our duty is to safeguard peace’

President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Tuesday that Russia should consider introducing chemical castration as a punishment for criminals guilty of sexual offences against children. “Punishments should be as harsh as possible. The state should use all means possible, and a liberal approach here is totally unacceptable,” Medvedev said at a meeting on the development ofContinue reading Medvedev calls for discussion of chemical castration for pedophiles

Russian news websites are morally wrong to show a video of a sexual assault on a St. Petersburg schoolboy, but there is no legal basis to demand they remove the clip, a local children’s rights official said on Tuesday. Local news agency BaltInfo said several high school pupils raped a 13-year old boy with theContinue reading Russian children’s rights official decries web clip of assault

Moscow said on Tuesday it expected Kiev to punish the Ukrainian nationalists who disrupted Victory Day celebrations in Lvov and attacked Russian diplomats. Members of the Ukrainian Svoboda (Freedom) nationalist organization on May 9 engaged in a brawl with WWII veterans, tore and burnt Soviet flags, and trod on a wreath that the Russian consulContinue reading Russia demands punishment for Ukrainian nationalists

A Pacific Fleet task force led by the Admiral Vinogradov destroyer has completed a friendly visit to Vietnam and is now heading for the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok. The Admiral Vinogradov destroyer, accompanied by a salvage tug and the Pechenga tanker, has paid a friendly visit to the Vietnamese port city of Da NangContinue reading Russian warships complete visit to Vietnam, head to Vladivostok