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Russia considers smoking ban
In a familiar scene of Russian daily life, Ivan Alexandrov smoked a cigarette outside a Moscow metro station as other commuters stepped out of the heavy doors and immediately lit up. But under a draft law already passed by parliament banning smoking in public places, from next year such scenes…
U.S. ‘very disappointed’ by Russian ban on U.S. meat
Washington sharply criticized Moscow Monday for banning imports of US meat, saying the Russians had ignored scientific proof that an additive in US animal feed is safe. Top US officials said that global food-safety experts had cleared the additive, ractopamine, as safe at levels used in the United States. But…
HRW condemns Russia’s ‘worst post-Soviet crackdown’
Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the Russian authorities under President Vladimir Putin for unleashing the toughest crackdown against civil society since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. “The Kremlin in 2012 unleashed the worst political crackdown in Russia’s post-Soviet history,” the New-York based rights watchdog said in…
Russia pulls out of decade-old drug control agreement with U.S.
The United States on Wednesday criticized what it described as Russia’s “self-defeating” decision to pull out of a decade-old drug control agreement. “We are seeking more clarification from the Russian government at the moment with regard to what they see this covering. We obviously regret this decision,” State Department spokeswoman…
Top Bolshoi ballerina ‘flees Russia’ after threats
One of the Bolshoi ballet’s best known ballerinas has fled Russia for Canada after receiving threats over a business dispute involving her husband, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday. Svetlana Lunkina told the Izvestia daily she had taken leave from the theatre until the end of the season over troubles stemming…
Russia prepares to advance anti-LGBT bill
Russia’s parliament was expected Friday to give initial backing to a bill banning homosexual “propaganda” among minors that could lead to gays being fined for demonstrating or kissing in public. The highly contentious measure is based on a law passed in President Vladimir Putin’s native city of Saint Petersburg last…
Russia seeks nationwide ban on ‘homosexual propaganda’
Russia could soon adopt a controversial new law that targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, according to the Associated Press. The Russian parliament will vote this week on legislation that would outlaw providing minors with “propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.” The bill would make promoting homosexuality to minors,…
Russians warily turn to AA in battle with alcohol
One-time Russian prisoner Andrei tried to quit drinking 22 times, going for cures that lasted from one to six months. But each time, he went back to the bottle. Then 14 years ago, the 58-year-old tried Alcoholics Anonymous, attracted by the different approach, which was not about doctors reprimanding the…
Russia’s 2012 oil output hits post-Soviet high
World energy power Russia said on Wednesday that its 2012 oil output hit a post-Soviet record high level while natural gas production declined amid stalling European sales. The energy ministry’s reporting unit said oil and gas condensate production grew by 1.3 percent last year to reach 518.0 million tonnes (10.4…
Russia’s brutal early winter claims 123 lives
A bitter cold spell in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official said Tuesday, with the unseasonably early freeze testing authorities in a country used to notoriously tough winters. Temperatures have plunged to up to minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 34 degrees Farenheit) in the…
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