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Pussy Riot member opens up about prison camp routine
One of Russia’s jailed Pussy Riot punks complained Monday of grey monotony and strict rules in her prison camp in the Urals mountains, in her first detailed account of her experiences. In an article in The New Times weekly, Maria Alyokhina, 24, described her first weeks at Corrective Labour Colony…
Explosive traces ‘found on crashed Polish presidential jet’
Traces of explosives have been discovered on the wreck of the Polish presidential jet which crashed in Russia in 2010, killing then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people, a newspaper reported Tuesday. “Tests have confirmed the presence of TNT and nitroglycerine on 30 seats. The substances were also found…
Russia ‘returns to Stalin-era show trials’: Memorial
Russia’s leaders are using Stalin-era tactics against the opposition including show trials and camp sentences, one of its most authoritative rights groups warned Tuesday. Memorial rights group slammed the treatment of activists after two members of the Pussy Riot feminist rock group were sent to prison camps for a protest…
Showdown set on bid to give UN control of Internet
It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet. Russia, China…
South Korea suspends rocket launch
South Korea suspended its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit by at least three days on Friday, after a helium leak was detected in the rocket just hours before scheduled launch time. With only a five-day launch window that ends October 30, any further delay could result in…
U.S. ‘coordinates weapon deliveries’ to Syria rebels: Russia
MOSCOW — Russia on Thursday accused Washington of “coordinating” deliveries of arms to Syrian rebels, despite assurances by the State Department that the United States provides no lethal assistance. “Washington is aware of the deliveries of various weapons to illegal armed groups active in Syria. Moreover, judging by the declarations…
Russia launches astronauts to space station
A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station. Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford blasted off in a Soyuz TMA-06M space craft on schedule at 1051 GMT from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an…
Deadly gas use haunts Moscow theater hostages 10 years later
A decade after Chechen militants seized a Moscow theatre in a hostage crisis which left 130 people dead, victims’ families are still seeking answers about use of a deadly gas by Russian forces to end the siege. A total of 912 people, many of them children, were held hostage in…
Russian protest leader placed under house arrest
MOSCOW — Russia placed a leader of mass protest rallies against President Vladimir Putin under house arrest on Wednesday after questioning him in a criminal probe into allegations he was plotting a violent uprising. The country’s Investigative Committee said Sergei Udaltsov, 35, had been “placed under the obligation not to…
‘Violations’ mar Russian elections
MOSCOW — Russians on Sunday voted to elect governors and mayors in the first such polls since President Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin as observers complained of numerous violations. Voters went to the polls to elect different layers of local and regional government in almost all the country’s regions,…
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