01.12.2004 - The British Helsinki Human Rights Group is convinced that the election was honest
Western Europe seems to have accepted the American theory that the presidential election in Ukraine was rigged. Washington and Old European capitals, in particular Berlin, demand a repetition of the second round of the election.
in detail...
|
|
01.12.2004 - Putin against "pressure" in Ukraine issue
Russian President Vladimir Putin received a telephone call from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Tuesday and told him that Russia is against "any external or domestic pressure" as a way of solving the crisis in Ukraine.
in detail...
|
29.11.2004 - United Russia used to be a pro-Kremlin party, but it is not so any more
United Russia used to be a pro-Kremlin party, but it is not so any more, Lyubov Sliska, one of the party’s leaders, pointed out. Ms. Sliska, who is First Vice Speaker of the State Duma, or Russia’s lower house of parliament, spoke to reporters Saturday during a break in United Russia’s 5th Congress, underway in Moscow.
in detail...
|
27.11.2004 - The State Duma passed the Conciliatory Commission’s version of a federal law restricting beer sales
If the law comes into force, beer sales would be banned in cultural and sports buildings and public transportation. The law also places a number of restrictions on the location of beer vendors. Furthermore, the draft law restricts drinking beer and similar beverages in public places.
in detail...
|
|
27.11.2004 - Next year’s federal budget is more generous on the Russian Armed Forces than any of the preceding years
The Army and the Navy now can afford to meet their goals, Sergei Ivanov, Defence Minister, said today to one of the regular ministerial board sessions.
in detail...
|
27.11.2004 - Dalai Lama’s visit expected to be strictly confessional
Dalai Lama’s coming visit to Russia will have a purely confessional character, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko said on Friday.
in detail...
|
27.11.2004 - Yanukovych says he doesn’t need power if blood is spilled
Viktor Yanukovych, whom the Ukrainian Central Elections Commission declared the elected president, called on his supporters at a rally at the Vokzalna Square in Kyiv to remain patient.
in detail...
|
|
26.11.2004 - Ukrainian Pres, leading oppositionist begin talks
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and the country’s leading oppositionist Viktor Yuschenko, who regards himself as a winner of the second round of presidential election, have begun talks in the Mariinsky Palace here to find ways out of the post-election political impasse in this country.
in detail...
|
26.11.2004 - Members of Russia’s Committee of Conscripts’ Mothers remain determined to meet with Chechen rebel leaders
Russia’s Committee of Conscripts’ Mothers plans to send a delegation to Brussels for a meeting with Ahmad Zakayev, a Chechen rebel envoy now living in self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom. European MP Bart Stas has reportedly invited Zakayev to visit Belgium this week. But a Belgian Interior Ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti Monday that to the best of his knowledge, Zakayev had not applied for an entry visa to Belgium.
in detail...
|
|
26.11.2004 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned against pushing Ukraine into mass-scale unrest
Speaking at a press conference in The Hague, where he arrived for a EU-Russia summit, President Putin said: "I am deeply convinced that we have absolutely no moral right to push the large European country [Ukraine is] into mass-scale unrest of any sort."
in detail...
|
|
<< < 60 61 62
63 64 > >> |
