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03.02.2005 - Russia writes off over $40Bln in debt to developing countries in 3 years
Over the past three years, Russia has written off over $40 billion worth of debts to developing countries, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said at a high-level forum of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development held in Paris on February 1-2.
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03.02.2005 - Muscotives honour memory of Stalingrad defenders
Ceremonies of laying flowers and wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall and at the monument to the Hero City of Volgograd in the Alexander Garden, as well as at the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, were held in the Russian capital on Wednesday.
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30.01.2005 - Baltic Fleet celebrates anniversary of World War II sea battle
On January 30, 1945 the Soviet submarine sank the Nazi liner Wilhelm Gustlow with a displacement of around 25,000 tons and 10,000 passengers on board,
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29.01.2005 - The Russian population might decrease to 75-100 million in 50 years compared to 143.1 million in 2003
Russia survived three demographic crises in the 20th century: World War I and the Revolution (1915-1922); collectivization and Stalin’s repressions (1930-1936); and World War II. In all three instances, though, it managed to replenish its losses comparatively quickly. After 1945, the Soviet Union experienced a genuine baby boom and the country’s population surpassed the pre-war level.
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28.01.2005 - Commission: Officials helped militants seize Beslan school
The Russian parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school siege has passed over to law enforcement agencies evidence on two more officials suspected of helping the militants seize the school in early September 2004, the commission head said on Thursday.
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28.01.2005 - 61% of Russians can be considered anti-globalists
61% of Russians can be considered anti-globalists. Somehow or other they agree that globalization solves some problems but causes a lot of new ones. 19% of Russians are of the opposite opinion while 20% had no response.
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27.01.2005 - Moscow Central Literature House will host an event dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
On January 27 the Moscow Central Literature House will host an event dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation by the Red Army. It is organized by the Holocaust foundation, the Moscow government, Israel’s embassy, the Federation of Russia’s Jewish Communities, the Jewish agency Sohnut and the Solomon Mikhoels Center.
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26.01.2005 - January is a bad month for Russian Jews
The phrase "residence limit" joined the Russian vocabulary in January during the rule of Alexander I. Solomon Michoels, head of the famous Jewish theatre, was killed on Stalin’s orders and the persecution of the Antifascist Jewish Committee began in January 1948. Next followed the notorious "Jewish doctors’ plot."
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26.01.2005 - Operation to seize armed extremists underway in Nalchik
A special operation to seize armed extremists is currently being carried out in the southern Russian city of Nalchik, sources with the Kabardino-Balkarian law enforcement told Interfax.
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26.01.2005 - Russia regions struggling with welfare benefit problems
Authorities of Russia’s regions are in a scramble to settle problems that have arisen with the replacement of welfare benefits of several categories of people with partial cash compensation.
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