WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE: RUSSIA: TEACHER WHO SAID SHE WAS PRESSURED TO RIG VOTE FACES TRIAL
A teacher went on trial in St. Petersburg on Wednesday after publicly claiming that she was pressured to help rig Russia’s parliamentary election to increase the results for Vladimir Putin’s party.
05/16/2012 23:28, NewYork Times |
MOSCOW RIOT POLICE DISMANTLE ANTI-PUTIN CAMP
A camp set up by protesters opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin was dismantled by riot police in Moscow on Wednesday.
According to police authorities, 20 activists have been briefly detained.
A Moscow court had earlier obliged police to "take action to put a halt to disorder" at th...
05/16/2012 02:21, Sofia News Agency |
RUSSIA'S PATRIARCH LAUNCHES FACEBOOK PAGE
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched on Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the church's thickening ties with newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin. Kirill has openly supported Putin, wh...
05/15/2012 21:00, Yahoo!News |
PUTIN HAILS SOVIET VICTORY, WILL PROMOTE RUSSIA'S MIGHT
 Vladimir Putin said he would promote Russia's might on the world stage in a patriotic speech on Wednesday glorifying the Soviet victory over Germany in World War Two.
05/09/2012 07:35, msnbc |
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN NOMINATES MEDVEDEV AS PM
Vladimir Putin, who was inaugurated for the third time Monday as President of the Russian Federation, has nominated his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev to become Prime Minister.
The news was reported by the speaker of the Duma (the lower chamber of the Parliament), Sergey Narichkin, cited by Russian me...
05/07/2012 05:07, Sofia News Agency |
400 PROTESTERS ARRESTED AS PUTIN RETURNS TO POWER
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's president at a glittering ceremony on Monday, hours after clashes between police and thousands of protesters in the country's capital laid bare the deep divisions over his return to the Kremlin for six more years.
05/07/2012 01:28, msnbc |
PUTIN INAUGURATED RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated President of Russia Monday in a ceremony in the capital, Moscow.
Putin won the largely-disputed March elections. He will replace Dmitry Medvedev at the post and actually returns to the presidential office after an absence of four years in which he served as Prime ...
05/07/2012 00:43, Sofia News Agency |