Archive for February, 2010
Weekend Violence Shows Danger of Traumatic Weapons
February 28th, 2010 | 
Author: City police registered a spate of violence over the weekend involving so-called traumatic weapons, including the shooting of another snowplow driver and a murder-suicide. Last month, President Dmitry …
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Russian Courts Ordered To Respect Strasbourg Rulings
Russia's Constitutional Court MOSCOW — Russia's Constitutional Court has issued a resolution declaring that rulings by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg must serve as a basis for appea…
Gazprom Price Change to Last 3 Years
Gazprom on Friday detailed the concessions it was giving to its four largest customers, saying its long-term contracts would take into account the much-lower spot price for gas for only three years. T…
2,000 square meters of roofing cave in at St Petersburg industrial site
ST. PETERSBURG, February 28 (Itar-Tass) — About 2,000 square meters of roofing caved in at an industrial site of the St. Petersburg Primorskoye Amalgamation, a berry supplier, on Sunday, a source at …
Sibir Airbus 319 makes emergency landing in Rostov-on-Don
MOSCOW, February 28 (Itar-Tass) — An Airbus 319 of the Sibir airline flying from Moscow made an emergency landing in Rostov-on-Don on Sunday, airline spokesperson Irina Kolesnikova told Itar-Tass. ?S…
Tehran to carry on peaceful atomic energy activity – supreme leader
MOSCOW, February 28 (Itar-Tass) — Iran will carry on peaceful atomic energy activity no matter what, Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei told Foreign Ministry staff members on Sunda…