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- World news: Russia | guardian.co.uk
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- The Moscow Times Top Stories
- NYT > Europe
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Russia Profile.org
- SPIEGEL ONLINE - International - Russia
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- Wash Post Europe
via NYT > Europe by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on 12/12/12
High output from the cartel, as well as robust U.S. production and anemic world demand have resulted in unusually high crude inventories. OPEC predicts even less demand next year.
via World news: Russia | guardian.co.uk by Miriam Elder on 12/12/12
Vladimir Putin has warned against foreign meddling in Russia's politics in a speech designed to spell out his priorities for the year ahead.
"Direct or indirect meddling in our domestic politics is unacceptable," Putin told a gathering of around 1,000 politicians in the Kremlin's grand St George Hall on Wednesday. "A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia."
Putin's comments built on a year-long campaign designed to paint members of the growing opposition to him as agents of the west.
It was a rare moment of attack in a 90-minute speech that saw Putin more calm and subdued than usual. Amid rumours of back trouble, the 60-year-old leader often leaned on the podium as he addressed the crowd.
The opposition is planning to march on Saturday to the Lubyanka, a building that housed the Soviet-era KGB and today houses its successor the FSB, in the first major gathering in months. Dozens of activists have been arrested and dozens more questioned in a far-reaching campaign designed to strike fear into those who dare protest against Putin.
Putin used his speech to pay lip service to liberal ideals. "Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy," Putin said. "I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world." The opposition to Putin arose after the powerful leader announced his intention to return to the presidency after four years as prime minister. Activists complained of widespread fraud in the elections that followed.
Putin acknowledged that something was missing in Russian society, and lay the blame at an absence of moral values.
"It's painful for me to talk about this today, but I am required to say this. Today, Russian society has a clear deficit of spiritual principles – mercy, compassion, mutual suffering and support – a deficit of that which through all of history made us stronger, which made us proud," Putin said. He called on officials to "strengthen the strong spiritual and moral fabric of society".
He also called on officials to re-instate patriotism in Russian schools, and urged Russian businesses to be patriotic. He then called for the "de-offshore-isation" of the Russian economy, referring to the fact that many Russian businesses are owned via shell companies in order to avoid taxes.
Putin attempted to convey that his recently launched anti-corruption campaign was a serious move to clean up the country's notoriously corrupt government. He told the officials gathered that Russian politicians and their close relatives should be banned from keeping money in foreign banks or owning shares in foreign companies. As the crowd began to clap, he stepped in to say: "Wait to applaud, you might not like what comes next."
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via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
Moscow's Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended until April the arrest of leftist opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev on charges of plotting mass riots.
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - With its caustic rhetoric on Israel and its gold-for-gas trade with Iran, Turkey is not the deferential U.S. ally it once was as it carves out a growing role in the fast-changing politics of the Middle East. The collapse of its ties with the Jewish state have put paid to U.S. hopes it could be a broker in the Arab-Israeli conflict, while its gold sales to Iran have provided a financial lifeline to a government meant to be under the choke of U.S. sanctions. ...
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
The White House was quick to condemn North Korea's successful launch of a long-range rocket, calling it a "highly provocative act" that threatens regional security.
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to preserve the nation's identity against interference from abroad.
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities will crack down on corruption and the flight of capital from the country, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. In his first state of the nation address since he started a six-year third term in May, Putin drew applause from his high-ranking audience when he said officials should be restricted by law from opening foreign bank accounts and owning securities abroad. "Don't applaud too soon - maybe you won't like it," he said, adding that the measures would apply to senior Kremlin, government and parliamentary officials. ...
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
The value of mergers and acquisitions deals around the world in 2012 was nearly half the amount made five years ago, when the financial crisis first bared its teeth, a leading accounting and consulting firm said Wednesday.
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 12/12/12
MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) - The leader of Syria's opposition coalition called on the country's Alawite minority on Wednesday to launch a campaign of civil disobedience against President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite who faces a mainly Sunni Muslim uprising against his rule. Mouaz Alkhatib also told a meeting in Morocco that the opposition would hold world powers, particularly Russia, responsible if Assad uses chemical weapons against rebel fighters. He urged Iran to withdraw personnel he said were supporting Assad in the 20-month-old Syrian conflict. ...
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
Ukraine's use of a legal loophole to raise trade barriers around its auto industry, livestock farmers and other sectors met a barrage of criticism at the World Trade Organization as a deadline expired for others to respond to its plan.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
A Russia-led coalition resubmitted a previously shelved proposal at this week's International Telecommunications Union conference in Dubai that calls for sweeping new governmental powers over the Internet.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
Sukhoi's fourth T-50 prototype fighter jet known by its Russian abbreviation PAKFA on Wednesday successfully performed its first test flight in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Associated Press <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
A senior Republican lawmaker is urging the Obama administration to do more to help NATO allies in Europe ease dangerous dependence on Russia's gas monopolies.
via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty by RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan on 12/12/12
Afghanistan's lower house of parliament has voted to start impeachment proceedings against 11 cabinet ministers.
via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty on 12/12/12
Considering Bosnia-Herzegovina's high level of unemployment, it is perhaps not surprising that illegal coal mining is quite widespread in the former Yugoslav republic, which has vast reserves of the fuel not far below the surface.
via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty by RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan on 12/12/12
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari were expected to discuss the suicide bombing last week that wounded Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
Renault-Nissan finalized a long-awaited deal to take control of Lada-maker AvtoVAZ as it looks to snatch market share from rivals in Russia by offering affordable, modern vehicles to a rising middle class.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
Artist Nikas Safronov has filed a civil suit against the authors of a Pussy Riot video for using his image without permission.
via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 12/11/12
President Vladimir Putin in his state-of-the-nation address on Wednesday ordered the government to tackle issues including a crisis of national identity, population decline, corruption and the economy's dependence on natural resources.
via Russia - Google News on 12/12/12
Russia's Defense Shuffle May Tarnish Its Military
NPR The Russian military is plagued by problems: A top heavy senior officer corps and a defense industry that churns out obsolete equipment, to name just two. Analysts in Russia say the U.S. should be worried about a weaker Russia, which may be becoming a ... |
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