Friday 3rd September, 2010
4 killed in Russian forest fires
MOSCOW -- Russia's emergencies ministry says forest fires in the country's south have killed four people. Forest fires plagued much of Russia during this summer's unusual wave of withering heat and dr...
WRAPUP 1-Tennis-Lightweights throw in the towel at U.S. Open
There was an old-fashioned fight at the U.S. Open on Thursday but not the one tournament officials wanted to see. Instead of happening on the court, the scuffle broke out in the upper deck, high above...
Russia suffers new fire outbreak
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the Volgograd region At least four people have died in a new outbreak of wildfires in Russia. In the south of the country fire swept through villages and towns...
UPDATE 1-Russia almost ready to move on Canada dlr investment
CongooMOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russia will be ready to invest its reserves in Canadian dollars in several weeks' time, and is still considering the possibility of buying Australian dollars, a central bank...
Wheat futures gain after Russia extends export ban
CongooFRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade added to gains Friday, a day after Russia extended its ban on wheat exports until late 2011. December wheat futures were up 8.75 ...
Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan
CongooMOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom has clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to control gas produced by former Soviet republics. Gazprom and the State Oil and Gas Company of Azerbaijan si...
Inspectors miss the flight to Kyrgyzstan
CongooPage 1 of 2 By M K Bhadrakumar The reset of the relationship of the United States with Russia is being put to the test for the first time. Kyrgyzstan poses a tough challenge: can the reset really work...
Deripaska on US mission
CongooBy John Helmer MOSCOW - Oleg Deripaska, chief executive of Rusal, the Russian aluminum monopoly, is preparing a series of presentations to institutional investors next week in Boston and New York, cha...
Stockpiling as Russian food prices soar
CongooPeople fear food shortages are real, but officials say panic buying has pushed up prices There is fear in drought-stricken Russia where the price of some essential food products soared 30% in August, ...
FSK UES launched the stocks.
AK & MFSK UES is going to place common stocks from Sep. 3, the company informed. The raised funds will be invested in the realization of the projects. The decision to increase the share capital through th...
AG Capital MC license annulled.
AK & MFSCM revoked the license of AG Capital Management Company due to the regular violation of the legislation in force by the latter, as it was informed.
OGK-1 can placed the stocks abroad.
AK & MFSCM permitted OGK-1 to place common stocks in the volume of 19bn (no more than 25%) abroad, as it was informed. Besides, 7.232bn common stocks can circulate in line with a permission (25% of the tot...
Healthy Eating? Think Again!
PravdaWikiLeaks has published a new portion of previously classified military documents. This time, the controversial website has exposed the memo produced by the CIA's Red Cell think tank, which elaborates...
Torrential Rains in Northwest China Trigger Massive Landslides, Kill at least 127
PravdaAt least 127 people have been confirmed dead, 76 others injured and 2,000 missing as of 4pm on Sunday 8 August 2010 in landslides triggered by torrential rains in Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonom...
Villagers Flee as Indonesia Volcano Erupts Again
CongooSURBAKTI (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years erupted yet on Friday, shooting a mushroomed-shape plume of smoke 3 km (2 miles) into the air and prompting the second evacuat...
Down and dirty in Russia
CongooTHREE STATIONS By Martin Cruz Smith Simon & Schuster. 243 pp. $25.99 For years, Martin Cruz Smith has written about Russia as a vivid hell on earth: gray, dim, meaningless, inhuman, inscrutable, hideo...
New forest fires in Russia kill five
CongooFIVE people died in southern Russia after new forest fires broke out, a regional official told news agencies on Friday. 'According to our data, the bodies of five people were found in the fire. But th...
Image-Kampagne: Putins Roadmovie mit Reserve-Lada
CongooSein Waldbrand-Krisenmanagement brachte ihm heftige Kritik ein, also haben PR-Strategen Wladimir Putin eine Imagekampagne verordnet. Jüngster Coup: Russlands Premier kutschierte im knallgelben Lada...
US Open Round-up: Federer marches on
CongooThere was an old-fashioned fight at the US Open on Thursday but not the one tournament officials wanted to see. Instead of happening on the court, the scuffle broke out in the upper deck, high above A...
U.S. Open: Federer, Djokovic In Third Round
CongooFive-time champion Roger Federer floored Germany's Andreas Beck in straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to enter the US Open third round while two leading names--sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and el...
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