McDonalds abandons most expensive burger

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

McDonald's franchise has decided to abandon the Angus burger sold in the United States due to lower demand on the product. Angus was available at McDonald's restaurant for $4, according ...

Reshuffle in North Korean Defense Ministry is not Apocalypse

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Monday that the country's leader Kim Jong-un appointed a new Minister of People's Armed Forces, Colonel-General Chang Chung-Nam. How may this reshuffle affect the situation on the Korean Peninsula? Pravda.Ru asked leading officer of the Center for Korean Studies of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Konstantine Asmolov, to comment the ...

Football match interrupted over racist remarks in Italy

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

On Sunday, the Italian Serie A match between FC Milan and Roma was interrupted because of racist insults against black player Mario Balotelli, according ...

Maria Sharapova gives way to Serena Williams in WTA rankings

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has moved to second place in the updated rankings of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), giving way to Serena Williams of the United States. In a new table of ranks of WTA best tennis players in the world, top spot was taken by the American athlete. Serena Williams has 11,115 ranking points. Sharapova was placed on the second position with 10,690 ...

Unmanned aircraft No thanks

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The latest gossip has it that pilotless aircraft are soon to take to the skies, ferrying passengers from one part of the globe to another in an entirely automated process. Until what point does robotics have a use and at which point does the human being become ...

Plane Catches Fire Upon Landing at Moscows Vnukovo Airport

RIA Novosti - Saturday 18th May, 2013

MOSCOW/STAVROPOL, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire upon landing, a law enforcement source said. No one was reported injured in the incident."The plane's left landing gear leg caught fire upon landing. Preliminary reports suggest ...

Complaint filed against Nestle in Colombian trade unionists death

Pravda - Friday 17th May, 2013

Nestle was accused of failing to protect Luciano Romero, one of their employees and a Colombian trade union leader. The Trade Union Workers of the Colombia Agrifood System, said that the multinational did not protect the union member who was brutally murdered. The prosecutor of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland has filed a complaint against ...

Young and healthy mind

Pravda - Friday 17th May, 2013

In the study, scientists put mice in environments with multiple stimuli and then assessed the anatomical changes in the brain. They found that stimulating environmental activates a via related to adrenaline, which reduces the formation of beta-amyloid in the region of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain responsible for memory. The protective mechanism was most effective in young rats and ...

Spy row worsens Russian names CIAs Moscow chief

Times of India - Friday 17th May, 2013

Russian security forces . Footage was aired showing him wearing a blond wig and his array of spying equipment, including a compass and an old-fashioned mobile phone. An unnamed representative of the FSB security services told the Interfax news agency that back in 2011, the agency had "officially warned" the CIA station chief in Moscow over what it called "provocative recruiting ...

Brazil abolished slavery 125 years ago

Pravda - Friday 17th May, 2013

May 13, 1888 - the Golden Law (Lei Aúrea) officially ended slavery in Brazil, some 350 years after the first Portuguese colony was established, following the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500. During those centuries, some four million Africans were taken away from their families and sold into ...

Putin explained Russia’s position on Syrian settlement to UN Secretary-General - Peskov

Itar Tass - Friday 17th May, 2013

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The Moscow Rules Still Rule - By Milton Bearden

Foreign Policy - Friday 17th May, 2013

Obama doubling the number of Marine guards for embassies; POTUS reduces the max sentence for rape in the military; Hand leaves the Pentagon; No free coins for the Navy; Not much carpooling to the White House; Russia sends warships; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...

Putin’s Kremlin Helipad Cost $6.4 Mln – Official

RIA Novosti - Friday 17th May, 2013

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Construction of a helicopter pad for President Vladimir Putin’s Mi-8 in the Kremlin cost almost 200 million rubles (about $6.4 mln), the Kremlin chief property manager, Vladimir Kozhin, said. "About 200 million rubles were spent to finance all construction stages, including land survey works, modeling and landscaping, Kozhin told reporters on ...

‘Unprecedented’ CIA Moscow Chief Leak Puzzles Ex-Spies

RIA Novosti - Friday 17th May, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 17 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) - Russia's decision to publicly identify a purported top US spy in the country is an "unprecedented" move in relations between Moscow and Washington going back back to the Soviet era with no clear indication of how the United States will react, former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and security experts told RIA ...

Pussy Riot Putin-bashing punk rock and politics make for a riotous mix

The Independent - Friday 17th May, 2013

It is more than a year since five members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot wearing brightly coloured balaclava masks staged a short and cacophonous performance in front of the altar of Moscow's Christ The Saviour Cathedral. Their impromptu gig (in February 2012) caused immediate outrage while becoming a worldwide media sensation in the ...

Spartak station of Moscow metro in phase of active construction

Itar Tass - Friday 17th May, 2013

MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Spartak station of Moscow’s Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line /traditionally marked on the city plans and maps with the crimson color/ is in the phase of active construction works now, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday. The station is being built by the side of the Spartak stadium, which is being erected on territory of the former Tushino airfield, and ...

Russia warms to Syrian weapons investigation

Middle East Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

Sergei Lavrov said Friday his government would do what it could to advance efforts to investigate claims of chemical weapons in Syria. Various sources said chemical weapons may have been used by both parties to the conflict in Syria. The BBC reported this week it has seen evidence Syrian forces dropped poisonous gas on civilian-populated areas last month. The Syrian government asked for a U.N. ...

Grieving relatives of Bulgaria boat victims storm the court

Pravda - Friday 17th May, 2013

The trial on the case of the tragic sinking of Bulgaria ship has recently started in the Republic of Tatarstan. The courthouse can hardly house all members of the process, including witnesses, victims and relatives of those killed - more than a thousand people in total. On the first day of the meeting, at the request of the defendants, the session was postponed till May 27. The proceedings ...