Russian news items posted to Russian Notes by Dr. Bruce Holl

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Interfax: “Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has demanded that the government suspend its decision on selling grain on exchanges and revisit the process by which grain is sold out of the country’s Intervention Fund.”

International Herald Tribune: “The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday sought to play down the expulsion of a British correspondent based in Moscow, saying that he had violated rules for journalists but that he could return if he agreed to abide by them.”

ITAR-TASS: “Three suspected accomplices to terrorists who committed the terror act at the Domodedovo airport on January 24 were arrested in Ingushetia on Wednesday, a source in the Magas city court told Itar-Tass.” Russia Today is reporting that “Russia’s Investigative Committee reports four suspects apparently involved in the terrorist act at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, which claimed the lives of 36 people, have been detained in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.”

RFE/Radio Liberty: “Members of the Russian opposition Yabloko party’s youth branch were detained February 8 while picketing the Central Election Commission office in Moscow, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports.”

RIA Novosti: “Russian opposition activist Igor Berezyuk has been charged with instigating mass disturbances, provoking race hate and using violence against police, his lawyer said on Wednesday.”

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Би-би-си: “Городской суд столицы Ингушетии Магаса санкционировал взятие под стражу нескольких подозреваемых по делу о взрыве в аэропорту Домодедово 24 января“.

Газета.ru: “Президент России Дмитрий Медведев потребовал приостановить продажу зерна через торги из-за опасности коррупции”.

Лента.ru: “Журналист британской газеты The Guardian Люк Хардинг отверг озвученные МИД РФ объяснения причин своей высылки. Об этом высланный из России спецкор сообщил РИА Новости во вторник, 8 февраля”.

Полит.ru: “В новых стандартах образования для старшеклассников математика присутствует в списке обязательных предметов, однако предусмотрены разные уровни ее преподавания”.

Эхо Москвы: “Следствие предъявило обвинение активисту ‘Другой России’ Игорю Березюку в призывах к массовым беспорядкам на Манежной площади”.

Russian news items posted to Russian Notes by Dr. Bruce Holl

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Deutsche Welle: “A German documentary about imprisoned Russian oil czar Mikhail Khodorkovsky is agitating even before its world debut at the Berlin International Film Festival. Thieves have twice stolen film material.”

Interfax: “A Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying Russian Internal Troops servicemen came under fire in the Urus-Martan district in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus, a source in local law enforcement services told Interfax on Tuesday.”

ITAR-TASS: “A terrorism group has been rendered harmless in Bashkortostan, ITAR-TASS learnt at the press centre of the Interior Ministry for the republic on Tuesday.”

RBC: “Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed several Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in connection with the deadly terrorist attack on the Domodedovo Airport, the president’s spokeswoman Natalya Timakova told RBC today.”

RFE/Radio Liberty: “Russia has expelled a journalist for the British newspaper ‘The Guardian.’ The authorities have given no explanation for their action, but the correspondent reported on U.S. diplomatic cables uncovered by WikiLeaks that had angered the government.” RIA Novosti reports that “The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s consular department said on Tuesday he does not know why a Moscow correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian was expelled from the country.”

RIA Novosti: “The Russian Embassy in Japan believes that a bullet mailed to the embassy on Tuesday was sent by either radicals or people with mental problems, an embassy spokesman said.”

Russia Today: “Russia’s most wanted terrorist, Doku Umarov, has claimed he was the mastermind behind January’s bombing at Domodedovo Airport, which took the lives of 36 people and injured more than 180.” The BBC points out that “Mr Umarov is self-styled leader of the ‘Caucasus Emirate’ and is considered the head of the Islamist militant insurgency in the North Caucasus.”

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Би-би-си: “Лидер ‘Эмирата Кавказ’, признанного в России террористической организацией, Доку Умаров взял на себя ответственность за взрыв в московском аэропорту Домодедово 24 января“.

Газета.ru: “Министерство культуры Грузии объявило победителя конкурса на лучший проект мемориала в память жертв августовской войны 2008 года и сталинских репрессий, который будет установлен на месте демонтированного памятника Сталину в Гори, сообщили во вторник агентству «Новости-Грузия» в пресс-службе министерства”.

Газета.ru: “Средний размер взятки, получаемой московскими чиновниками, превышает 500 тысяч рублей. Всего в 2010 году чиновники, наделенные полномочиями по распределению бюджетных средств, нанесли ущерб на 1,5 млрд рублей”.

Лента.ru: “Президенту Дмитрию Медведеву представлен список сотрудников ФСБ, которые должны понести ответственность в связи с терактом в аэропорту ‘Домодедово’. Об этом “Интерфаксу” сообщила пресс-секретарь главы государства Наталья Тимакова”.

NEWSru.com: “Уроженец Дагестана Рамазан Утарбиев – единственный остающийся в розыске участник драки в Москве, в которой убили фаната ФК ‘Спартак’ Егора Свиридова, заявил, что готов ‘сдаться властям’, если ему будут гарантированы “справедливость, правосудие и объективное следствие”.

Эхо Москвы: “По делу о теракте в ‘Домодедово’ арестованы двое соучастников террориста-смертника, – сообщил депутат Васильев со ссылкой на Следственный комитет”.

Russian news items posted to Russian Notes by Dr. Bruce Holl

IN ENGLISH
Bloomberg: “Russian law enforcement agencies will investigate a video posted on the Internet in which a man identified as Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov vowed a ‘year of blood and tears’ for Russia.”

Deutsche Welle: “Two weeks after the suicide bombing at Russia’s largest airport, police have named a suspect and say they are also searching for two young men who disappeared from the suspect’s village days before the attack.”

Interfax: “Moscow is calling on the United States to withdraw its nuclear weapons from Europe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.”

International Herald Tribune: “Two years into a controversial Kremlin-backed experiment to bring post-Soviet education in line with Western practices and introduce standardized nationwide college testing, the Russian version of the American S.A.T. has gathered a number of critics and provoked angry reactions from teachers and parents.”

ITAR-TASS: “The Russian embassy in Tokyo has sent a note to the Japanese Foreign Ministry on Monday, protesting against an act of vandalism against the Russian state flag staged outside the Russian embassy on Monday.” RFE/Radio Liberty, meanwhile, notes that “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today called the Japanese prime minister’s latest remarks on the disputed Kuril islands ‘clearly undiplomatic.’”

RIA Novosti: “The annual Russian Festival of Culture in London will move from Potter Fields Park to a larger stage in Trafalgar Square, the event’s organizers said on Monday.”

Russia Today: “The new Russian opposition People’s Freedom Party (PNS) has held the founding congress of its first regional branch in Moscow. To take part in the parliamentary election in autumn 2011, the party has yet to be registered by the Ministry of Justice.”

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Би-би-си: “МИД РФ считает ‘абсолютно неприемлемой’ ремарку премьер-министра Японии, назвавшего поездки российских чиновников на Южные Курилы ‘непозволительной грубостью'”.

Лента.ru: “В ходе расследования теракта, совершенного 24 января в московском аэропорту ‘Домодедово’, объявлены в розыск двое жителей Ингушетии“.

Полит.ru: “К экспертизе по делу экс-главы ЮКОСа Михаила Ходорковского могут быть привлечены зарубежные эксперты. Об этом сообщила член Совета по развитию гражданского общества и правам человека Тамара Морщакова, которой поручено возглавить экспертную группу, передает ИТАР-ТАСС”.