Thursday News Items

Posted on 04/02 by bruceholl

IN ENGLISH
BBC: "A Russian research institute has suggested radical changes to the way the country is run - warning that they are necessary if Russia is to modernise."

BBC: "Russian PM Vladimir Putin has invited his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, to a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. It is the first Russian ceremony to mark the murdering by Soviet secret police of more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war in April 1940."

Bloomberg: "The Russian government will step up its privatization program this year, considering more share sales than previously announced, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said."

Interfax: "The Georgian Public Broadcaster hopes to win litigation in Paris against French company Eutelsat, which suspended satellite services for Georgia's Russian-language television channel, First Caucasian, on January 28."

ITAR-TASS: "The speaker of the State Duma lower house of the Russian parliament, head of the United Russia’s Supreme Council Boris Gryzlov said Federation Council speaker and Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov can re-consider his attitude to Vladimir Putin's policy, and that voters at the next elections will give an assessment of this move." The International Herald Tribune had reported that Mironov, "the speaker of Russia’s upper house of Parliament, set off a barrage of criticism on Monday night when he told a television interviewer that the leaders of his party 'categorically oppose the budget proposed by Vladimir Putin [...]."

RFE/Radio Liberty: "Russia said on February 3 its forces had killed an Egyptian militant in Daghestan who had set up a faction of Al-Qaeda in the volatile southern region."

RIA Novosti: "Russia will mark the 65th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany with its biggest ever post-Soviet demonstration of military hardware, a respected daily said on Thursday."

ПО-РУССКИ
Би-би-си: "Подписание документа, который придет на смену истекшему договору по стратегическим наступательным вооружениям (СНВ), может состояться в марте-апреле, заявил помощник президента России Сергей Приходько".

Ведомости: "Жители поселка «Речник», а также снесенных в 2008 г. поселков «Речники» и «Огородник», подали в Кунцевский суд иск с требованием возместить ущерб на сумму 100 млрд руб., рассказал представитель жителей Владимир Виноградов".

Газета.ru: "Палатки с алкогольной продукцией начнут убирать с московских улиц в 2011 году. Об этом заявил в четверг журналистам руководитель департамента потребительского рынка и услуг столицы Владимир Малышков".

Deutsche Welle: "Сенаторы из доминирующей в РФ партии 'Единая Россия' выступили против отставки Сергея Миронова с поста спикера Совета Федерации из-за его критики отдельных аспектов политики премьер-министра России Владимира Путина и единороссов".

Институт современного развития (ИНСОР): "РОССИЯ XXI ВЕКА: ОБРАЗ ЖЕЛАЕМОГО ЗАВТРА"