| 2011-12-15 17:08 Don't provoke protesters, ex-minister Kudrin tells Putin |
Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
American director Woody Allen began shooting his latest movie in Paris on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.” 
After Wimbledon Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova came to Belarus. 
Widows of Russian submariners to have no money · 2007-02-18 14:33
A Moscow court on Friday rejected a suit by four widows for damages from Russia's Ministry of Defense over the deaths of their sailor husbands when their submarine sank in 2003.
The four had demanded that the ministry pay each of them 1 million roubles ($38,120) for "moral damage" on the grounds that it failed to assure the safety of the nine servicemen killed. The court is due to explain its decision next week.
The K-159's sinking in stormy Arctic seas dealt another blow to Russia's naval prestige, already tarnished by the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine in 2000, in which 118 seamen died.
The 40-year-old K-159 was being towed to port to be broken up when heavy seas flooded through open hatches. Only one crew member survived, Mosnews informs.
Naval officials said the disaster could have been avoided if all officers had followed orders. In 2004 a Russian admiral was convicted of responsibility for the K-159 deaths. He protested his innocence.
• Third bird flu site in Moscow Region
• Russian farmer is suspected to have bird flu
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