| 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. 
Russia's military capacity to be strengthened · 2007-07-26 15:01
Russia's president Vladimir V. Putin said Wednesday that he intended to strengthen Russia's military capacity and to step up spying abroad in response to plans by the United States to build missile defense sites and deploy troops in Central Europe.
"The situation in the world and internal political interests require the Foreign Intelligence Service to permanently increase its capabilities, primarily in the field of information and analytical support for the country's leadership," Mr. Putin said at a meeting with senior military and security officers in remarks that were posted on the Kremlin's Web site.
The Foreign Intelligence Service is a successor agency to the K.G.B., New York Times reports.
Mr. Putin did not identify what nations would be the targets of the expanded effort, but officials in the United States and Britain said recently that Russia had intensified its spying in those countries.
• Elena Vesnina helps Russia to defeat U.S.
• "Georgia is starting to suffer from hallucinations"
|
|
|