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Anti-Putin protesters, opposition leaders arrested in Moscow

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:11:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A Monday night Moscow protest of 5-8,000 people, followed by thousands taking to the streets Tuesday, has led to 600 people being arrested, according to Russian state media. Those pulled in by police include opposition leaders, liberal Boris Nemtsov and liberal party Yabloko head Sergei Mitrokhin among them, as well as well-known [...]

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Elections: Russians out of love with Putin, Egyptian runoffs begin

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:59:35 +0000

GenevaLunch.com High turnout in Egypt, with new Islamist group taking 24% GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russians appear to be falling out of love with former leader Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and turnout has been high, 62 percent, in Egyptian voting as parts of the country move into runoffs in a complex voting system. Vladimir Putin’s United [...]

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Swiss and Dutch “least likely to bribe” abroad

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:21:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss companies share first place at the bottom of the list, but for a change this is a good thing: the list is Transparency International’s (TI) rankings of countries most likely to bribe abroad. Russia heads the list, with China close behind. The last two invested $120 billion overseas in 2010. The [...]

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China, Russia veto UN resolution on Syria

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:24:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – China and Russia used their vetoes in the UN Security Council late Tuesday to stop a United Nations draft resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria. It would have been the first such UN decision since March, when President Bashar Assad’s military regime began using tanks and soldiers to crack down on protester. [...]

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Moscow reportedly set to write off N Korean debt

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:43:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Russian government is reportedly ready to write off $11 billion in North Korea’s mainly Soviet era debt, reports Izvestia. The move would follow previous similar action over North Vietnam’s debt, for example, with the debt converted into a mix of investment and repayment in goods and services. The move acknowledges that [...]

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A year without sex for Russian town (possibly not true)

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:08:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Urban myths die hard and the one about bromine being used by the Soviet Union to suppress its soldiers’ sexual urges lingered long after it proved to have no factual basis. But jokes based on the old stories were about the only cheerful thing in Chelyabinsk this weekend, reports the Moscow Times, [...]

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US praises Human Rights Council resolution calling for Syrian abuses to end

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:15:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US Ambassador to the UN Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe was quick to praise a resolution condemning Syria, taken by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council Tuesday 23 August. The council also agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to further investigate the human rights situation in Syria. The vote was 33 in [...]

Russia’s Magnitsky corruption investigation continues after his death

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:19:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russian authorities look set to continue their investigation into the affairs of Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in prison in November 2009, after the Heritage Capital lawyer spent 11 months in prison, in pre-trial detention. He was arrested on tax evasion charges, reports the Moscow Times, after he “accused several [...]

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Chinese and Russians failed to seal gas deal

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:41:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Five years of Chinese-Russian talks and the promise of a nearly done deal were not enough to put ink on paper and seal what would be “one of the largest energy deals in history” worth billions of dollars, as the Moscow Times puts it. The two appeared so close to agreement that [...]

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Plane crash in Russia kills 44

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:26:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Forty-four people died and eight survivors are hospitalized with serious injuries, Russian media are reporting, when a RussAir Tu-134 airplane crashed in the northern republic of Karelie. The dead include four foreigners, a Swedish and a Dutch citizen and two Ukrainians, and a family of four with dual US-Russian citizenship, according to [...]