Tag Archive for Russia

| November 6, 2013
One comment

New Russian law requires terrorists’ relatives pay for damages

Under the new law just signed by Putin, all damages – including moral damage – should be compensated “at the expense of the means of the person committing the terrorist act and also at the expense of the means of his [or her] family, relatives and close people.”

By RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that forces relatives of terrorists to pay for damages caused by their attacks. It also boosts penalties for launching, participating, or financing militant or terrorist groups.

A handout photo provided on October 21, 2013 by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows a bus damaged by explosion in the city of Volgograd (RIA Novosti-Press-service of Russian Emergen)

A handout photo provided on October 21, 2013 by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows a bus damaged by explosion in the city of Volgograd (RIA Novosti-Press-service of Russian Emergen)

 

Under the law, all damages – including moral damage – should be compensated “at the expense of the means of the person committing the terrorist act and also at the expense of the means of his [or her] family, relatives and close people.” Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
| September 6, 2013
No comments

Moscow warns IAEA on danger of Syrian nuclear site if attacked

 

Russian calls on UN nuclear watchdog to assess danger of possible hit to Syrian research reactor that contains radioactive uranium, if “by design or by chance”.

By REUTERS

 

 

 

VIENNA – The UN nuclear watchdog has received a request from Russia to assess the impact if a missile were to hit a small Syrian reactor and is considering the issue, the Vienna-based agency said on Friday.

The N. Korea reactor in Yongbyon, the Syrian site.

The N. Korea reactor in Yongbyon, the Syrian site. – Photo: REUTERS

Russia said this week a military strike on Syria could have catastrophic effects if the research reactor near Damascus that contains radioactive uranium was struck, “by design or by chance”.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
| August 29, 2013
No comments

Russian leader: The West acts ‘like a monkey with a grenade’…again

China reminds everyone how the current affair ‘is reminiscent of the lead-up to the Iraqi War,’ which was also based on allegations that proved false.

As Moscow sends emergency supplies to Damascus the Russian deputy premier criticizes the looming Western attack on Syria.

By Dan Lavie and News Agencies

 

Russian officials on Tuesday unleashed scathing criticism of the looming U.S.-led strike on Syria.

Critical of the West: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin – Photo: Reuters

“The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin posted on his Twitter account.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
| August 15, 2013
No comments

Russia to donate $1 million to Auschwitz conservation fund

 

24 countries have contributed thus far. Germany has contributed $80 million, followed by the U.S. with $15 million. Poland, where the camp is located, has promised about $13 million, according to Polskie Radio.

 

Russia will contribute up to $1 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation for the conservation and maintenance of the site of the former Nazi concentration camp.

Auschwitz beds for 6-8 people – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Russia’s pledge was reported Tuesday by the Polskie Radio website, which cited a statement issued by the Russian Embassy in Warsaw. Support for the project, the statement said, is “a common moral duty as it serves the mission of preserving the memory of the huge number of victims of the Nazi camp and of other crimes against humanity.”

Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags: ,
| June 7, 2013
No comments

Russia war flotilla move to the Mediterranean

 

President Vladimir Putin sent 16 warships, three ship-based helicopters to the region, saying, “This is a strategically important region and we have tasks to carry out there to provide for the national security of the Russian Federation”.

By Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Russia has deployed a naval unit in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since the Soviet era, a move Russian President Vladimir Putin says is aimed at defending Russian security, but which comes as Moscow faces off with the West over Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: Deployment is not “saber-rattling” and not meant as a threat to any nation – Photo: AP

Russia’s military chief of staff said on Thursday that Russia had stationed 16 warships and three ship-based helicopters in the region.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: ,
| June 7, 2013
No comments

Putin: Russia prepared to replace Austrian (UN) peacekeepers in Golan Heights

Putin commits Russian troops just a day after Vienna announced it would recall its forces from the UN monitoring force, due to worsening fighting in Syria.

By , and Reuters
 

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is ready to send peacekeepers to the Golan Heights to replace Austrian forces after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a UN monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria.

Quneitra

Clashes at Quneitra on the Israel-Syria border caused brush fire that crossed into Israel. – Photo: Gil Eliyahu

“We could replace the leaving Austrian contingent in this region on the border between Israeli troops and the Syrian army,” Putin told the RIA Novosti news agency. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , , , , ,
| June 2, 2013
No comments

Iran to sue Russia for not supplying S-300 missiles

 

Tehran reportedly sues Russian arms-export company Rosoboronexport for $4 billion in an int’l court in Switzerland, & will only drop the suit if Moscow supplies them with the 5 battalions of the advanced S-300 systems that were ordered.

By Israel Hayom Staff, Shlomo Cesana, Yoni Hirsch, & Eli Leon

Iran is suing Russia over its cancellation of a sale of the advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile system, which they had signed to do in 2007 but pulled out of after U.S. and Israeli pressure, according to a report by Russian news outlet Novosti on Friday.

S-300 anti-air missile system mounted on a trailer – Photot: Reuters

According to the report, Iran is pushing forth with a $4 billion lawsuit against Russian arms-export company Rosoboronexport in an international court in Switzerland, and will only drop their suit if Russia supplies them with five batteries of the advanced S-300 system.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
| May 31, 2013
No comments

Moscow to sell at least 10 advanced MiG-29 fighter jets to Assad

 

Russian jet manufacturer Sergei Korotkov says his company signed contract to deliver MiG fighters to Damascus. Meanwhile, Russian news affiliates refute Assad’s assertions that he’s already received shipment.

News agencies

Russian arms manufacturer says it is signing a contract to deliver at least 10 fighter jets to Syria.

Russian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29M-2 - Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Russian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29M-2 – Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Sergei Korotkov, general director of the MiG company that makes the jets, told Russian news agencies Friday that a Syrian delegation was in Moscow to discuss terms and deadlines of a new contract supplying MiG-29 M/M2 fighters to Syria.

Korotkov did not say how many MiGs Syria were buying, but says it would be “more than 10.” Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
| May 28, 2013
No comments

Moscow to arm Assad with S-300 missiles to prevent ‘foreign’ (Israeli) intervention

Top Russian official says Russia will commence with sale of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Assad’s army.

Israeli Defense Minister Ya’alon says that if advanced weapon systems reach Syria, Israel will respond.

By , Gili Cohen and Reuters

A top Russian diplomat confirmed that Moscow will provide Syria with state-of-the art air defense missiles to prevent foreign intervention in the country

A Russian S-300 in Moscow.

A Russian S-300 in Moscow. – Photo: AP

 

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov wouldn’t say whether Russia has shipped any of the long-range S-300 air defense missile systems, but added that Moscow isn’t going to abandon the deal despite strong Western and Israeli criticism. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: , , , ,
| May 9, 2013
No comments

Report: Israel briefed US on planned Russian advanced-missile sale to Syria

 

WSJ reports Israel informed the U.S. that Russia has sold advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile batteries to Syria, making any future no-fly zone impossible.

Intel comes a day after Kerry left Moscow.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Israel has warned the U.S. that Russia plans to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria despite Western pressure on Moscow to hold off on such a move, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

A Russian S-300 missile battery – Photo: Russian Defense Ministry

The newspaper said U.S. officials had confirmed they were analyzing the Israeli reports, but would not comment on whether they believed the sale of S-300 missile batteries was near.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
| February 20, 2013
No comments

Putin Disregards US Court: Refuses to Relinquish Archive to Chabad

Vladimir Putin says Russia will not comply to a U.S. District Court verdict by returning a disputed 18th Century Jewish archive to the U.S., saying doing so, would “open a Pandora’s box”.

By Elad Benari

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he refused to return a historic but disputed Jewish archive to the United States because doing so would “open a Pandora’s box”, AFP reports.

Russian President Vladimir PutinPutin spoke after a U.S. judge slapped a daily fine of $50,000 on Moscow last month for its failure to comply with a 2010 order to return the sacred texts.

Putin’s international cultural cooperation representative Mikhail Shvydko said at the time that the ruling “doomed” the chances of the archive ever being sent to the United States. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| January 17, 2013
No comments

Russia Slams US Court Ordered Fine, Over Disputed Jewish Archive

Russian official criticized the ruling by a U.S. District Judge to fine Moscow $50,000 a day for failing to return a historic Jewish library seized in Poland, to the Chabad-Lubavitch.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has criticized a ruling by a United States judge to fine Moscow $50,000 a day for its failure to return a historic but disputed Jewish library to the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish group.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court ruled Wednesday that Russia should pay the fine until it complies with the 2010 order to return the collection of tens of thousands of religious books and manuscripts, some hundreds of years old, to the Chabad-Lubavitch group based in Brooklyn, New York. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| January 16, 2013
No comments

US Justice Dept. refuses Chabad’s petition to fine Russia over confiscated Judaica

Russia resists saying it does not recognize the authority of the U.S. court, and insists the collection is part of the country’s heritage.

By JTA

 

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement asked a U.S. judge to fine Russia for refusing to hand over confiscated Jewish scriptures, but the U.S. Justice Department opposed the move.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

According to the Associated Press, Chabad lawyer Seth Gerber last week asked Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington to fine Russia for not transferring tens of thousands of religious books and manuscripts about the group’s core teachings from its state library and military archive. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| December 24, 2012
No comments

Russia: Assad consolidated chemical weapons into 1 or 2 sites

 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “The Syrian gov’t has concentrated the stockpiles in 1 or 2 centers, unlike in the past when they were scattered across the country”

Report says Russia & the U.S. have given 2 options to Assad: Step down & receive asylum, or a transfer of power will be arranged without you.

By News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

The U.S. and Russia have come to an agreement on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report in the London-based international Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.

The message given to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Either step down from power, or be sidestepped out of power.

Continue Reading »
Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
| December 7, 2012
No comments

NATO to station Patriot missiles to protect Turkey from spillover

After the alliance’s decision to station defensive missile system to protect Turkey from spillover, Russia accuses NATO of embroiling itself into Syrian affairs.

By REUTERS

 

BRUSSELS – Russia accused NATO on Friday of moving towards involvement in the Syrian conflict, three days after the alliance decided to station Patriot missiles to protect Turkey from spillover from the violence.

Patriot anti-missile battery site

Patriot anti-missile battery site – Photo: Reuters

The charge came from Russia’s new ambassador to NATO, and came in spite of NATO assurances that the Patriots, which will be placed near Turkey’s border with Syria, are intended purely for defensive purposes.

“This is not a threat to us, but this is an indication that NATO is moving towards engagement and that’s it,” Alexander Grushko told reporters. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
« Older Entries   Recent Entries »