Topic: Russia
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in India Friday where he is slated to sign a series of multibillion-dollar arms deals with Moscow's old Cold War ally. According to Russian officials, Putin will sign more than a dozen pacts Friday worth around 10 billion dollars, including an accord to resolve the troubled sale of a refitted Soviet-era aircraft carrier ...
THE INTERNET'S `ENEMIES': A dozen countries were deemed by Reporters Without Borders to be the most repressive at censorship. THE CHANGES: The list is the same from last year, but the group finds China, Iran and Tunisia more sophisticated at censorship. THE WATCH LIST: Several countries are ...
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Maxim Petlin heads a prominent political party in a major Russian province straddling the Ural mountains, but he will not be on the ballot for regional parliamentary elections on Sunday. His Western-leaning Yabloko party was barred on technical grounds, a move Petlin believes was aimed at keeping Kremlin critics out of the vote -- one of hundreds of ...
