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04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Environmental groups and California Attorney General Jerry Brown have asked the U.S. government to require oceangoing ships to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Chinese 10-Year Old Takes Chilly Swim

BEIJING (AP) - A father tied his 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet

African Flood Crisis, La Niña Returns, Blue Whale Deaths, North Island Eruption, Tropical Cyclones, Earthquakes, Mutant Frogs Explained

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Foreign Investors Eye Sochi Deals

By Dario Thuburn
Agence France Presse
SOCHI - Looking out over the Caucasus mountains from his busy construction site, British property developer Tom Rawlins has reason to feel more than a little pleased with himself.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Korean Leaders Call for Peace Treaty

By Jonathan Thatcher
Reuters
Leaders of the two Koreas agreed on Thursday to try to bring peace to the Cold War's last frontier, just a day after the North signed up to an international deal to disable its nuclear facilities.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

‘The Chinese Octopus'

By Yevgeny Rumyantsev
China has a unique, rich and long history, but very little is known about the history of its secret services or their activities at home and abroad. Today, all of these structures are also active on Russian territory.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Yushchenko Urges Feuding Parties To Negotiate

By Ron Popeski
Reuters
President Viktor Yushchenko ordered Ukraine's three bickering parties on Wednesday to strike their own deal on a post-election government, a move likely to aggravate a deadlock that has stalled economic reforms.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

No End to Ukraine's Political Turmoil in Sight, Experts Say

By Anna Arutunyan
Talks to build a coalition began Thursday as the final ballots came rolling in following Ukraine's Sunday vote. With 99.95 percent of ballots counted as of Thursday afternoon, the pro-Russian Regions Party led with 34.35 percent, with Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc close behind with 30.73. President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine followed with just 14.16. percent.

Russia celebrates Sputnik anniversary © AP

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Sputnik's Legacy

By Kirill Bessonov
This week Russia celebrates the anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik-1, an event that many hold to be the Soviet Union's most important victory in the international arena of science and technology competition. The landmark event was a heady cocktail of scientific experiment, military might, and pure propaganda. But determining the primary objective of the launch is not a simple question.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

U.S. Study Supports Russia's AMD Suspicions

By Desmond Butler
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A number of top U.S-based physicists have concluded that the United States used inaccurate claims to reassure NATO allies about U.S. missile defense plans in Eastern Europe.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Crowne Plaza Invigorates Trade Center

By Tom Washington
Moscow is famed as a playground for the business elite. Oligarchs, oil tsars and foreign investors all converge upon this cornucopia of opportunity and its growing services, where business savvy can exploit the market and people will pay well for a good product.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Food Kiosks A Thing of the Past?

Tom Washington and Olga Yakimenko
Last Tuesday Mayor Luzhkov submitted a formal time-frame to the Moscow Government to remove food kiosks from the streets. In 2004, these establishments were banned around Metro entrances. Since then, there has been heated speculation that the shops would be forbidden on Moscow streets altogether.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Crime in brief

American Sentenced to 9 Years, Man Arrested After Brawl on Aeroflot Flight, Mysterious Knife Robberies Hit Moscow

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

In brief

Russia, U.S. to Cooperate on Space Trips, Ukraine Calls on UN to Denounce 1930s Famine, Litvinenko Suspect Sues Russian Newspaper, Many Feared Dead as Plane with Russian Crew Crashes in Kinshasa

helicopter fights fire over burning Moscow Institute © RIA Novosti

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Arson Suspected in Deadly Moscow Fire

The Moscow News
Nine people were killed and about 50 injured in a fire that destroyed the Institute of State and Corporate Management building on Tuesday. The following day, a fire official told reporters that the head of the institute had received threats in the past, and that the investigation was leaning toward the possibility of arson.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Political Infighting Rattles Georgia

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia's hawkish former defense minister was detained on corruption charges Thursday, days after he alleged that President Mikhail Saakashvili had ordered him to kill a prominent businessman.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Armed Men Caught on Way to Iraq

By Kirill Bessonov
In late September, police in the South Russian Orenburg Region detained four individuals whom they initially considered ordinary cattle rustlers. To the law enforcers' surprise, the detained appeared to be well armed Muslim extremists who claimed they were heading to Iraq to fight the American occupational forces.

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

In brief

Volvo to Start Plant Construction in Russia, Russia's Oil Export Duty at All-Time High, Gazprom Eyes Ankara Gas Tender, Potanin to Buy 100 Percent of Interros Stock

04/10/2007 | Moscow News,№39 2007

Moscow to Invest in Literacy, Reading

By Sergei Dmitriyev
Moscow will work out a program to support and promote reading among young people. The project is slated to cost 112 billion rubles ($5.5 billion), city officials told RIA Novosti.

27/09/2007 | Moscow News,№38 2007

Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet

Meteorite Sickens Town, Bats Suffer Cold Summer, Radioactivity Shield, Tropical Cyclones, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Long-Haul Record

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