Special Search

Tag >protests

Lower house moves towards raising fines for illegal rallies

May 23, 2012 RT.com

Russia’s State Duma has approved in the first reading a bill introducing tougher punishment for organizing and taking part in illegal protests.

Muscovites walked for control

May 14, 2012 Russky Repoter

Thousands of people responded to a call by Russian writer Boris Akunin to march in central Moscow to support those detained during the recent rallies

Opposition to hold flashmob on Inauguration Day

May 6, 2012 RIA Novosti

Russia’s opposition will on May 7, the day of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as president, hold a flashmob rally, activists said in a message on Saturday.

After India, Russians protest against Norway's child services

March 22, 2012 Combined reports

Scores of people have demonstrated against Norway demanding the release of 15 Russians children, who like the two Indian kids were taken into protective custody by the Scandinavian nation's child services.

Closing the gap: US, Russia 'converge on Syria'

March 15, 2012 RT.com

The American and Russian positions on Syria are starting to converge – or at least that’s what the US State Department thinks, according to spokesperson Victoria Nuland.

Authorities cracked down the opposition

March 6, 2012 RIA Novosti

Police detained several opposition activists including vocal anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny and leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov during the rally in Pushkin Square in central Moscow

The plot behind ‘Sabotage Kudankulam’

March 5, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha

Fundamentalist Christian churches and remote-controlled NGOs are the new WMDs – workers of mass disruption. Their first big hit: the Kudankulam nuclear plant.

Authorities, opposition left with lessons

March 5, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky

Several rallies are scheduled to be held today in central Moscow. Neither the authorities nor the opposition really understood what the protestors who have taken to the streets since Dec. 4 actually wanted

Figuring out Russia’s political future

March 2, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines

Russia Beyond the Headlines asked the experts and representatives of political forces if Russia will see an escalation of protests and a "tightening of the screws" after the presidential elections

How long will the Kudankulam deadlock last?

March 2, 2012 Dadan Upadhyay

Tamil Nadu protests may hit India-Russia nuclear “roadmap”

Indian police have deported German national

March 2, 2012 The Voice of Russia

Sonnteg Reiner Herman is suspected of financing protest campaigns against the launch of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which is being built in cooperation with Russia

The US stirs up trouble for Russia in India

March 1, 2012 Vladimir Skosyrev, Nezavisimaya Gazeta

A protest campaign is being waged against nuclear energy

German arrested for funding anti-Kudankulam protest

February 28, 2012 The Voice of Russia

In India, a German national, Sonnteg Reiner Hermann, has been arrested for funding protests against the construction of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, - the main project of Russian-Indian nuclear power cooperation.

Americans in Tamil Nadu

February 27, 2012 RIR

Investigation proves that a number of NGOs are involved in the Kudankulam protests

Kamaz India plant paralyzed by strike

February 23, 2012 RIA Novosti

The Indian plant of the Russian leading truck maker Kamaz has been paralyzed by a strike for over a month, Kamaz Director for India Operations Alexei Agibalov said on Tuesday.

Russia uneasy on idle Kudankulam team

February 15, 2012 Combined reports

In a new turn to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) issue, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M Kadakin on Tuesday said it would be difficult to allow his country’s nuclear experts to idle away their time for long at the project site vie

No political prisoners in Russia - Putin

February 7, 2012 RIA Novosti

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed the idea of a political amnesty because there are no political prisoners in the country.

Western draft resolution on Syria in UN SC unacceptable for Russia

January 27, 2012 ITAR-TASS

Russia does consider it possible to vote for an uncoordinated Western draft resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Itar-Tass on Friday.

45% of voters support Putin for president

January 20, 2012 The Moscow TImes

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin currently has the support of 45% of the population in his effort to become president, according to the latest poll by the Public Opinion Fund.

Sberbank CEO sees no possibility of orange revolution in Russia

January 20, 2012

Russia isn’t in danger of a revolution from demonstrations against alleged fraud in parliamentary elections last month and the government is “on the right track” in responding to them, the head of the country’s biggest bank said.

1 2 3