Russia & India Report

Bartek the tiger

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:47:00 +0400

Russia wants to supply Ka-226T helicopters to India

RIR — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:18:00 +0400

Rosoboronexport, Russian defence export agency, participates in a tender to supply Ka-226T multi-purpose helicopter to India.

Quadcopter set altitude record flying above Ostankino Tower

Kirikset — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:31:00 +0400

CSKA Moscow win Russian Premier League title

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:23:00 +0400

CSKA Moscow secured the Russian Premier League title with a game to go Saturday after a goalless draw at home to FC Kuban

Russia’s General Staff rejects intervention in Syria

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:00 +0400

Russia’s General Staff is opposed to military intervention in Syria, saying this would be meddling in the war-torn country’s domestic affairs, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov said

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt to promote new film in Moscow

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:00 +0400

Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt is due to arrive in Moscow in June to promote his new film World War Z at the Moscow International Film Festival, the festival’s general producer has said

Four escape through tunnel from prison near Irkutsk

ITAR-TASS — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:10:00 +0400

Four convicts escaped from a high security prison in the settlement of Markovo near Irkutsk on Saturday. They got out through a tunnel made under the main fence, the press service of the federal penitentiary service's regional department said

Education in Russia: Indian students spoilt for choice

Alexander Tomas — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:54:00 +0400

Places as diverse as Moscow, Tver, Volgograd and Vladivostok offer a range of faculties that go beyond the usual suspects of engineering and medicine

Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 +0400

Rosbank Chief Golubkov placed under house arrest

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:45:00 +0400

Rosbank board chairman Vladimir Golubkov, charged with bribery, has been put under house arrest until July 16 despite his plea to be released on 50-mln-ruble ($1.6 mln) bail

Russia to ensure peace in Transdnestr until conflict settlement

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:40:00 +0400

Russia will maintain its peacekeeping contingent in Moldova’s breakaway Transdnestr region until Chisinau and Tiraspol agree on the status of the disputed self-proclaimed republic, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said

Plane catches fire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:37:00 +0400

Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire upon landing, a law enforcement source said. No one was reported injured in the incide

Peru mulls deals to buy Russian helicopters, tanks - Rostec

RIA Novosti — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:00 +0400

Peru is interested in buying 700 Kamaz trucks and a new batch of Mi-8/17 helicopters from Russia, as well as testing the T-90S tank that is currently on display at a defense technology exhibition in Lima, the head of Russia’s delegation to the show s

Moscow, Washington downplay scandal involving US “spy”

Ivan Sukhov — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:22:00 +0400

The Cold War era is long gone, but it might be useful to architects of bilateral relations to keep in mind key priorities and not to let the excesses, such as the latest spy scandal, wreck their strategic plans

Maria Sharapova looks to get over the ‘Serena hurdle’

Grant Kosyan — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:59:00 +0400

The international tennis sensation talks to Kommersant about the on-going WTA season, her playing career and her forays into business

Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan

Stakheev Vladimir — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:26:00 +0400

Museum Night set for Saturday

Kevin O’Flynn — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:15:00 +0400

Museum Night is in its seventh year and more than 200 museums are participating

Norwegian ambassador and Greenpeace bear

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:00 +0400

Road trips off the beaten track

Viktoria Golovkina — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:06:00 +0400

Driving across the vast landmass of Russia in places such as the Arctic Kola Peninsula and the Kalmyk Steppe can be a magical experience

Synertech CEOs arrested in GLONASS embezzlement case

RIA Novosti — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:20:00 +0400

The previous and current general directors of high-tech company Synertech have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling from the GLONASS federal program, the Interior Ministry's Moscow Department said on Friday

Lavrov says he does not understand why media turn Russian arms exports to Syria into sensation

The Voice of Russia — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:17:00 +0400

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he does not understand why the world media have turned deliveries of Russian defensive weapons to Syria into a sensation

Visa-free entry for Sochi Olympians

Roman Vorobyov — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:07:00 +0400

The Russian government will allow 3-month visa-free travel for athletes, coaches, referees and foreign delegations taking part in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games

Moscow unveils first taxi chopper landing

The Voice of Russia — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:03:00 +0400

Moscow is to take the wraps off its first landing facility for helicopter taxis. Located atop the Crocus Expo Center near the Moscow Ring Road, the landing will host both private and business aircraft, offering rides across Russia

Russia seeks to resume negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict - Lavrov

ITAR-TASS — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:52:00 +0400

Russia is trying to resume negotiations on the Arab-Israeli settlement within the framework of the Middle East peace ”quartet”, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Policeman wounded in Ingushetia as suicide bomber blasts self

ITAR-TASS — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:00 +0400

An Ingush policeman was wounded on Friday as a suicide bomber's explosives detonated, regional police told Itar-Tass

Russia boosts emergencies space monitoring

RIA Novosti — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:43:00 +0400

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has finalized deployment of a space monitoring system to help ensuring prompt response to emergency situations in the country, it said on Thursday

Olonkho Epos: An ancient Yakut odyssey

Culture.ru — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:18:00 +0400

In Yakutia, this ancient epic, which forms an integral part of the republic’s ethos, is part of the school curriculum

Last chance to prevent a Mediterranean Somalia

Simon Saradzhyan — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:00 +0400

The Syrian peace conference that Russia and America’s top diplomats have agreed to organize in the next few weeks might be the last chance for this Arab country’s warring factions to find a political solution to their conflict and prevent the sliding

Russian higher education fair returns to India

Priyanka Gera — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:27:00 +0400

The annual fair offers counselling and on-the-spot admissions to some of the leading Russian institutes

Syria down to abyss unless violence stops

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:11:00 +0400

Though acts of violence in the country are committed by both the government forces as well as rebels, the barbarity on the parts of the rebels has defied all human notion of civility, even in conflict

IRIGC agrees to increase Kamaz truck production in India

Dadan Upadhyay — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:42:00 +0400

The co-chairs of the IRIGC are soon expected to receive the proposals on increasing the production of KVML plant at Hosur (Tamil Nadu) in India

Russia looks to boost domestic auto production

Fyodor Kikta — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:53:00 +0400

For the last decade the government had skillfully been using a carrot-and-stick approach to get major auto giants to produce cars (and eventually – car parts) in Russia

Rosbank CEO received over $1 mln in bribes in 2012-2013 - the Investigative Committee

ITAR-TASS — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:17:00 +0400

An RF Interior Ministry official has confirmed that Vladimir Golubkov, Rosbank Chairman of the Board, and Tamara Polyanitsyna, Senior Vice-President of the credit-and-finacial institution, are involved in a criminal case

Moscow police detain suspect in 3 million euro theft case

ITAR-TASS — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:14:00 +0400

Law-enforcement agents detained a member of an international criminal group suspected of stealing money from safety deposit boxes at banks, the press service of the Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday

All six victims of fire on ship in Wakkanai port were Russians

ITAR-TASS — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:12:00 +0400

All six victims of the fire that broke out on Thursday morning on the Taigan vessel anchored in the Japanese port of Wakkanai were citizens of Russia, and the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo on Hokkaido Island intends to monitor the progress of

Carmakers turn to BRICS for growth

Alexander Panin — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:00 +0400

Despite a moderate downturn in car sales seen in Russia from the beginning of the year, the country is a critical automobile market, which is projected to surpass Germany in the future

Urals regions to establish major tourist venture

Natalya Ruleva — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:43:00 +0400

The venture will seek to provide tourists with the most interesting interregional itineraries

Surkov welcomes Fursenko as possible Skolkovo supervisor

RIA Novosti — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:30:00 +0400

Russia’s former Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov welcomed reports that ex-minister Andrei Fursenko may be appointed to oversee the Skolkovo innovation hub for the presidential administration

Russia to send ‘stress-relief’ software to space station

RIA Novosti — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:26:00 +0400

A flash drive with stress-relief software for crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) will be taken to space by Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin soon

Russian manufacturer offers Peru T-90S tank

RIA Novosti — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:24:00 +0400

Russia’s Uralvagonzavod plant is prepared to provide Peru with a full-scale specimen of its T-90S, a main battle tank currently on show at a defense expo in Lima, a representative of the manufacturer said on Thursday

Soviet dissident's poems published in English

Phoebe Taplin — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:24:00 +0400

Alexander Vvedensky's work challenges poetry lovers, yet at moments he reminds literary critic Phoebe Taplin of T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Shelley

Russian Kitchen: More summer salads

Elena Revinskaya — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:53:00 +0400

RIR presents more easy-to-prepare treats that can be made in India all-year long

Moscow Metro marks 78 anniversary

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:15:00 +0400

China passes to Russia H7N9 virus strain

ITAR-TASS — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:39:00 +0400

China has passed to Russia the H7N9 virus strain, head of the Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service (Rospotrebnadzor) Gennady Onishchenko said at a press conference at Itar-Tass on Wednesday

Russia in Top 5 for generated YouTube traffic

RIA Novosti — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:31:00 +0400

Russia is among the top five countries in terms of volume of generated traffic on YouTube, Google's Vice President and Global Head of Content at YouTube Robert Kyncl told a news conference on Wednesday

CIS Security Services to track Syria mercenaries - FSB

RIA Novosti — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:28:00 +0400

The security services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states will be closely monitoring the movement of mercenaries from CIS nations fighting in Syria, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said on We

5 questions on Russian S-300 missile system sales to Syria

Alexey Eremenko — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:53:00 +0400

If fresh media reports are true, Russia may soon provide Damascus – or already has – with advanced S-300 air defense systems, tipping the balance in the devastating 26-month conflict. But the “if” is a big one

Indo-Russian children pursue showbiz dreams

Elena Krovvidi — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:59:00 +0400

RIR presents a couple inspiring examples of young people from Indo-Russian families who let their talents sparkle and follow their dreams despite several obstacles

Hardships of growing up in the USSR

Elena Revinskaya — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:00 +0400

Bangalore-based Elena Revinskaya reflects on the difficulties she faced in Soviet Siberia just before the fall of the communist regime