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Written by admin on 29 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian man who claims to heal people over phone and whose book is on the government list of extremist materials was the first to submit his nomination papers for the next Russian president.
Nikolai Levashov is the author of ‘Russia in Distorting Mirrors’, which is banned for its negative depiction of Jews and for inciting religious hatred, according to the Kommersant business daily.
Levashov, however, needs to collect two million signatures if he is to be registered as a candidate, said Nikolai Konkin, secretary of the Central Election Commission.
Levashov calls himself an academic and a healer.
He has posted scans of diplomas from ‘obscure’ institutions and academies on his website that includes the Academy of Sciences of Integrated Security, the International Academy of Family Medicine, International Academy of Information and International Academy of Energy Sciences.
He also claims on his website that he can cure many diseases over phone.
The presidential polls are scheduled to take place March 4, 2012.
The ruling United Russia party nominated Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as its presidential candidate. Incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev supports this bid.
Communists have said they would nominate the party’s leader Gennady Zyuganov as their presidential candidate.
Candidates nominated by registered political parties do not need to collect signatures to be registered.
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Written by admin on 28 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A group of stockbrokers has been arrested in Russia for illegally diverting 100 billion rubles (around $3.2 billion) into offshore accounts.
However, the exact number of people arrested was not revealed by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The group, led by Roman Nedyalkov, ‘consisted of several professional participants of the stock market’, the FSB said in a statement Monday.
The men face up to seven years in jail for illegal banking activities.
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Written by admin on 28 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The bodies of three teenagers aged between 15 and 16 were found Monday inside a car in a garage in Moscow. They apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning, an official said.
The teenagers died six hours before they were found, the official said.
There was no evidence of violence.
It was later found that the mother of one of the dead teenagers owned the one-car garage located in Moscow’s Zelenograd district.
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Written by admin on 27 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Arab League Sunday approved sanctions against Syria in the latest bid to dissuade the Bashar Assad regime from its crackdown on dissent.
There has been mounting international pressure on Syria to end its bloody crackdown on anti-government protests.
More than 3,500 people are believed to have been killed since the protests against President Bashar al-Assad began in March.
Nineteen of the regional bloc’s 22 member nations voted in favour of the unprecedented sanctions at a meeting in Cairo. Iraq, Lebanon and Algeria voted against the move.
Damascus, which is already under US and EU sanctions, denounced the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem accused the Arab League of trying to ‘internationalise’ the conflict in Syria.
The body suspended Syria earlier this month.
Speaking at a news conference after the crucial vote, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said the sanctions include cutting off transactions with the Syrian central bank and halting Arab government funding for projects in Syria.
‘In these decisions we aim at avoiding any sufferings of the Syrian people,’ al Jazeera TV quoted Sheikh Hamad as saying. ‘We want to make sure these decisions are not hitting the Syrian people, whether directly or indirectly.’
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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Written by admin on 27 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was officially nominated as a candidate for the March 2012 presidential elections at a United Russia party congress at Moscow’s Luzhniki Arena Sunday.
All the 614 delegates from United Russia and Putin’s All-Russia People’s Front movement, who took part in the vote, supported Putin’s candidacy.
‘My entire life, without exaggeration, has been aimed at serving our fatherland,’ Putin told his supporters after his nomination was announced. ‘Our motto is ‘Never look back!’ Thank you… We will win together’.
The congress took place a week before parliamentary elections due Dec 4.
The presidential election campaign officially started in Russia Saturday, with the polls scheduled to take place March 4, 2012.
Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev announced their plans in mid-October to swap jobs. Medvedev, who will lead United Russia in parliamentary polls Dec 4, is expected to become Russia’s new prime minister after his presidential term expires.
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Written by admin on 27 November 2011
Moscow, Nov 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A 37-year-old Russian woman has been sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking, the Russian embassy in Beijing said.
However, the sentence will be delayed for two years.
Marina Lopatina, a resident of Khabarovsk, was found guilty of trying to smuggle two kg heroin from China’s special administrative region of Macao to the mainland.
A court in China’s Zhuhai city announced the sentence Nov 23, the embassy said Saturday.
This brings the number of Russian citizens on death row for drug-trafficking in China to seven.
Under Chinese law, an attempt to smuggle 50 grams or more of drugs is punishable with the death penalty.
However, death sentences for drug-trafficking are often commuted to life imprisonment if the convicts show full remorse for their actions.
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