Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments
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RIA: Berezovsky's lawsuit against Russian broadcaster considered in Londonhttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20100209/157816740.html 02:4809/02/2010 London's High Court on Monday started considering fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky's libel action against a Russian TV broadcaster and an individual. London-based Berezovsky, wanted in Russia on charges of fraud and a coup d'etats plot, filed a lawsuit against the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and against an individual, Vladimir Terluk, in May 2007 after a TV program accused him of his involvement in the poisoning of ex-Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Alexander Litvinenko and of forging a recording to avoid extradition. Litvinenko died in London in November 2006 of polonium-210 poisoning. On his deathbed, he accused then Russian president Vladimir Putin of orchestrating his death, which the Kremlin strongly denied. Terluk appears to have been featured in a TV broadcast in April 2007 on the RTR Planeta channel, available in Britain via satellite, as a man named "Pyotr" interviewed by the Vesti Nedeli (News of the Week) program. The VGTRK broadcaster called the court process that started in London Monday "biased" and "politically tinted." It said that the British court had demanded that VGTRK reveal its information sources, but that after the TV company refused, the court banned the broadcaster from taking part in the court process. "VGTRK officially states that it will not recognize any court rulings on this case and will appeal them up to the European Court," the Russian broadcaster said. Berezovsky refused to comment. LONDON, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
09 February, 2010, 07:37 One of Russia's biggest helicopter manufacturers is starting a new batch of production. Hundreds of internationally acclaimed models have already been ordered from abroad. Among them the legendary Mi24, a “flying tank”, and Mi26, the world’s heaviest helicopter… Russian choppers are occupying the skies above more than 30 countries. But Russia plans to go further, quadrupling its share of the world market within the next five years. And the Ka-32A and Ka-226T are among those that could make this ambition a reality. They can easily operate both in snowy mountains and in the tropics … they can take off from a ship and land in a desert.
The Ka-32A is produced for 20 nations, among them Canada and some of the European countries. But the Ka-226T is just at the beginning of its potential success-story. Sergey Mikryukov from Kumertau aviation production enterprise said the Ka-226T just got on to the short list of an Indian tender for more than 200 choppers:
Both machines are produced at Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise in Russia’s Urals. According to Aleksey Tolmachyov, who also works for the Kumertau aviation production enterprise, they have almost everything they need to produce a helicopter within one factory, from producing tiny parts to assembling the entire machine:
Russia’s helicopter industry, which has been in bad shape since the collapse of the USSR, now seems to be flying high, and is well on course to reach its goal of being a serious player on the global market. The Moscow Times: Mayor Denies Renege on Demolitionhttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/mayor-denies-renege-on-demolition/399298.html 09 February 2010 Combined Reports The Moscow city government denied on Monday that it had given up on its plans to demolish the Fantasy Island luxury settlement, Mayor Yury Luzhkov’s spokesman said Monday. The announcement comes after Vedomosti quoted a source as saying the city had given up on the demolition. Mayor Yury Luzhkov had promised in late January to knock down the luxury housing community, whose residents include Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko and his wife, Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova. “Sports facilities were supposed to be built here, not houses for the complicated people who now live in them. … We’ll certainly go to court, since the builders of the elite village blatantly violated the terms of the investment contract that they signed with the city and that, by the way, is not yet closed,” Luzhkov told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. City authorities said they would begin demolishing Fantasy Island once they were finished bulldozing homes in Rechnik. But last week, a City Hall meeting chaired by the first deputy mayor decided that the houses in the complex had a legal right to be there. “The apartments built at Fantasy Island were initially registered as nonresidential space in buildings for temporary housing, which did not contradict the terms of the investment contract. Then, they were registered as residential space in buildings for temporary housing, and finally, they were registered as ordinary apartments based on documents from the city architecture committee and the Technical Inventory Bureau,” a source told RIA-Novosti.
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