Vladimir Putin to hold televised Q&A session
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03:41 16/12/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will answer questions from the nation during his annual Q&A session on Thursday.
During his ninth live phone-in entitled A Conversation with Vladimir Putin — Continued, the premier is expected discuss xenophobia, pensions, dilapidated housing, kindergartens, gasification and the 2018 World Cup.
The question-and-answer session will begin at noon and will be broadcast by the Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24 TV channels. It will also be aired by the Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii radio stations .
Questions may be submitted by telephone, via the Internet or by text message, and will be registered until the end of the live broadcast. The Focus of past Q&A sessions has generally been on social problems.
Last year's Q&A session was held on December 3, 2009. It took Putin slightly more than four hours to answer the more than 90 questions given to him.
MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
Putin To Field Questions From Russians
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December 16, 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will field questions from Russians today during a TV broadcast that has become an annual event.
Putin is expected to highlight Russia's recovery from the worst economic crisis in a decade, with 3.8 percent growth in 2010.
His spokesman says Putin was also likely to touch on ethnic tensions that provoked clashes with police in Moscow last week.
His aides, however, say there is little chance Putin will signal if he will run again for
president in 2012.
Personnel changes at the Federal Penitentiary Service
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December 16, 2010, 09:00
The President signed a decree to release from office and appointment of officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
Full text of the Decree:
1. To release Major General of Internal Service Viktor Alekseevich Malkov from the post of Chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Republic of Mordovia.
2. To appoint:
lieutenant colonel of internal service Andrey Leonidovich Vinogradov - the chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Vladimir region;
colonel of internal service Oleg Simchenkov - head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Republic of Mordovia.
3. This Decree shall enter into force upon signature.
Police in southern Russia detain over 50 to prevent ethnic riots
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11:51 16/12/2010
Over 50 people were detained overnight in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar in a bid by police to prevent race-hate riots, a local police spokesman said on Thursday.
"More than 50 people were taken to police stations for public order offences," the spokesman said, adding that a number of weapons, including knives, axes and traumatic guns were seized.
Police were on alert on Wednesday in anticipation of a planned unsanctioned public protest against the death of football fan Yegor Sviridov, 28, in a brawl in Moscow with migrants Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus region last week.
Demonstrators were expected to gather at the city's Kuban stadium, where a wreath laying ceremony was planned in honor of Svirdov. Police also arrested youths who tried to convene in other parts of the city.
"Police clamped down on any attempts to destabilize the situation and provoke a conflict; they prevented fights and mass disturbances of public order," Ilya Shakalov said.
The killing of the fan provoked race-hate riots and attacks on migrants in Moscow and St. Petersburg over the weekend. In Moscow, a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police near Red Square.
Police detained over 1,300 people in the capital on Wednesday amid fears of fresh riot outbreaks.
KRASNODAR, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
12/16 12:14 Police thwart nationalist march in Udmurtia; five detained
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Medvedev praises Moscow police for professional actions
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16.12.2010, 04.06
MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has praised the Moscow police for its professionalism in preventing violence in the capital on Wednesday, December 15.
“Yesterday, the Moscow police acted professionally. They need some rest. You need it too. Good night,” Medvedev wrote in his twitter in the Internet on Thursday.
Viktor Biryukov, the press service chief of the Moscow Interior Department, said the Moscow police had detained about 800 people in the Russian capital on Wednesday, December 15, in a bid to thwart unlawful actions. He said police had prevented clashes among groups of young people and that the situation in Moscow was under control.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said police would harshly suppress any manifestations of violence in Moscow streets. He also urged “hot heads” not to yield to provocations.
Kremlin official denounces Moscow riots
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08:00 16/12/2010
Russian deputy presidential chief of staff Vladislav Surkov condemned the recent riots in Moscow in an interview with the Izvestia paper.
The Russian capital saw its biggest public disturbances for almost a decade on Saturday as a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police near Red Square. Rioters also attacked people from the country's North Caucasus region in protest against the death of football fan Yegor Sviridov in a brawl with North Caucasus migrants.
"Disorders threatening Muscovites' lives and attacks on police cannot be justified in any way. Neither can the murder of Yegor. Those who killed him should be in prison," Surkov told Izvestia.
At least 800 people were arrested in central Moscow on Wednesday evening as police held a massive operation to prevent further race-hate riots. Reports had earlier said that nationalists and migrants from Russia's North Caucasus were planning to clash. Many of those detained were in possession of knives and rubber bullet guns.
The official called for interethnic harmony in Russia. "This country is a common home for all our nationalities," he said.
MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
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