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- Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, December 16, 2010
Soyuz crew launched into spacehttp://rt.com/news/soyuz-crew-launched-space/ Published: 15 December, 2010, 22:29 Edited: 16 December, 2010, 09:27 Soyuz TMA-20 with US astronaut Cady Coleman, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev on board blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome early morning on December 16, 2010 (AFP Photo / Dmitry Kostyukov) A Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying a three-person crew has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman and the European Space Agency's Paolo Nespoli of Italy will spend the next five months at the International Space Station. Launch marks decade of missions http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5g2cCzMe1QzkZVgAhwhLp7pda056Q?docId=N0172751292460100774A (UKPA) – 3 hours ago Astronauts from the US, Russia and Italy have blasted off into the darkness, casting a warm orange glow over the chilly plains of Kazakhstan with their Soyuz spacecraft as they began a mission to the International Space Station. Russia's Dmitry Kondratyev, Nasa astronaut Catherine Coleman and the European Space Agency's Paolo Nespoli of Italy rode into space on the Soyuz TMA-20, which plans to dock at the orbiting laboratory on Friday. Family and colleagues of the crew waited nervously before the launch, which kicked off with a piercing white flash succeeded by a roaring wall of sound. Within seconds, the rocket seemed little more than a blur of incandescent flames fading into the distance. Officials at the viewing platform gave status updates at 20-second intervals over loudspeakers until reaching the nine-minute mark, indicating the ship had reached the relative safety of orbit, prompting a lively round of cheers. At that moment, a plush toy tiger that Coleman brought as the crew's mascot began floating in front of her, signalling the beginning of weightlessness as the spaceship reached an altitude of more than 125 miles above Earth, according to Nasa television footage. The flight caps a decade of manned missions to the space station, which began in October 2000. The departure of the Soyuz had been pushed back several days due the last-minute replacement of its re-entry module, which had been damaged during unloading earlier this year at the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Central Asian steppes. Replacing a key module so late in the launch schedule had caused some apprehension, although Mr Kondratyev shrugged such worries off at a final press conference. "All the procedures needed to check the integrity of the ship have been completed, and all those have shown positive results," he said. Copyright © 2010 The Press Association. All rights reserved. Ex-head of Sayano-Shushenskaya plant charged with safety violationshttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20101216/161798848.html 10:03 16/12/2010 The former director of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-power plant in Eastern Siberia, where 75 people died in an explosion in 2009, was charged on Thursday for violating safety rules, the Russian Investigative Committee said. Charges will be brought against another six people involved in the case in the near future. MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15784904&PageNum=0 16.12.2010, 09.59 MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) -- The former director of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant was brought to justice in the August 2009 hydro disaster case, spokesman for the Investigation Committee (SK) Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Thursday. “The former director of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant, a RusHydro subsidiary, Nikolai Nevolko, was charged with violation of the safety rules and other labour protection rules committed by an official who was to observe these rules that entailed the death of two and more people through negligence,” Markin underlined.
09:42 16/12/2010 POLITICS Between 800 and 1,200 people were detained on Wednesday evening across Moscow as Russian nationalists clashed with internal migrants from the North Caucasus. The operation was aimed at preventing another mass riot following the violence on Manezh Square on Saturday. (Kommersant, Vremya Novostei, Vedomosti, Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Izvestia) The Foreign Ministry accused the UK of "paranoid spymania" on Wednesday and hinted that the arrest of a Russian aide to a member of parliament could set back efforts to improve relations with London. (Moscow Times) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) officials take heed of the WikiLeaks scandal and prevent any leak of secret Russian data. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta) ECONOMY
The Finance Ministry plans to deprive small businesses of the simplified tax rules they currently enjoy in a bid to increase state finances. (Vremya Novostei) The Economic Development Ministry has adjusted its forecast for Russia's social and economic development for 2011-2013. (Vedomosti) SOCIETY The verdict announcement for the case against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev was postponed on Wednesday by two weeks. Judge Viktor Danilkin gave no explanation for the delay. (Vremya Novostei, Moscow Times, Vedomosti, Nezavisimaya Gazeta) The 2010 annals of corruption stories took a creative twist this week when the public learned that Moscow's metro chief is also a talented inventor. (Moscow Times) Muslim religious leader Anas Pshikhachev, the key ideological fighter against local Wahhabis, was shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria. (Kommersant) The Transportation Ministry does not think road construction expenses are too high. The estimated cost of one meter of the planned Moscow-St. Petersburg toll road exceeds 1.18 million rubles ($38,400). (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) ENERGY
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium agreed on Wednesday to invest $5.4 billion to double the pipeline's annual capacity to almost 70 million tons. (Moscow Times) CRIME Krasnodar Governor Alexander Tkachyov fired a senior regional official on Wednesday over the gruesome murder of 12 people, including four children, in the local village of Kushchyovskaya . (Moscow Times) DEFENSE
Russia's top military officials have decided to increase the number of contract servicemen in the armed forces, despite earlier plans to cut numbers. (Vedomosti) The United States will not oust Russia from India's armaments market, but New Delhi expects concessions from Moscow on nuclear issues. (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) AUTOMOBILES There were more reported thefts of the Honda CR-V crossover than any other car, reports from the largest Russian insurance companies show. Mitsubishi Lancer took second place, and Mazda 3 came third. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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