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Fan held for bringing banana to a football match in Siberiahttp://en.rian.ru/sports/20110712/165142849.html 01:44 12/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 12 (RIA Novosti)A football fan, who carried a banana in his bag, has been briefly detained before a match in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the official website of Russia's First Division said. The incident took place before a game between Russia's First Division clubs Yenisey Krasnoyarsk and Sibir Novosibirsk on Monday. A banana has become a symbol of racist attacks in Russian football after two incidents involving Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos. Both Yenisey and Sibir have no black players, however. "He [the fan] was detained by police who demanded him to write an explanation of why he brought a banana to the stadium," the website said. "Later, he was informed of consequences that throwing a banana to the field may entail, and was allowed to return to his seat." In late June, Samara club Krylya Sovetov was fined 300,000 rubles ($10,630) following an incident when a fan threw a banana in the direction of Carlos. This is not the first time the 38-year-old Brazilian, who won the 2002 World Cup, has been subjected to an act of racism in Russia. A half-peeled banana was also thrust at Carlos in St. Petersburg in March, ahead of the first game of the season.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court handed down life sentences on Monday to five ultra-nationalists convicted of the racist murders of 27 people, and shorter prison terms to eight members of their group. The ringleader was among the five men given life sentences for the 2007-08 killing spree in and around Moscow, which targeted people from Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus and from ex-Soviet Central Asia. Standing in a glass box, the group shared jokes and attempted Nazi salutes in handcuffs before their sentencing in the Moscow Military District Court, state TV showed. Eight members of the gang, including one young woman, were given terms of between eight and 25 years behind bars, Russian media reported. Neo-nationalist groups have been increasing in number in Russia, and violent clashes in the capital between Muslims and ethnic Slavs have raised concerns authorities will be unable to keep order ahead of March 2012 elections. Over the last two years, a judge and a lawyer who fought against neo-nationalists, Eduard Chuvashov and Stanislav Markelov, were shot and killed in attacks officials connected to their work. Rights workers say the Russian government's lenient attitude to the far right allows racism to flourish in Russia, which is home to some 20 million Muslims, a seventh of the population. Many migrants from the impoverished North Caucasus, where an Islamist insurgency is raging, come to the Russian heartland for menial work. They say they are often treated with suspicion by ethnic Russians and many face racism. Those convicted on Monday belong to the far-right Nationalist Socialist Society, which was outlawed in February and whose logo is a red and black stylised swastika. The group's leader Lev Molotkov pleaded not guilty, and the defence plans to appeal against the length of the sentences, Russian media reported. After being convicted, some of the nationalists shouted: "Our conscience is above your laws, we'll be back!" Interfax news agency reported. They were also found guilty of attempted terrorism, creating and participating in extremism and inciting racial hatred. (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman, editing by Tim Pearce) Russian carrier-rocket launch pushed back until later datehttp://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/12/53095704.html Jul 12, 2011 10:14 Moscow Time The launching of the “Soyuz-2.1.a” carrier-rocket with six US communication satellites Globalstar-2 has been pushed back until a later date, says the Roskosmos press service head Alexei Kuznetsov. According to the official, just when the Soyuz will take off depends on how quickly the problems found during the preparation of the rocket for launching will be fixed. Earlier, the take-off of the “Soyuz-2.1.a” was already postponed due to problems in removing the launch pad umbilical tower from the carrier-rocket, problems that emerged just seconds ahead of the take-off. 12 July 2011, 11:32
Moscow, July 12, Interfax - First deputy chairman of the Russian Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov believes it is not by chance that Vladimir Putin became Russian President in hard times for Russia and Ahmad Kadyrov was the first President of Chechnya. "It seems to me that if God decides that a nation should live for some more centuries then in a hard hour He sends someone who leads people out of the dead-end, war, devastation, trouble. It seems to me Ahmad-Hadzhi was the man sent by God to the Chechen people in order to lead them out of trouble this nation faced," Surkov said in his interview with the Dialogi program on the Chechen TV on the eve of 60th birthday of the first Chechen President. "He wasn't chosen by an HR department. There was no questionnaires and interviews, there was no announcements in papers that a president for the Chechen Republic is being searched for," Surkov went on to say. He has the same opinion on Putin's election in 2000. "To tell the truth I believe that Putin was given to Russia by God and destiny in a hard hour for our one big nation. It seems that these people (Putin and Kadyrov) had to find each other as both of them were destined to save our nations, big Russian nation and the part of this nation - Chechen people. I believe that's the way it was," Surkov said. He again stressed that he rather refers it to the "questions of destiny than any personal characteristics."
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