Russia 110712 Basic Political Developments
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- Shipping Disaster
- Faulty Engine
- Four persons missing after hydrofoil overturns on Teletskoye Lake in Altai.
- 21 wildfires reported in Russia’s Far East.
- Suspected organiser of clashes in Sagra detained - source.
- Blast occurs at office of Investigations Committee official in Moscow.
- 5 witnesses interrogated over blast at investigations committee office in Moscow.
- Police searching for Moscow synagogue arsonists.
- Arson attempted on synagogue in Moscow
Corrupt EconomyRussia is the world’s most corrupt major economy, according to Berlin-based Transparency International’s 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index released in October. U.S. President Barack Obama called Medvedev yesterday to extend his condolences over the accident. The leaders also discussed Libya, the World Trade Organization, Sudan, Afghanistan and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to statement released by White House press secretary Jay Carney. Medvedev declared today a day of mourning, and he and Putin expressed condolences. The disaster raises concerns about safety oversight and regulations of Russia’s passenger transportation, he said. “The number of old tubs in operation exceeds all limits,” the president said. “The government owns only a small number of these ships, but that doesn’t mean that the government should shirk control. Shipping DisasterThe incident is the worst shipping disaster in more than 25 years, according to Alexei Klyavin, president of the Association of Shipping Companies. Plane crashes in Irkutsk killed 125 people in 2006 and all 145 people in 2001, according to the Aviation Safety Network’s website. The boat sank “in minutes, very fast,” Liliya Khaziyeva, a spokeswoman for the Rescue Service from the neighboring Udmurtia region, said by phone from a boat near the accident site. “We found dead people wearing safety jackets, people who were simply unable to leave the ship.” Nikolai Chernov, a survivor, said on state television that he saw at least two ships pass by without offering help. The ship was returning to Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, from the town of Bolgar when it sank about 740 kilometers (460 miles) east from Moscow at 1:58 p.m. local time on July 10. It sank about three kilometers from shore, according to a statement on the Emergency Ministry’s website. “About 30 children were being entertained in one room, according to passenger reports,” Khaziyeva said. Divers are working at depths of 7 to 14 meters, she said. Workers have combed the river banks and islands in an area where the water stretches into a reservoir about 30 kilometers across, she said.
The Bulgaria was listing to the right when it left Kazan, which may be one of the reasons it sank, Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee said on state television. A criminal investigation has been opened into violations of transportation safety regulations, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. To contact the reporters on this story: Ilya Arkhipov in Moscow at iarkhipov@bloomberg.net; Lyubov Pronina in Moscow at lpronina@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Balazs Penz at bpenz@bloomberg.net 09:14 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183805.html 12/7 Tass 68 GORNO-ALTAISK, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — Four persons are still missing after a Volga hydrofoil accident on Teletskoye Lake in Russia’s republic of Altai on Monday, a spokesman for the local small vessels inspection told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. According to the spokesman, the accident took place late on Monday when the hydrofoil, which was making a pleasure voyage, overturned and sank some 30 kilometers off the settlement of Artybash. There were 13 persons onboard the vessel, nine were taken by nearby motor boats. Search and rescue operations for the missing four were conducted till 23:00 Moscow time on Monday and were resumed at 07:00 a.m. on Tuesday. According to preliminary information, the accident occurred because the boat had developed excessive speed. The boatman who drove the vessel was said to be drunk and might have lost control of the vessel. 08:23 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183775.html 12/7 Tass 78 KHABAROVSK, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — As many as 21 wildfires on an overall area of 1,037 hectares are ravaging in Russia’s Far East, a spokesman for the local forestry department told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. “The most difficult situation has evolved in the republic of Yakutia, with 17 wildfires raging on 425 hectares of forests and 340 hectares of non-forest areas. A big fire on 160 hectares of forests is reported in the Chukotka autonomous area, three fires on 87 hectares of forests are reported in the Amur region. NO wildfires are reported in other regions of the Far Eastern federal district,” the spokesman said. Fire fighting operations involve more than 400 firemen and 47 units of hardware. As many as 10 aircraft are patrolling the area. They are also used to airlift fire fighters and equipment to remote areas. As many as 1,362 wildfires on 457,000 hectares have been register in the Far East since the beginning of this year’s fire season. A total of 198 local officials have been brought to liability over violations of forest protection laws, a spokesman for the Far Eastern administration of the Russian prosecutor general’s office. A criminal case has been opened in the Amur region against acting director of the Norsky wildlife reserve on charges of negligence of office duties. The administration of the reserve furnished fake information about the wildfire situation and failed to ensure proper fire protection of the area, investigators said. 11:47 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183933.html 12/7 Tass 144 MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — Suspected organiser of the mass clash in the Sagra Village of the Sverdlovsk Region is detained, spokesman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. “Investigators have detained a local, who is known as Krasnoperov /Sergei the Gypsy/, who is suspected of having organised the mass conflict in the Sagra Village,” he said. The investigators said that tense relations between Sergei the Gypsy and Sagra’s locals had caused the conflict. Detectives probe into a version that the conflict was caused by theft of personal belongings of a civilian who worked for Sergei the Gypsy, and by the competition in lumbering in Sagra. The mass fight involving Sagra’s locals and visitors from Yekaterinburg occurred on July 1 at the entrance to the village. Investigators opened criminal cases over murder and hooliganism. 09:57 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183832.html 12/7 Tass 95 MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — A shell-less explosive device went off in the official of a deputy head of Moscow’ s northwestern district administration of the Russian Investigations Committee, a source in Moscow police told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. According to earlier reports, the blast occurred near the building of the prosecutor’s office in Moscow’s northwetsren at Zhivopisnaya Street 42. This building houses the district investigations administration as well. No victims have been reported so far. Bomb experts have established that the blast occurred at the office of deputy head of Moscow’s northwestern district administration of the Russian Investigations Committee Mr. Zalmanov on the first floor of three-storey brick building. The device had no bolts and nut. Its yield was about 100 grams of TNT, the source said. The blast damaged the wall, the ceiling, and furniture, broke windows, window guards and the door. 11:15 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183908.html 12/7 Tass 125 MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — Five witnesses have been interrogated over the blast that occurred in the office of a deputy head of Moscow’s northwestern district administration of the Russian Investigations Committee, a spokesman for the Russian Investigations Committee told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. According to Vladimir Markin, investigators are examining documents that were taken from the office. Earlier in the day, Markin said the criminal case was opened on charges of hooliganism and illegal possession of explosives. The blast occurred at 23:30 Moscow time on Monday, when an unidentified person threw a shell-less explosive device into the office through the window. The blast damages the office’s walls and ceiling, and broke the windows. No one was hurt. According to a source in local police, the device had no bolts and nuts. Its yield was about 100 grams of TNT. 06:23 12/07/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/183741.html 12/7 Tass 22 MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) — Police are searching for a group of men who made an arson attack on a synagogue in Moscow, the press service of the capital interior ministry department told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. “A group of hooligans attempted to put a synagogue in Moscow’s northeast on fire throwing several bottles of flammable liquid. No fire broke out,” the source said. Nobody was injured as a result of an arson attempt. Police are combing the area to find the arsonists. 12 July 2011, 11:00 Arson attempted on synagogue in Moscowhttp://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8581 Moscow, July 12, Interfax - An arson attempt has been made on a synagogue in Moscow. Four unidentified young men wearing masks threw incendiary bottles into the synagogue building on Signalny Proyezd at 12:40 a.m. on Tuesday and fled, a law enforcement source told Interfax. "Hooligans threw several incendiary bottles at the synagogue, but none of them hit the building and none of them exploded," a Moscow Police spokesman told Interfax. "It was an act of hooliganism and the incident will be probed on hooliganism charges," he said. But a source in law enforcement services said the attack could have been an act of nationalists' revenge for a verdict, handed down to five members of the Nationalist-Socialist Society on Monday. Reports said earlier that the Moscow District Military Court sentenced five members of the Nationalist-Socialist Society to life on counts of attempted murder and attempted terror attacks.
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