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15,000 youth to rally in support of Kremlin in Moscowhttp://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/international/174183-15000-youth-to-rally-in-support-of-kremlin-in-moscow.html Thursday, 01 December 2011 05:03MOSCOW: Around 15,000 pro-Kremlin youth will rally in Moscow during upcoming legislative elections to ward off “provocation” by opposition groups, the movement said yesterday. Elections to the national parliament, the Duma, take place on Sunday and the Nashi (Ours) youth movement, a political force with open Kremlin backing, said its militants would gather in Moscow on the day of the vote and the following two days. “According to our information, troublemakers are planning to come to Moscow on these days,” said the movement which sprang up in support of former president and now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. “So on December 4, 5, and 6, during the legislative elections, up to 15,000 youths will rally,” Nashi said. “If there is any attempt at provocation, these people will be neutralised.” AFP It said it was planning a major rally on Nonday at Manezh square, next to Red Square and near the Kremlin walls and would be on the look-out for action by radical opposition groups such as Solidarnost, which has called for a boycott of the vote. Some 110 million eligible voters are called on to elect 450 deputies to the Duma in Sunday’s poll expected to be won by Putin’s party but without the two-thirds majority its now holds in the lower house, according to polls. Russian police confiscate radioactive Japanese car tyreshttp://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1678283.php/Russian-police-confiscate-radioactive-Japanese-car-tyres Dec 1, 2011, 7:34 GMT Moscow - Police in the Russian Pacific port city Vladivostok confiscated a shipping container from Japan that had dozens of radioactive car tyres in it, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. A total 29 tyres in the shipment were emitting excess levels of gamma and beta rays, making them unsafe to bring into Russia, a port official said. 'There's a good chance the radioactive tyres are a result of the Fukushima accident,' said Ivan Skogorev, a safety inspector. The tyres' owner might have them decontaminated, shipped backed to Japan or buried in a hazardous waste site in Russia; but as yet the shipment's consignee had not come forward, Skogorev said. Vladivostok custom officials in April halted a batch of 49 radioactive automobiles exported from Japan, some of which were found to emit dangerous isotopes at six times safe levels. A similar incident was reported in June. Russia's Far Eastern region is a major consumer of used Japanese automobiles. Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station suffered a series of nuclear meltdowns as a result of an earthquake. 
U.S. fighter takes swipe at Russian healthcarehttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20111201/169204616.html 12:55 01/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti, Alexei Korolyov)“The hallways were full of wandering patients that looked like they were just out of a civil war battle,” is how Jeff Monson, a U.S. heavyweight fighter, describes his experience at a hospital in Moscow in a blog post not exactly flattering about the Russian capital’s healthcare. Monson was forced to seek medical treatment after he broke his leg in a mixed martial arts fight with the Russian champion Fedor Emelianenko last Sunday. However it was another man, Vladimir Putin, who sustained the most serious injury - mainly to his ego. The Russian prime minister climbed onto the ring to congratulate Emelianenko but was met with boos and catcalls from the 22,000-strong crowd. Putin’s spokesman hastened to repair the damage, saying fans were in fact booing Monson, a claim rebutted by hundreds of supportive messages from Russians on his Facebook wall. “You are a great fighter! Whistling was not [at] you, it was an expression of disapproval at our prime minister,” Vladimir Kazakov from Tula wrote. Jeka Zorja said: “We hate only our government! We respect the real men, [which] you really are! All the whistles were only for Putin and for his party; they are the greatest thieves in our history!” One user posted that Monson should take on Putin next. Monson admitted that Emelianenko was a “class act” and that the fight didn’t go as planned for him. He then had a choice of two hospitals: “one for everyday folks and one for visitors and government officials.” “I picked the local everyday folk hospital as I was told it was closer to the arena,” Monson wrote in his blog on the MMA-Connection website earlier this week. He said that while he was “not a big fan of the medical industrial complex in the U.S.,” the Moscow experience made him “appreciate the comfort of health care in this country.” When he arrived, staff were smoking in the lobby while “the hallways were full of wandering patients that looked like they were just out of a civil war battle.” There was first a mix-up over which part of his body was to be x-rayed. “I had to fight with one of the doctors to avoid having my skull x-rayed. Eventually I got an x-ray for my leg which showed it was broken (something I already knew) and had it casted,” Monson said. He then had “16 stitches on the inside and outside of my lip with a material that could have passed for chicken wire.” “It was so sharp it was making my gums bleed so I took them out myself.” In an interview with the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets on Thursday, the staff at the hospital no. 36 said the “wandering patients” Monson witnessed were “local lushes injured in family fights.” “Every day after 6 p.m. there is an influx of patients with bloodied faces,” doctors said. They also dismissed Monson’s complaints about the material used in the stitching, saying it was “the cheapest and used everywhere in Russia.” Monson said, however, that he felt no anger: “The doctors were very kind and despite the inadequate medical equipment/supplies they knew what they were doing.” “As far as Putin and the booing at the end of the fight, well that’s another story at some other time,” he added. Directory: gifiles -> attach attach -> British Forces – Akrioti, Greece Griffin Fighter Squadron (84 Squadron raf) MoD announced possible Typhoon and Tornado arrivals to the base France attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments attach -> Unclassified//for official use only attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution Download 320.89 Kb. Share with your friends:
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