Moscow: Former adult video star Sasha Grey has begun her car rally across Russia, driving the same model of car as Russian President Vladimir Putin did on a similar journey.
Setting off from the eastern city of Vladivostok, Grey is driving the Lada Kalina model sedan as Putin, who took a Kalina on a 350-km drive starting from Vladivostok in 2010.
According to PrimaMedia.ru website, Grey, escorted by several other cars, Thursday rode across a bridge spanning Zolotoi Rog (Golden Horn) Harbor and left Vladivostok in the direction of Khabarovsk.
The car journey of the former porn star raised concerns in Kazan, the city on the Volga River that Grey is expected to pass on her way to Moscow, with local activists planning a rally May 18 against her visit to their city....
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08:32 AM, May 18, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the wake of the twin bombings in Boston early this week, in which the two suspects are said to be from the Russian part of Chechnya. "President Obama thanked President Putin for those sentiments, and praised the close cooperation that the United States has received from Russia on counter-terrorism, including in the wake of the Boston attack,"...
08:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Stockholm: Global military spending dropped in 2012 for the first time in more than a decade thanks to deep cuts in the United States and Europe which made up for increases in countries such as China and Russia, a leading think-tank said on Monday. Big powers the United States and its European allies face tight budgets in an economic downturn and have scaled back involvement in conflicts in Iraq and...
01:52 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev each earned almost 5.8 million rubles (about $187,000) in 2012, according to their tax reports. The reports, posted on the president's and the government's websites, said that the president's annual income rose by almost 2.1 million rubles (about $67,500) last year from 3.7 million rubles ($119,000) in 2011. Putin owns a plot of land, an apartment and a garage, as...
10:08 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Durban: Kudankulam's controversial atomic reactor I will be operational by April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured the Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Durban on Wednesday. He has given an assurance that the controversial unit I of the Kudankulam atomic power reactor in Tamil Nadu will become operational by next month. Singh was accompanied by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma...
12:41 PM, Mar 27, 2013
A former Russian tycoon, Boris Berezovsky, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his house. A one time ally of Vladimir Putin, he's believed to have fallen out with him. The police are now looking for chemical evidence after a radiation detector went off in his house. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for Durban on Monday for the 5th BRICS Summit over the next two days with the leaders of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. Besides the BRICs leaders, notably China's newly-elected President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Manmohan Singh is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with some African leaders on the margins of the summit. The Prime Minister will be...
05:52 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in the United Kingdom. Initial reports suggest he died in his bath at his house in Surrey. Police are now investigating the cause of death. The 67-year-old was one of Putin's fiercest and most public critics. In recent years, the one-time Kremlin powerbroker-turned-thorn in Putin's side fended off verbal and legal attacks in cases that often bore political...
11:40 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Moscow: Russia wants the BRICS group of major emerging economies to broaden its role and get more involved in geopolitics, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Friday. Putin, who has frequently criticised European and US activities and has teamed up with fellow BRICS nation China to counter Western clout, spoke before a summit next week of the group, which also includes Brazil, India and South Africa. He...
05:20 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning foreign banks from opening branches in the country, the government website said. The bill was adopted by the State Duma Februsry 22, 2013, and approved by the Federation Council March 6, 2013. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Formula One's first Russian Grand Prix will take place in October 2014, President Vladimir Putin has said. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Footage of Pussy Riot's irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral has been banned in Russia. ...
11:12 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Thousands of demonstrators gathered for a march in Moscow on Sunday to protest against a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, saying President Vladimir Putin's government had made orphans pawns in a political dispute. Kremlin critics and other opponents of the ban converged on a central boulevard in freezing temperatures, some chanting "Shame!" and "Putin is a scoundrel!" or holding banners condemning lawmakers who backed the law prohibiting adoptions. ...
09:35 AM, Jan 14, 2013
RSS mouthpiece Organiser has alleged that the government made Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India a low-key affair to keep under wraps the huge amount of arms sale agreement signed between the two countries. ...
02:40 AM, Jan 06, 2013
President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, part of a harsh response to a US law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although some top Russian officials including the foreign minister openly opposed the bill and Putin himself had been noncommittal about it last week, he signed it less than 24 hours after receiving it from parliament, where both houses passed...
08:16 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Pakistan on Thursday expressed its unhappiness over a just-concluded $2.9 billion arms deal between India and Russia, a media report said. ...
04:26 AM, Dec 28, 2012
The upper chamber of Russia's parliament on December 26 unanimously voted in favor of a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children. It now goes to President Vladimir Putin to sign or turn down. All 143 members of the Federation Council present voted to support the bill, which has sparked criticism from both the United States and from Russian activists who say it victimizes children by depriving them of the...
06:22 PM, Dec 26, 2012
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05:13 AM, Dec 25, 2012
The heart of the national capital on Monday turned into a fortress with heavy deployment of police who blocked roads leading to India Gate and Raisina Hill to ensure that no protests took place there but the arrangements put commuters at severe hardship. Office goers and students were the most affected due to blockade of roads and closure of nine metro stations near India Gate and Raisina Hill. ...
11:01 AM, Dec 24, 2012
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against the wearing of hijabs at schools in the country, and said the practice runs counter to Russian traditions. "Why should we adopt outside traditions?" Putin said during a marathon question-answer session with Russian and foreign reporters. A test case of Russia's hijab policy emerged in October, when Muslim parents in a village in southern Stavropol region complained to prosecutors over a...
12:01 PM, Dec 21, 2012
