- 07:24 02/05/2013
The foreign minister of Bangladesh said the government does everything possible to improve labor safety regulations in the country’s $20 billion garment industry, but the problem could not be solved “overnight,” Al Jazeera reported.
- 06:41 01/05/2013
The European Union voiced its concern on Wednesday over labor safety regulations in Bangladesh following the recent collapse of an industrial building that killed hundreds of people.
- 21:24 29/04/2013
The number of terrorist attacks and related arrests in EU countries significantly increased in 2012 compared to previous years, Europol’s press service told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 18:46 24/04/2013
A Hague court has sentenced a former Dutch foreign ministry official to 12 years in jail for passing sensitive documents on NATO and the European Union to Russia.
- 17:16 24/04/2013
Consumer prices in Russia rose by 1.9 percent in January-March 2013, well in excess of Europe’s average inflation rate of 0.5 percent over the same period, Russia’s State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said on Wednesday.1
- 23:58 22/04/2013
A deputy Russian foreign minister on Monday criticized the European Union’s decision to ease its sanctions against Syria to support the country's opposition.
- 17:20 19/04/2013
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday he will never legalize same-sex marriage in his country while he is in office.
- 16:57 19/04/2013
Sanctions imposed by the European Union on Belarus over its human rights record saved Belarusian businessmen from taking a Cyprus deposit "haircut," President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.
- 22:45 17/04/2013
Russian state-controlled and private companies have not sustained any losses due to the financial crisis in Cyprus, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 23:27 16/04/2013
I was almost done reading “The Fort Hood Sentinel” as part of my morning routine the other day when I came across a fascinating story about 22 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) being loaded onto a vessel off the coast of Germany and shipped to America. Without much fanfare, the Abrams left for South Carolina, according to an April 11 dispatch from Kaiserslautern by US Army Staff Sergeant Alexander Burnett.
- 08:14 11/04/2013
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised the outlook on Cyprus to stable from negative, the ratings agency reported Wednesday.
- 06:34 11/04/2013
The share of Russians who consider their country the leader in space exploration has fallen by about a third to 35 percent in 2013 from 51 percent two years ago, but has only changed slightly since last year, according to an opinion survey.
- 18:01 10/04/2013
European Union embassies in the North Korea will remain open for business, despite a proposal from Pyongyang for them to evacuate staff over mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the UK’s Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
- 14:28 08/04/2013
Russia has decided to restructure its multibillion euro loan to Cyprus to help the island nation resolve its financial crisis, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 22:09 05/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the recent financial meltdown in Cyprus proved how "risky" and "insecure" investments in Western financial institutions can be.1
- 09:53 04/04/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 12:24 01/04/2013
Working for an NGO – especially a foreign-funded one – in today’s Russia is rather like being the main protagonist in a computer game like Temple Run. No matter how many hurdles you jump over and how many monsters you dodge, there is always a new danger in your path.
- 18:56 31/03/2013
Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus said his country should withdraw from the European Union as the EU will fall apart and cease to exist in the future.
- 09:41 28/03/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
