http://english.pravda.ru/English pravda.ruhttp://english.pravda.ru/pix/logo.gifhttp://english.pravda.ru/http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/09-02-2012/120456-michael_mcfaul_ambassador-0/The diplomatic career of the former Special Assistant to the President of the United States National Security Affairs Michael McFaul did not have a particularly successful start. First, he provoked a tremendous domestic political scandal by inviting representatives of opposition parties and movements to a closed meetingThu, 9 Feb 2012 12:29:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/08-02-2012/120448-russia_finland-0/Finland elected a new president. While he does not deliver Anti-Russian speeches, Russia still needs to be alarmed. He is a politician who is not opposed to Finland's NATO membership. In Russia, these words can be interpreted as support for Euro-Atlantic integration of the neighboring country with which it has 1,300 kilometers of common borderWed, 8 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/07-02-2012/120439-putin_russia-0/On February 6, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin published his fourth program article, in which he continued to describe his views about the further development of the country. Also on Monday, Putin had a meeting with leading political scientists of the country to discuss the course of the election campaignTue, 7 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/07-02-2012/120431-Russia_and_China_chain_the_dogs_of_war-0/US/westerm global domination objectives were masked in a draft resolution expressing the support of the Security Council on a proposal from the Arab League in which the Syrian president would transfer the government as a first step to elections and other actions.Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:48:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/03-02-2012/120402-grigory_yavlinsky-0/The European Union wants to see Grigory Yavlinsky as a presidential candidate in Russia. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton stated during her speech at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels that the Russian authorities should urgently revise the decision not to register Yavlinsky as a presidential candidateFri, 3 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/02-02-2012/120401-russia_libya_gaddafi-0/Russia has lost $4 bln due to the loss of arms contracts with Libya as a result of the UN's arms shipments embargo. Anatoly Isaikin, the Director of Russia's defense export giant, said that Russia had concluded arms contracts worth $2 billion with the previous administration of Libya. "We could conclude more contracts for the same amount," he saidThu, 2 Feb 2012 17:37:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/01-02-2012/120389-phobos_ground-0/It appears that the investigation about the reasons of the crash of Russia's Phobos Ground spacecraft is drawing to its end. As a matter of fact, the reasons, which made the interplanetary station stay in Earth's orbit instead of flying to Mars, were clear from the very beginning. The engines of the satellite did not start. Is that all, though?Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:50:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/31-01-2012/120375-russia_dispute_territory-0/Japan is not the only country that makes claims to Russia. Estonia is open about its claims, while Germany and Finland express them indirectly. What would the results of the vote be? Is there a risk that Russia loses the Kuriles, a part of Karelia and the Kaliningrad enclave? The ownership of the South Kuril Islands will be decided by a referendumTue, 31 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/30-01-2012/120367-russia_far_east-0/Vladimir Putin advocates tough measures in the field of migration policy in the country. Meanwhile, officials with the Ministry for Economic Development think of the ways to attract more guest-workers to the country. The officials shared their plans to attract Asian nationals for the development of the agricultural industry of Russia's Far EastMon, 30 Jan 2012 18:18:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/27-01-2012/120346-phobos_ground-0/The committee, which investigates the reasons of the breakdown of Russia's Phobos Ground spacecraft, presented the basic version of the accident. Sources at the space industry told Interfax said that, most likely, the spacecraft did not enter the departure trajectory to Mars due to the influence of plasma formation in the magnetosphereFri, 27 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/26-01-2012/120338-kalashnikov_ak_12-0/Russia's largest firearms manufacturer, JSC Izhmash, unveiled its first model of the fifth-generation Kalashnikov assault rifle. The new rifle is tentatively called AK-12. The AK-12 is being developed for export purposes. The state tests of the rifle may begin at the end of 2012 or in the beginning of 2013Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/26-01-2012/120332-Putin_has_more_than_fifty_percent_support-0/Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has more than fifty percent of popular support for the presidential elections in March, notes a research center for the Study of Public Opinion (Vtsiom). Putin, who presents himself as a presidential candidate of United Russia party, went from 48 to 52 percent, a sustained increase in the last four weeks...Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:28:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/25-01-2012/120328-heavy_unmanned_helicopters-0/Russia's leading manufacturer of helicopters develops several types of unmanned aircraft in accordance with the decision of the Defense Ministry. Two years ago, the ministry spent quite a lot on the purpose - $55 million. Now they want the Russian producer to get involved. Does Russia have necessary technologies for it?Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/24-01-2012/120312-domodedovo_airport_bombing-0/January 24th marks a year since one of the largest terrorist acts that occurred in Russia during the recent years. It goes about the explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport. Magomed Yevloev, a 21-year-old suicide bomber, a resident of the village of Ali-Yurt, Ingushetia, detonated his explosive device on January 24, 2011Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:47:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/23-01-2012/120299-belarus_china_russia-0/China is strengthening its position in Belarus and pushing Russia out. It is no accident that on January 19 in an interview with Chinese media Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said: "We are very grateful that the Chinese government cares about us." Lukashenko is particularly impressed with the ability of China to control the InternetMon, 23 Jan 2012 13:54:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/20-01-2012/120294-Putin_Russian_Achievements_and_Challenges-0/At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Putin held a government conference, highlighting the achievements of the Russian administration for 2011, pointing out and discussing plans for the future. The Russian Federation’s economic results in 2011 are among the best in the world. Its GDP ranked third among the global economies...Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:56:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/20-01-2012/120288-britain_spy_rock-0/Russian TV journalist Arkady Mamontov proved to be right. He was not expecting any apologies from his colleagues. Practically none of them, who had been cracking jokes about the spy rock during the recent six years, even thought to admit that they were wrong. It was not Britain that acknowledged that. It was Powell, Blair's former aide, who said thatFri, 20 Jan 2012 14:05:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/19-01-2012/120281-phobos_ground-0/Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency, named the main versions, which became the reasons for the failure of the nation's Phobos Ground Mars exploration project. Popovkin still believes that the Russian spacecraft could come out of order because of a US radar, even though US officials stated the oppositeThu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/18-01-2012/120264-europe_russia_visa-0/Europe plans to sign a document about the simplification of the visa regime with Russia. Michael Webb, charge d'affaires of the EU delegation to Russia, said that the agreement to ease visa procedures up to 90 days could be signed in the first half of 2012. The first European country to have opened borders for Russian citizens was CroatiaWed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:00 +0400http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/16-01-2012/120238-putin_competition-0/Rallies against the policy of "United Russia" and Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, the blogosphere is happy to discuss the failures of the Prime Minister and spam at a campaign website of the presidential candidate, and the election rivals of Putin already see themselves at least in the second round.Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:32:00 +0400