http://russia.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for russia en Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:19:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038823 unknown@Netscape.com Some russian experts think than their country can be attacked by special anti russian bio weapon Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:19:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038823russiabipweaponAttackresearchbanWestNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2038863 unknown@Netscape.com The transcript you weren't supposed to see Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:13:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038863PutingovernmentrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033705 unknown@ma.gnolia.com From the late '70s to the early '90s, Soviet military factories produced some 70 different video game models. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033705csshtmlDesignlayoutssystemunfiledproductfunphotocamdevelopmenttypeSciencephotographygeekjavascripttablesortableajaxnftnintendoWIIbrowsersupportcolorwebdesigngraphicdesignsmstshirtembeddedelectronicsfood recipesfoodcookingweb designweb developmentapachecheatsheetreferencewebdevarticlefreelancegreenblackredresharpersovietrussiaarcadegame http://web2announcer.com/go/2033514 unknown@Netscape.com The origin of the odor -- which has also affected seals, walruses and cod -- has baffled scientists. Samples taken from the whales show "a slew of more than a hundred volatile compounds," but it's not clear that these come from human pollution. Some have suggested that the whales, faced with climate-related food shortages, have resorted t Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:33:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033514whalesrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033155 unknown@Netscape.com If American teenagers during the Cold War ever stopped to consider how their Eastern bloc counterparts spent the weekend, they probably imagined dreary groups of Red Youth robotically singing hymns to Soviet wheat production and discussing the glories of socialist brotherhood from Hanoi to Havana. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:35:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033155sovietcoldwarrussiaarcadenostalgiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031830 unknown@Netscape.com President Putin need not worry about the US missile defense system as it does not work, according to a group of US scientists. The Union of Concerned Scientists made this statement even President Bush prepares to meet with his Russian counterpart tomorrow in Germany. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:49:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031830PutinusmissiledefensesystemrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031691 unknown@Netscape.com While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:08:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031691coldwarrussiaforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033184 unknown@Netscape.com While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:08:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033184coldwarrussiaforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2029492 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in last-ditch efforts to secure climate change goals at a G8 summit marred by a row over US missile defence plans. The US has already said it and several other countries at the summit of top industrial states oppose her target. At the same time, US plans to build a missile shield in two former Soviet satellites have sparked an intense war of words between Moscow and Washington." Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:22:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029492G8merkelsummitrussiaUnitedstatesGermanyEuropeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2025921 unknown@Netscape.com MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin sent a chilling message to world leaders on the eve of the Group of Eight summit with a threat to aim Russian nuclear missiles at European cities for the first time since the Cold War. In comments that seemed calculated to cause consternation and division at Wednesday's meeting in Germany, the Russian leader Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:58:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2025921PutinnukesrussiaMoscowNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2025393 unknown@Netscape.com Russia will once again aim missiles at targets in Europe if U.S. plans to build a missile shield near Russia's borders advance, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Sunday. Putin acknowledged Russia's response risked restarting an arms race but he said Moscow would not be responsible for the consequences because the U.S. had started it. Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:46:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2025393russiaUnitedstatesmissileshieldARMsraceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2022037 unknown@Netscape.com It's gotten so bad that an increasingly Stalinistic Vladimir Putin has started accusing us of provoking an "arms race" and conducting "imperialism" in global affairs. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:25:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022037ARMsraceforeignpolicyrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018302 unknown@Netscape.com Russia's top diplomat accused the United States of launching a new arms race as the two nations traded barbs Wednesday over U.S. plans to erect a missile defense system in countries formally under Moscow's influence. Wed, 30 May 2007 19:49:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018302russiaResistsMissledefenseplanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2013864 unknown@Netscape.com Russia will not participate in joint lunar exploration with NASA, but will assist the U.S. with its shuttle program until 2015, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country's National Aeronautics and Tue, 29 May 2007 02:56:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2013864NASAlunarprogramrussiaspaceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2006604 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "An explosion at a Siberian coal mine killed at least 35 people on Thursday, emergency officials said, weeks after 110 miners died in a blast at a neighboring mine operated by the same company. A spokeswoman for Russia's Emergencies Ministry said three people were still missing at the Yubileynaya pit, in the Kemerovo region of western Siberia, about five hours after a methane blast tore through the mine." Thu, 24 May 2007 14:33:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2006604SiberiacoalmineexplosionrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1999458 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "Britain wants to extradite a former KGB agent from Russia and charge him with murdering exiled Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko using radioactive polonium, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The move triggered instant diplomatic repercussions, as Britain summoned the Russian ambassador and told him it expected full cooperation over the case, but a Moscow judicial source ruled out handing over the suspect, Andrei Lugovoy." Tue, 22 May 2007 14:43:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1999458ANDREILugovoyLitvinenkoAlexanderrussiaKGBmurderNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1985406 unknown@Netscape.com Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov has compared the government of President Vladimir Putin to the dictatorships in Belarus and Zimbabwe. Kasparov said that while Russia might be closer to the European Union than to Africa, politically it resembles the dictatorship of Zimbabwe more than the democracies of Germany or France. Mon, 21 May 2007 01:25:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1985406russiaPutinkasparovdictatorshipNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1630768 unknown@Netscape.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was suspending Russia's obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, the Reuters news agency reports. The Russian President linked the move to U.S. plans for a missile defence shield in Europe. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:50:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1630768russiaEUmilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1615307 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "Russia may stop implementing a key defence treaty because of concerns over US plans for a missile shield in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said. Mr Putin made the threat during his annual address to parliament - which he said would be his last as president. He also hit out at an influx of foreign money which he said was being used to meddle in Russia's internal affairs." Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:58:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1615307russiamissileshieldUnitedstatescondoleezzaricevladimirPutinNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1614990 unknown@Netscape.com 21 one year ago there was a terrible failure on the Chernobyl atomic power station. 21 photos. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:33:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1614990chernobylaccidentukrainerussiaatomicNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1585186 unknown@Netscape.com Pledging to counter what it views as threats from NATO's eastward expansion and Washington's proposals to deploy missile shield facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia is aiming to boost its own military ties with its remaining ally in Eastern Europe, Belarus. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:23:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1585186russiaEuropemilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1573925 unknown@Netscape.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates invited Russia to become a partner in its missile defiance activities on Monday but his hosts made clear they were still against a planned missile shield in Europe. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:56:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1573925russiaMoscowRobertgatesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1573016 unknown@Netscape.com Former President Boris Yeltsin has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76. Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:55:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1573016BorisYeltsindeadrussiaKremlinNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1568730 unknown@Netscape.com I bet Ted Stevens is P.O.'ed that he didn't think of this first: Moscow is promoting a new "megaproject" to link Asia with North America by train, pipeline, and fiber-optic cable across the Bering Strait. But skeptics suspect it may be just a bluff to scare Europe about the future of Russian oil and gas supplies. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:59:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1568730russiaalaskaconstrucitonengineeringmegaprojectNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1512091 unknown@Netscape.com Fresh warrant issued and new inquiry into remarks about overthrow of Putin Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:35:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1512091russiaberezovskyrevolutionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1500893 unknown@Netscape.com The hate campaign against Vladimir Putin's Russia is really quite extraordinary, not only on account of its relentless ferocity but also because of its brazen reliance on rumor, exaggeration, and - all too often - utter falsehood. Take this piece by Cathy Young, recently downsized out of her longtime perch at the Boston Globe and relegated to the r Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:11:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1500893TorussiawithhateThewarpartytargetsKremlinNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1472184 unknown@Netscape.com Russia began construction of the world's first floating nuclear power plant on Sunday. The plant will be aboard a barge where two reactors will be manned by less than 60 crew. The 300-million-U.S. dollar project is expected to be completed in 2010, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:20:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1472184russiaNuclearpowerplantbuildingfloatingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1456781 unknown@Netscape.com As energy-rich Russia grows ever more confident, accusing the US of flouting international law, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:36:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1456781russiauscoldwartwoNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1456163 unknown@Netscape.com Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism. Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:27:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1456163russiacommunismPutinNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1456173 unknown@Netscape.com 2,000 demonstrators defy Kremlin to march in Moscow's streets as opposition leader Garry Kasparov is arrested Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:44:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1456173PutinkasparovprotestsrussiaKremlinNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1440367 unknown@Netscape.com In an unprecedented move, both houses of the Russian parliament Friday accused the United States of interfering in Russia's internal affairs ahead of parliamentary elections next December and crucial presidential polls next year. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:34:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1440367russiaforeignentanglementsmeddlingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1321481 unknown@Netscape.com To world historians, there is nothing more fascinating than to notice a coincidence or a disjuncture across space but within roughly the same time. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:50:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1321481NavieschinaU.S.russiahistoryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1242565 unknown@Netscape.com Vladimir Putin's Russia, in many ways, looks and feels like a new Soviet Union. The Russian president, who once praised democratic reform, now rules, some Russian experts say, like an old party chairman - crushing all opposition, cracking down on anti-government protests, even appointing mayors and regional governors. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:11:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1242565vladimirPutinrussiasovietuniondictatorshipNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1190845 unknown@Netscape.com In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security- known internationally as the KGB- celebrated the procurement of a very elusive bit of Western technology... Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:07:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1190845KGBrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1189915 unknown@Netscape.com China and Russia will mount a joint effort to explore Mars and one of its moons in 2009, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday following an agreement to boost cooperation between the two ambitious space powers. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:01:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1189915chinadetailsmarsexplorationrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1191477 unknown@Netscape.com First the Russians were credited with fuelling the London property boom. Then their wealth flooded into sectors from art to sports cars. Now the rush of roubles into Britain is credited with funding another rising market - champagne. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:32:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1191477champagnerussialondonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1121797 unknown@Netscape.com Russia has nothing to fear from a missile defense shield the United States wants to deploy in Eastern Europe because the rockets would be too light, too slow and too close to pose a threat, a U.S. envoy said Friday. Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:31:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1121797usdefenseshieldnothreatTorussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1103176 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "Talks on North Korea's nuclear program ground to a halt in Beijing on Thursday, with the North Korean and Russian envoys both leaving for the airport after four days of negotiations went nowhere. North Korea had avoided discussing a February deal to shut its main nuclear reactor by mid-April since the talks began on Monday, demanding that $25 million frozen in a Macau bank first be transferred to a bank in Beijing." Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:40:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1103176NorthKoreaNuclearSixnationtalksdiplomacyjapanUnitedstatesrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1077723 unknown@Netscape.com Iranian state television on Tuesday described Russia as an "unreliable partner" following a bitter business dispute over delays in building the country's first nuclear reactor. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:15:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1077723iranrussianukesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1087033 unknown@Netscape.com Russia's Security Council has denied reports in the U.S. media that Moscow issued an ultimatum to Iran over its uranium enrichment activities, the council's press service said Tuesday. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:22:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1087033russiairannukesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1078648 unknown@Netscape.com Russia has told Iran that it will withhold fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant unless Tehran suspends its uranium enrichment program as the U.N. Security Council demands. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:27:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1078648russiairanEnrichmentultimatumNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1072769 unknown@Netscape.com At least 50 people have been killed by fire which swept through an old people's home in southern Russia, the country's emergencies ministry says. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:44:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1072769russiaoldfolkshomeseniorcitizens50deadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1066993 unknown@Netscape.com Russia's security chief issued a veiled warning to Washington on Sunday not to use the Iranian nuclear issue to try to change Tehran's political course. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:40:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1066993russiairanNuclearNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1058649 unknown@Netscape.com A gas explosion has ripped through a Siberian coal mine where 168 people were working, a spokeswoman for the Russian emergency situations ministry said Monday. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:10:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1058649siberiancoalminerussiagasexplosionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1032285 unknown@Netscape.com A Russian passenger jet slammed into Samara airport Saturday morning in a crash landing, killing at least seven people and wounding 51 others, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, citing an emergency ministry official. Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:14:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1032285planecrashrussiasamaralandingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1023098 unknown@Netscape.com China and Russia joined Arab and Muslim states on Friday in urging the U.N.'s human rights watchdog to ignore a report from a mission to Darfur that blamed Sudan for continuing war crimes against civilians there. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:50:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1023098chinarussiadarfurNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1016179 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:04:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1016179architectureartDesignrussiaphoto http://web2announcer.com/go/1001222 unknown@Netscape.com MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia warned Iran on Tuesday of "irreversible consequences" for the Bushehr nuclear power station project should Tehran fail to resolve a financing dispute, state-run RIA Novosti reported. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:45:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1001222russiairanFinancingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/886047 unknown@Netscape.com More than 1,000 journalists and their support staff have died in the past decade, with Iraq and Russia topping the list as the deadliest countries for the profession, according to a report released Tuesday. Most of those killed were men who died in their home countries. Only one in eight deaths resulted in prosecution. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:55:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/886047JournalistsiraqrussiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/886662 unknown@Netscape.com Health officials in Moscow confirmed two U.S. women who became sick last month were poisoned with thallium but it wasn't known where or when. Marina Kovalevskaya, 42, and her daughter, Yana Kovalevskaya, 26, flew to Moscow from Los Angeles to attend a wedding in mid-February, and on Feb. 24, were rushed to a hospital, the Moscow Times reported. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:35:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/886662russiaNews