Monthly Archives: April 2009

Americans believe retired Medvedev 20%

resignation of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the increasing influence of the power and the return of Vladimir Putin to the post of President of the Russian Federation predicts in its report, Risks in an unstable world, an American consultancy firm, Eurasia Group, linking these events with the expansion of the economic crisis. [...]

Jack Straw has promised to take in the UK Guantánamo inmates

British Minister of Justice Jack Straw has promised to consider any U.S. request to deploy in British prisons of Guantánamo, reportedly at the site of the London The Times. Straw statement is contrary to previously stated position of the British foreign office, who spoke of the willingness to accept only inmates with a view to [...]

Russia to Build Underwater Fleet Vietnam

Party of the diesel-electric submarines of the Kilo project 636 for the Navy, Viet Nam will be built in Russia. Executor order selected JSC Admiralty Shipyards, which has already built two submarines of this class for Algeria, reports Kommersant.
In the near future, Rosoboronexport will sign a contract, an amount which is estimated at 1.8 [...]

Bolivia and Paraguay finally signed a treaty on border demarcation

BUENOS AIRES, April 28 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Solovsky. The President of Bolivia Evo Morales and his Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo was signed late in the evening on Monday in Buenos Aires an agreement on the demarcation of international boundaries, formally indicating complete resolution of armed conflict between the [...]

Napolitano dismisses close borders with Mexico by the swine flu

Washington, April 27 (EFE) .- The secretary of Homeland Security U.S. Jannet Neapolitan, today ruled out a possible closure of the border with Mexico, where it is the largest outbreak of swine flu infections since the disease is already in the country.
You can close the borders and if you think [...]

U.S. acts quickly to contain an outbreak of swine flu

By Ross Colvin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States said on Sunday the public health emergency due to an outbreak of swine flu that has been diagnosed in 20 people in that country, the same strain is suspected that killed 81 people inMexico.
The outbreak is another distraction for the president [...]

The Chinese doctors could diagnose pig influenza in its early stages

BEIJING, April 27 – RIA Novosti, Maria Chaplygin. China is taking all measures to prevent the country falling into the pig flu virus, while China has the technology for early diagnosis of the disease, broadcast on Monday, local media, with reference to the head of the Chinese Academy of [...]

Russia and the United States set a date to start negotiations on START

The American embassy in Rome were the preparatory consultations, the delegation of Russia and the United States, during which it was agreed to begin negotiations on a new Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START) in mid-May this year in Washington, reported Agence France-Presse.
This was First meeting of working groups of the [...]

Conference on the accession of Croatia to the EU moved

BRUSSELS, April 24 – RIA Novosti, Alexander Shishlov. Czech Republic Presidency of the EU to postpone the intergovernmental conference, designed to assess the progress of Croatia on the way in the EU, after the representatives of Slovenia and Croatia is once again not able to make a breakthrough in [...]

Announce the creation of a Puerto Rican-Hispanic Caucus of the Senate of New York

New York, April 23 (EFE) .- The Senate of New York for the first time in its history with a Puerto Rican Caucus /Hispanic assess the impact of projects that may have law in this community as well as introducing measures and take other actions on their behalf.
The announcement was made [...]