A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced two Jehovah’s Witnesses to long prison terms in the latest persecution of members of the banned Christian group. The commission of inquiry noted on January 20, a court in the city of Seversk sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to seven years in prison afterRead More →
Artists and sculptors traveled thousands of miles to Novosibirsk in Russia for this year’s Siberia Snow Sculpture Festival. Twenty-seven participants – including twelve schoolchildren – carve, slice and mold huge blocks of snow to create ice sculptures for the annual competition which will be judged this weekend. Competitors came fromRead More →
– New Eastern Perspectives THE energy crisis may be the worst since 1973, when Arab countries imposed an oil embargo, protesting Western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Combined with a pandemic with new strains of Covid and the threat of a relapse, this is a mortal blowRead More →
Three of five associates of imprisoned Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny who were arrested by police in raids across the country on December 28 have been freed. The five former directors of the headquarters of Navalny’s network of regional campaign groups have been arrested and questioned for possibly abusing their officialRead More →
The year in Russia is ending with a series of events that have alarmed many observers about the intentions of President Vladimir Putin and his government. First, the state media monitoring agency Roskomnadzor blocked the OVD-Info website, which notably served as a clearinghouse between detained protesters and defense lawyers. ThenRead More →
Updated at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 29 to add three more detentions. At least five former network coordinators of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have been arrested across the country for organizing an extremist group, media reported on Tuesday. The raids and arrests in the cities of Tomsk and Irkutsk comeRead More →
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrives for a hearing for his appeal at a court in Moscow, Russia June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MOSCOW, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Russia has arrested two allies of jailed Kremlin enemy Alexei Navalny, aRead More →
Russian police have taken three former regional coordinators of Aleksei Navalny’s campaign team for questioning amid continued pressure against associates of the jailed opposition leader. The home of Zakhar Sarapulov, who headed the Irkutsk headquarters of Navalny’s network of regional campaign groups, was raided in the early morning of DecemberRead More →
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations must be shut down, a move that sparked public outrage. and is the latest step in a months-long crackdown on human rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters. TheRead More →
Fireworks in aisle three! Massive explosions rock a crowded Russian supermarket as rockets and crackers catch fire – although a customer is determined to finish his weekly shop Fireworks were lit in a Russian store, turning it into what looked like a war zone Around 500 people were in theRead More →
TEHRAN – Speaking to reporters at his annual year-end press conference, Russia’s president answered questions on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues that have dominated Russian headlines over the past last 12 months. High on the agenda are tensions with NATO, which have recently escalated dramatically. VladimirRead More →
Festive illuminations illuminate the central square of the Siberian city of Tomsk. Next to a New Year’s tree, sixteen large ice sculptures decorate the site. The works were created as part of the Crystal Tomsk ice sculpture festival which took place from December 12 to 18. This is the seventhRead More →
Festive illuminations illuminate the central square of the Siberian city of Tomsk. Next to a New Year’s tree, sixteen large ice sculptures decorate the site. The works were created as part of the Crystal Tomsk ice sculpture festival which took place from December 12 to 18. This is the seventhRead More →
Sergei Samborsky fled to Georgia Sergei Samborsky, 27, from the Russian city of Tomsk, rose to fame across Russia at the end of October. He infiltrated the hospital to take care of his grandmother with coronavirus and filmed the terrible conditions in which the Covid patients were placed. Sergei triedRead More →
TOMSK, December 6. /TASS/. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will open its new skills center, where engineering students will be tested for their management skills and then receive individual programs to develop their talents, the university’s press service said on Monday. . “Tomsk Polytechnic University has joined the project of theRead More →
Shortly before leaving Russia in a hurry for Georgia, Sergei Samborsky visited the office of the Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights, Tatyana Moskalkova. Tomsk resident Samborsky made headlines last month after posting a shocking video of appalling conditions inside the “red zone” of the Siberian city’s largest COVID-19 hospital. InRead More →
In the Russian Far East there remains a great mixture of Christianity and paganism. Orthodox priests in the countryside engage in shamanic practices. Pagan folklore seen as a spectacle of “popular culture”. Orthodox clergy and shamans “combined” against the Covid. Moscow (AsiaNews) – A survey of the site Sibir RealiiRead More →
A secret European intelligence report has concluded that the Chechen security services were most likely behind the 2020 attempted murder in Sweden of a dissident Chechen blogger. Tumso Abdurakhmanov, an exiled critic of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, barely survived a hammerhead attack last year in a bizarre assassination attempt thatRead More →
The FabLab (from “fabrication lab”) opened at TSU on November 19. This center helps in the development of creative engineering and new educational contexts. Thanks to the equipment of the new laboratory, students can experiment with new high-tech solutions and acquire skills in project management and cutting-edge technologies. “This spaceRead More →
Irish oil and gas explorer PetroNeft has described work on two wells in Russia’s Tomsk Oblast region as a “fantastic success” and said it will deliver a full return on investment in less than a year . A contract has been signed for the provision of fracturing services on theRead More →
TOMSK, Russia — When Sergei Samborsky learned from a patient at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in this Siberian city that his 84-year-old grandmother, an Alzheimer’s patient being treated in the isolation ward for COVID-19, was not fed or cared for properly, he became desperate. He begged hospital workers to letRead More →
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Worried that hospital staff were neglecting his sick grandmother on a Siberian COVID-19 ward, a Russian man said he snuck in disguised as a doctor to tend to her himself. same. Sergei, who declined to give his surname, told Rain TV in an interview aired on ThursdayRead More →
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MOSCOW, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Worried that hospital staff are neglecting his sick grandmother on a Siberian COVID-19 ward, a Russian man said he snuck in disguised as a doctor to tend to her himself. same. Sergei, who declined to give his surname, told Rain TV in an interview airedRead More →
October 22, 2021 Rosatom scientists have developed a new, highly accurate numerical model of the public impacts of radiation releases. They said his findings highlight the “conservatism” of nuclear power plant design and may lead to better economics. A ceremony to mark the start of concrete pouring took place atRead More →
Russian, 40, hugs his girlfriend, 67, during his trial for nearly hacking him to death with an ax so he could demand the court not jail his wife The woman was accused of hitting her boyfriend multiple times with an ax The incident took place during a night of drinkingRead More →
Rapid warming in Russia could release viruses previously unknown to mankind, a Nobel Prize-winning climatologist has warned at an international climate forum in Siberia. Russia is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, according to scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with its ArcticRead More →
Deep in Siberia, Russia, the city of Tomsk has long been home to a storied Jewish past. With the inauguration of its new cultural and educational center for children on September 12, the city’s Jewish community celebrated a bright future. Located next to the Choral Synagogue in Tomsk, the newRead More →
You’ve probably come across this before – you have a poorly documented circuit board and want to know the part number for a tiny SMD chip. Retro computer enthusiast [JohnK] tweeted recently on such a database he recently found, titled The Ultimate Database of SMD Marking Codes. This database isRead More →
JTA — A century ago, the Communists closed the synagogues of Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It was a painful blow, especially for the local community of Jewish cantonists – former soldiers who had been recruited against their will or kidnapped into the Russian Tsar’s army andRead More →
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A logo of Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk is pictured at the Atamanskaya compressor station, a facility of Gazprom’s Power of Siberia project outside the far eastern town of Svobodny in the Amur region, Russia November 29 2019. Picture taken November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov . Join now for FREE unlimited accessRead More →
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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally to mark the 5th anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and to protest proposed amendments to the country’s constitution, in Moscow, Russia February 29 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterRead More →
MOSCOW, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Russian coffeehouse chain Podorozhnik plans to raise 1.9 billion rubles ($25.79 million) in an IPO on the St Petersburg Stock Exchange this fall, reported Wednesday Interfax, citing company president Tatyana Fomina. Russia’s IPO activity, which was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, is acceleratingRead More →
VLADIVOSTOK – Located in the freezing Far East of Russia, Vladivostok has long relied on coal-fired power to heat the city during its long winters. A major new gas pipeline promised as a benefit to host the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was seen as a chance for theRead More →
A small Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing in Siberia on Friday after engine failure, emergency officials said. All of her 19 passengers and crew survived. Shortly after the An-28 plane went missing in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia, rescue helicopters spotted it lying in a field onRead More →
In recent days, the fires have spread to 6,300 hectares. The biggest fire hit the province of Enisej. Greenpeace Russia: The situation could get worse. Russian expert: non-existent prevention throughout the country. In 2019, 9 million hectares of forest went up in smoke. Moscow (AsiaNews) – The first week ofRead More →
Doctor, Justin Chukwudi Olewuezi has become the first Nigerian to graduate from Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk in Russia. In an exclusive interview with LINE BLOWOlewuezi revealed that few Nigerians and Africans come to this part of Russia from elsewhere, preferring the western part of the country. The trip Dr.Read More →
Karaoke club manager Tatiana Amaliya has been scrambling to find a clinic with hits to spare since the June 24 announcement of mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for hotel workers. It must vaccinate its staff within the next three weeks or else its venue in the lavish ski resort of Krasnaya PolyanaRead More →
After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its foray into eastern Ukraine, the West imposed targeted sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, the most revenue-generating part of the Russian economy. The sanctions have exposed key vulnerabilities in the energy sector – a heavy reliance on Western capital market borrowing andRead More →
MArina Shakhov never took to the streets to express her opposition to President Vladimir Putin until recently. During the protests which began on January 23 and repeated the following weekend, the 31-year-old trade representative marched with several hundred people, braving 3F temperatures in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Just aRead More →
The first nuclear power plant in Europe since 2007 is getting closer to commissioning – photo courtesy of Rosatom’s Facebook page CAIRO – Jan 31, 2021: A new group of international nuclear engineering students, including Egyptians, have graduated from Russia’s Polytechnic University in Tomsk, Rosatom State Atomiс Energy Corporation (ROSATOM)Read More →
One of the Russian agents who tracked opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok in August was tricked into revealing how the botched operation was carried out in a 49-minute phone call with Navalny himself, CNN and Bellingcat report. Why is it important: Russian PresidentRead More →
One of the Russian agents who tracked opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok in August was tricked into revealing how the botched operation was carried out in a 49-minute phone call with Navalny himself, CNN and Bellingcat report. Why is this important: Russian PresidentRead More →
TOMSK, Russia — Seven local lawmakers in the Siberian city of Tomsk have asked Russia’s Investigative Committee to launch an investigation into the August nerve agent poisoning of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny. City lawmakers said in a formal letter to the investigating committee that they were concerned about theRead More →
TOMSK, Russia – When Alexei Navalny arrived in this Siberian city in August, the opposition leader gathered supporters at his local headquarters to applaud their efforts in an ongoing regional election campaign and deliver a motivational speech tinged with his usual mix of sarcasm and black humor. . But AndreiRead More →
The nerve agent used to poison Alexei Navalny in Siberia last month was found on a water bottle in his hotel room, aides to the Russian opposition leader said on Thursday. After Mr Navalny quickly fell ill on a flight to Moscow, the anti-corruption activist’s team took a bottle ofRead More →
Ksenja Fadeeva was personnel coordinator of Naval’ny. The blogger, leader of the opposition, woke up from a coma and even managed to get up. In the regional elections in several towns in Siberia, encouraging results are expected for the opposition. Everywhere the slogan “The United Russia party [Putin’s ed] boredRead More →
For Alexei Navalny it was another routine trip to the regions. Specifically to Siberia’s largest city, Novosibirsk, and its attractive neighbor, Tomsk. “An excellent city. One of the most beautiful in our country,” Navalny enthused on Instagram, posting a photo of Tomsk with a group of young supporters on Wednesday.Read More →
AHMEDABAD: Seeking investment in the Tomsk region, a Russian business delegation today expressed interest in participating in the development of smart cities in India. In a business-to-business meeting with Gujarat-based companies here, the two sides deliberated on ways to increase investment. The Russian delegation of about ten companies from theRead More →