Pages of an advertising booklet devoted to the reusable space rocket complex “Buran” and the launch vehicle “Energia”. It’s rather interesting to see them today.
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Buran And Energia: Old Soviet Booklet
2014/02/27
Yanukovych Escorted to Russia By Fighter Jets – Report
2014/02/27
MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti) – Deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych landed at a military airport in southern Russia late on Thursday escorted by fighter jets, a local news agency has reported.
Yanukovych, whose whereabouts have since his ouster been subject of feverish speculation, is scheduled to hold a news conference in the southwestern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don at 5 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Friday.
“The plane with the embattled president onboard was escorted by several fighter jets. The boom of supersonic engines was heard for half an hour in the northwestern part of the city, where the airport is located,” local news agency DonInformBuro reported.
Yanukovych is staying at private premises in Rostov-on-Don, instead of a government residence for top officials, and no additional security forces have been deployed, the agency reported citing its own sources.
Yanukovych, whom Ukraine put on an international wanted list on mass murder charges, said in a statement Thursday he was still the legitimate president of his country and that he had been forced to ask Russia to ensure his personal security from “extremists.”
Anonymous government sources in Moscow said Thursday that Russia had accepted Yanukovych's request for security.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin ordered the government Thursday to hold consultations with international partners, including the International Monetary Fund, to provide financial assistance to Ukraine and develop a humanitarian aid package to Crimea.
"Putin instructed the Russian government to continue contacts with partners in Kiev regarding the development of trade and economic ties between Russia and Ukraine", Peskov said.
The toppling of Yanukovych’s government at the weekend has provoked a wave of pro-Russian rallies in the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, particularly in the Crimean Peninsula, where ethnic Russians are in a majority.
A purported decree by Yanukovych mandating that the country’s leadership and law enforcement agencies be transferred to the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea was read out before pro-Russian protesters gathered outside the peninsula’s parliament building in the town of Simferopol on Thursday.
Sources close to Yanukovych have said, however, that they consider the decree distributed via the Internet to be fake.
The Crimean parliament voted Thursday to approve Serhiy Aksenov, leader of the Russian Unity party, as head of the region’s government. The new prime minister immediately pledged allegiance to Yanukovych, saying that he still considered him Ukraine's legitimate head of state.
On Thursday evening, the parliament resolved to hold the referendum giving Crimea greater autonomy on May 25.
Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, when it was transferred to the Ukrainian republic within the Soviet Union. Russia has a large naval base on the peninsula on which it recently extended a lease until 2042.
Russia Is Just Like This
2014/02/27
Russian believe that foreigners have many stereotypes about their life, culture and traditions. All those bears in streets, crazy drivers and much more… But if real Russia is not like this why do these stereotypes keep living and flourishing? Probably this is why…
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Russia to Lift Ban on US Pork
2014/02/27
MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is planning to lift a ban on the importation of US-produced pork beginning March 10, a federal sanitation regulator said Thursday.
The import of US pork, beef and turkey was halted last February over concerns about the safety of human consumption of the growth-stimulant ractopamine, a common additive in animal feed in the United States.
The US government and the food industry lobby insist that ractopamine has been shown to be safe for human consumption, but meat from animals fed the chemical is prohibited for sale in Russia and more than 150 countries, including all EU member states.
The ban on turkey was lifted earlier this week, and so far poultry from three US companies has been certified as ractopamine-free, according to Russian sanitation authority Rosselkhoznadzor.
The number of US pork producers that would meet that requirement has yet to be determined, the agency said.
US meat producers exported $589 million of beef and pork to Russia in 2012, a spokesman for the US Meat Export Federation told RIA Novosti last year.
Russian Investigators in Bolotnaya Case Threatened – Official
2014/02/27
MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) – Officials investigating a 2012 anti-government protest that led to the sentencing of eight activists this week have been on the end of threats, the head of the country’s main investigative agency said Thursday.
Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin said, apparently responding to criticism of the case, that investigators had not only shown steady resolve and integrity in pursuing the matter, but had done so in the face of intimidation.
Bastrykin did not elaborate on the nature of the threats or which individuals had been targeted.
On Monday, seven activists were sentenced to prison terms of between 2 1/2 to four years for participating in rioting and violence at a rally on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square in May 2012, a day before Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a third term as president.
An eighth activist received a suspended sentence.
More than 400 people were detained at the demonstration, one of several large-scale street rallies in Moscow and other Russian cities that had taken place since December 2011 to oppose Putin’s return to the presidency.
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