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Smolensk

Type: City

Name: Smolensk

Country: Russia

Latitude: 54.779999

Longitude: 32.040001

population: 320,994

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Retracing Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow to Paris in Ural Motorbikes

Two centuries ago, Napoleon retreated from Moscow to Paris through the harsh winter after his crushing defeat. Helped by (relatively) modern engineering, Sylvain Tesson retraced his steps. Photography by Thomas GoisqueIN EARLY DECEMBER 2012 in Moscow, ... [Published Spear's - May 14 2013]

Entities: Ural (Russia), Moscow, Paris, French Army, Vilnius

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Russian terrorists killed Poland's President in a series of explosions

A Warsaw newspaper, Fakt, reported on new developments in the investigation of the Russian terrorist attack on Polish government plane near Smolensk on April 10, 2010, in which the Russians killed 96 members of Polish political, military and church elite. ... [Published Kavkaz-Center - May 13 2013]

Entities: Detonation, Terrorists, Smolensk, Antoni MACIEREWICZ, Tupolev OAO

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Tupolev OAO

There is overwhelming evidence that Polish presidential plane was blown up by Russian terrorists

A Polish magazine, Przewodnik Katolicki, published an interview with Antoni Macierewicz, Chairman of the Parliamentary Investigation Commission for the Smolensk disaster of April 10, 2010, under the title "There is another Russia (Istnieje druga Rosja)", ... [Published Kavkaz-Center - May 10 2013]

Entities: Smolensk, Tupolev OAO, Terrorists

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Russia marks 68th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

MOSCOW, May 9 (Itar-Tass) - The last battles were fought in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 68 years ago and May 9, 1945 became a day of great triumph for the people that had stopped the Wermacht's crushing machine and delivered a devastating blow ... [Published Itar Tass - May 08 2013]

Entities: Siege of Leningrad, Moscow, Soviet Union

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Dmitry Medvedev

Jailed Russian activist complains to European court

:p>Lawyers of a Russian political activist’s wife, have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.Her eight-year prison sentence was slammed last year by then-president Dmitry Medvedev as “harsh”.Taisiya Osipova, 28, was arrested in ... [Published ProKerala.com - May 08 2013]

Entities: Sergei Fomchenkov, Dmitry Medvedev, Taisiya Osipova, prison, Eduard Limonov

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Russian opposition activist sentenced for drug trafficking appeals to ECHR

Tags: Sentence, Appeal, ECHR, RussiaMOSCOW, May 7 (RAPSI, Saria Kiut) - Taisia Osipova, an activist in the unregistered The Other Russia opposition party, has appealed her eight-year prison sentence for attempt of selling drugs at the European Court of ... [Published RAPSI - May 07 2013]

Entities: Drug Trafficking, Irina Khrunova, Taisiya Osipova

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Belarus war veterans to visit Sevastopol on 9 May

MINSK, 7 May (BelTA) – On Ukraine’s invitation, a delegation of Belarusian war veterans will take part in a meeting of war veterans in Sevastopol on 9 May, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Alexander Rumak told a press conference.In Q4 2013 ... [Published Belta - May 07 2013]

Entities: Belarus, Chisinau, Bryansk

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

New Polish channel increases reach

The new Polish news and information-based channel Telewizja Republika is being made available to cable and DTH subscribers from today (May 6). Speaking to the local press, its head Piotr Barelkowski said that cable would increase its viewership by one ... [Published Broadband TV News - May 06 2013]

Entities: Cyfrowy Polsat SA, Smolensk

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Russia to re-commission 3 nuclear subs

Russia’s Navy will re-commission three nuclear-powered submarines currently undergoing maintenance by the end of 2013.A Russian Navy spokesman said on Tuesday that the nuclear K-140 Smolensk attack submarine, which has been under repair since 2011, will ... [Published Press tv - May 02 2013]

Entities: Nuclear, Russian Navy, Russia, Smolensk

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Three Russian Nuke Subs to Be Recommissioned in 2013

Three nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy currently under maintenance will be recommissioned by 2014, a Navy spokesman told journalists Tuesday.The K-410 Smolensk cruise missile submarine, which is undergoing repairs since 2011, will resume its ... [Published Naval Open Source INTelligence - May 01 2013]

Entities: Cruise Missile, Russian Navy, US Pacific Fleet, Tomsk, Smolensk

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

KATYN 2. Russia's terrorists used highly explosive RDX and HMX to blow up Poland's presidential plane

A Polish weekly Do Rzeczy reported on new developments around the Russian terrorist attack on April 10, 2010 near the Russian-occupied Polish city of Smolensk in eastern Poland. In an article by a renowned Polish journalist Cezary Gmyz, entitled "These ... [Published Kavkaz-Center - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: HMX, Smolensk, Terrorists, Russia

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Smolensk court starts hearing theft of bank cards from deceased Polish delegation

SMOLENSK. April 23 (Interfax) - The Smolensk Garrison Military Court will have a pretrial conference on Tuesday with regard to four servicemen accused of stealing bank cards from Polish presidential delegation members who died in an air crash near Smolensk ... [Published Interfax - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Smolensk, Deceased, Pretrial Conference, Tupolev Tu-154

Quotes

"The experimental snapshots, combining documentation of daily life with a fine-art are very different to the images of the region disseminated through Soviet propaganda.”"

Behind The Iron Curtain: Rare Photographic Artworks From The Former Soviet Union (PICTURES) [Published Huffington Post UK - May 14 2013]

"My friends at school sometimes ask me if I remember my Russian," Peter said. "I've forgotten a lot of it but it comes back to me sometimes."

International adoptions: slow, expensive, rewarding [Published Individual.com - May 13 2013]

"Not one, but several explosions caused the fall-down to many pieces from the Tupolev airplane - this was indicated by Prof. Grzegorz Szuladzinski, an expert in the Polish Parliamentary Committee for Investigation of the Smolensk Disaster headed by MP Antoni Macierewicz According to Prof. Szuladzinski, it is evidenced by the nature of the spread of the debris."

Russian terrorists killed Poland's President in a series of explosions [Published Kavkaz-Center - May 13 2013]

"The following happened in Smolensk."

There is overwhelming evidence that Polish presidential plane was blown up by Russian terrorists [Published Kavkaz-Center - May 10 2013]

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Three Russian Nuke Subs to Be Recommissioned in... [Published Naval Open Source INTelligence - May 01 2013] Three nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy currently under maintenance will be recommissioned by 2014, a Navy spokesman told journalists Tuesday.The K-410 Smolensk cruise missile submarine, which is undergoing repairs since 2011, will resume its ...
Video: Massive geyser erupts in Russian parking... [Published Autoblog - Apr 13 2013] Filed under: Etc. , Videos Cameras in Russia seem to capture everything from fiery meteors to crazy crashes . The latest video comes from a camera mounted high above the main square in Smolensk, overlooking a busy parking lot on what appears ...
Russian Air Force Readies for Massive Drills [Published Naval Open Source INTelligence - Mar 20 2013] More than 70 aircraft and some 1,000 troops will be deployed in a series of tactical drills in preparation for a large-scale exercise next week in northwest Russia, military officials said on Tuesday.Preparations for the exercise, codenamed Ladoga-2013, ...
Liveblogging World War II: March 8, 1943 [Published Brad DeLong - Mar 08 2013] Boris Gorbachevsky and the rest of the Red Army fail to trap the Nazi Ninth Army in the Rzhev Salient:After the liberation of Rzhev, our forces kept moving forward, pursuing the Germans as they withdrew from the Rzhev salient. We didn`t have time to stop ...
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