SpyLOG
23/5/2013 17:16
RIA Novosti

World

Main News of June 1

Topic: Top stories of the day

Main news
23:59 01/06/2012
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia is not supplying arms to Syria which can be used against protesters, Russian President Vladmir Putin said

* Russia’s largest state-controlled oil company Rosneft denied having ever given consideration to buying out BP’s 50 percent stake in its TNK-BP joint venture in Russia, Rosneft President Igor Sechin said

* Britain and the Scandinavian countries have expressed an interest in deliveries of Russian gas via the Nord Stream pipeline system in the Baltic, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during talks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel

* Russian billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov will not run for Moscow mayor in 2015, his press service said on Friday, denying earlier media reports

* Britain is risking the safety of the Russian delegation at the London Olympics by refusing to cooperate with Russia's security services in the run-up to the event, their director Alexander Bortnikov has said

* A Russian rocket successfully put the U.S. Intelsat 19 telecoms satellite into orbit, following a seaborne launch, Russian space officials said

WORLD

* Conditions of imprisonment for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout have been softened and he will be transferred to medium-security prison in Marion, Illinois, his lawyer Albert Dayan said

* President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for his earlier inadvertent reference to the erroneous term "Polish death camp"

* Stock markets dived across the world due to a combination of weak labor market statistics from the U.S., China and the EU and oil prices fall

* Irish voters have backed the EU fiscal pact, early unofficial results showed, The Irish Times said

* Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the incident at a mobile border checkpoint in south-eastern Kazakhstan where 15 bodies have been found was a terrorist attack

* Ukrainan President Viktor Yanukovich signed into law a bill banning smoking and tobacco advertising at Euro 2012 stadiums

* The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential runoff, Mohammed Morsi, has accepted the Charter of National Convent, a declaration drafted by representatives of Egypt’s liberal political forces to ensure broad national representation in any future government, local media reported on Friday, quoting Morsi'e election campaign staff

* Three Serbs and one KFOR soldier were injured in clashes in northern Kosovo

* Ukrainian police have arrested four suspects over bomb attacks that injured dozens in Dnepropetrovsk last month, the country’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Pshonka, said

* A Finnish professor at the University of Copenhagen has been given a five month jail sentence in Denmark for cooperation with Russian secret services, the Copenhagen Post said

  • Add to blog
  • Send to friend
  • Share

Add to blog

You may place this material on your blog by copying the link.

Publication code:

Preview:

Send by e-mail

All fields are required!


External partners
Add comments Add comments
Leave a comment
Registration
Password recovery |




    Popular tags

    Moscow Russia Sochi Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin CIA China South Korea North Korea Ban Ki-moon Sergei Lavrov United States Washington Chechnya Syria Bashar al-Assad Barack Obama John Kerry Tamerlan Tsarnaev Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
    All tags
    Рейтинг@Mail.ru  Rambler's Top100
    RIA Novosti
    Agency News
    Agency Today
    Photoservice
    Feedback
    Reference
    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    Products and services
    Terms of Use
    Privacy policy
    Contacts
    Partners
    © 2013  RIA Novosti
    Some material may be inappropriate for children under 12