The latest: Russia Starts Testing Bird Flu Vaccine on Humans

30.05.2006
Russia Starts Testing Bird Flu Vaccine on Humans
Clinical tests of bird flu vaccine are starting in Russia on 240 human volunteers. The tests are expected to take five weeks.

30.05.2006
Wife Joins Khodorkovsky in Prison
The wife of Russia’s jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky began an extended visit to her husband in prison in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, Maxim Dbar, a spokesman for Khodorkovsky’s legal campaign, said.

30.05.2006
Russia’s Petrova Ousted at French Open as Myskina, Kirilenko Advance
Reigning champion Justine Henin-Hardenne and two-time runner-up Martina Hingis posted first-round wins, while previously hot Russian Nadia Petrova suffered a stunning setback.

30.05.2006
Villagers Blame Radioactive Pollution for 2-Headed Calf Birth
A calf with two heads has been born in a Siberian village near a nuclear plant that suffered an explosion 13 years ago.

30.05.2006
Putin, Bush Call for International Efforts to Solve Iran Issue
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George Bush have, in a telephone conversation, called for the further development of international efforts to settle the Iranian nuclear issue.

30.05.2006
Volgograd Mayor Detained in Gross Embezzlement Case
Yevgeniy Ishchenko, the mayor of the Russian city of Volgograd was detained on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into gross embezzlement at the city communal services enterprise.

30.05.2006
Solzhenitsyn Joins in Criticism of Western Human Rights Norms
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for many years a dissident against Soviet communism, has defended an Orthodox church-sponsored document calling for a new concept of human rights to counter Western notions of freedom, which are said to lack “moral norms”.

30.05.2006
Ukraine Team Promised Quality Sex if They Reach World Cup Semis
Ukraine’s players have been promised quality time with their wives if they reach the World Cup semi-finals.

30.05.2006
Russian Art Sales in London to Reap $51 Million
Three London auction houses are offering 19th and 20th century Russian art worth as much as $51 million this week, a month after New York sales broke records.

30.05.2006
Young Armenian’s Killing Near Moscow May Be Race-Related
Prosecutors have opened a hate crime investigation into the fatal stabbing of an Armenian teenager at a Moscow suburban train station, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said.

30.05.2006
Russian Muslims Voice Support of Iran
Head of the Council for Russian Muftis Ravil Gainutdin has said that both Russian Muslim clerics and ordinary Muslims support the Iranian stance on global issues, especially on Palestine and on its own peaceful nuclear activities.

30.05.2006
Russia to Remove Enriched Uranium From 17 Countries by 2013
Russia announced today that by 2013 it would repatriate the enriched uranium from reactors which the USSR set up in 17 countries, as part of the Global Threat Reduction Inititative (GTRI). The 17 countries, which possess a total of 20 Soviet-era nuclear reactors, have all agreed to participate in the initiative.

30.05.2006
Russian Driver Drags Policeman Along the Highway in Road Rage
Threatened with a ticket, a Russian motorist trapped a traffic policeman’s hand in his car window, then drove off with the officer attached.

30.05.2006
27 Per Cent of Russians Believe NATO Is Enemy — Poll
About one third of the respondents (27 per cent) believe that Russia is an enemy of NATO.

30.05.2006
We Must Have Street Named After Boris Yeltsin — Citizens of Yekaterinburg
The idea of immortalizing the name of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been put forward by the citizens of his native city — Yekaterinburg.