| Bulgarian President Snubs Yalta Summit over Tymoshenko Case |
Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, has announced that he is canceling his participation in the meeting of Heads of State from Central Europe to be held in Yalta, Russia. The information was reported Friday by the Bulgarian "Trud" (Labor) daily, citing the Russian online edition "Svodka." ...
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Ukraine Rejects Putin’s Offer For Yulia V. Tymoshenko |
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday said Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was welcome to receive medical treatment in Russia.
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dagestan Hit by Deadly Blasts |
Two powerful blasts near Makhachkala on Thursday killed as many as 20 people and wounded 30 others near a police post, news media reported.
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| Leaving Presidency, Russia’s Medvedev Fights for Relevance |
The announcement that Vladimir V. Putin would return as president dealt a heavy blow to Mr. Medvedev’s profile, suggesting that he meekly stepped away from a position he badly wanted.
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| Russia says preemptive strike on NATO missile system is possible |
A top Russian military official says that if the U.S.-led missile defense project in Europe continues as planned, Moscow would not rule out attacking it. MOSCOW — Russia may consider a preemptive strike on a missile defense system in Europe if the U.S.-led NATO project continues as planned, a top official said Thursday.
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| Russia says preemptive strike on NATO missile system is possible |
A top Russian military official says that if the U.S.-led missile defense project in Europe continues as planned, Moscow would not rule out attacking it. MOSCOW — Russia may consider a preemptive strike on a missile defense system in Europe if the U.S.-led NATO project continues as planned, a top official said Thursday.
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| Facebook's IPO: who gets rich? |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The rich are going to get richer when Silicon Valley's biggest IPO starts trading. Facebook is only getting about half -- or $5.6 billion -- of the roughly $10.6 billion it plans to raise via a mega IPO. The other half, or about $4.9 billon, is going to a handful of insiders -- many Silicon Valley notables. Chief among them are co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, venture firm Accel Partners, early investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Russian tycoon Yuri Milner's DST, and investment bank Goldman Sachs. ...
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| Russia threatens preemptive strike over planned US missile shield |
Russia's chief of defense staff reportedly warned Thursday that his country was prepared to use "destructive force preemptively" to stop the United States from creating a missile-defense system in Europe.
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| Russian General Threatens ‘Pre-emptive’ Attacks |
Russian officials have said previously that the anti-missile sites could become targets in the event of war, but the threat of a pre-emptive attack on sites in Eastern Europe was new.
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| Nokia's 41-megapixel camera phone launches this month |
 Nokia on Wednesday announced that its 41-megapixel camera-equipped 808 PureView smartphone will begin rolling out later this month in Russia, India and additional unnamed markets. Nokia unveiled the impressive camera phone in February during the annual Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, and BGR took a hands-on look at the device during the show. While a 41-megapixel sensor coupled with Carl Zeiss optics place the handset in a league of its own, the 808 PureView is powered by the Symbian operating system, which Nokia is currently in the process of dumping in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone. "PureView has completely raised the bar on imaging performance for the whole smartphone industry â€" and Nokia is not stopping here," Nokia
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