Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Gazprom Objects to European Antitrust Inquiry
The Russian gas export monopoly said that it would strongly contest an antitrust investigation and insisted that its pricing practices were in line with the rest of the industry.


World Briefing | Europe: Police Convoy Is Attacked in a Russian Republic
Five people died and at least one was wounded when a police convoy came under attack on Wednesday in the volatile southern Russian republic of Ingushetia.


Russia's Putin takes to sky to lead flight of cranes
Russian President Vladimir Putin took his love of wildlife to new heights Wednesday by flying with endangered cranes to help lead them on a migration route.


Putin Pulls Off His Latest Feat: Flying With Migratory Birds
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia piloted a motorized hang glider over an Arctic wilderness area while guiding a flock of migratory birds toward their winter habitat as part of an operation called “The Flight of Hope.”


Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's Putin, human crane
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, may soon be taking his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes - to lead them on a migration route. Putin has communed with wild animals several times as part of an effort to create the image of a clean-living, nature-loving leader in 12 years in power. This time around, according to Russian media reports, he will don a white costume and pilot a hang glider, leading cranes through the air in a project to help introduce birds born in captivity to the wild. ...


Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's Putin, human crane
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, may soon be taking his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes - to lead them on a migration route. Putin has communed with wild animals several times as part of an effort to create the image of a clean-living, nature-loving leader in 12 years in power. This time around, according to Russian media reports, he will don a white costume and pilot a hang glider, leading cranes through the air in a project to help introduce birds born in captivity to the wild. ...


Beaked Putin to fly with cranes on hang-glider
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly planning to put on a fake beak and fly a motorized hang-glider to lead a flock of endangered young Siberian white cranes on part of their migration to Asia.


U.S. Open Show Court Schedules
Maria Sharapova (3), Russia, vs. Marion Bartoli (11), France, comp. of susp. match


Gazprom shares down as EU opens antitrust probe
MOSCOW (AP) -- Shares in Russian gas giant Gazprom are down 1.5 percent, the biggest drop in five weeks, on news it is the subject of an EU antitrust investigation....


Hulk says move to Russia won't hurt Brazil hopes
SAO PAULO (AP) -Striker Hulk doesn't believe his transfer from FC Porto to Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg will affect his spot with the Brazilian national team.